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Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Femme violette
Auction Closed
November 17, 10:26 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Wifredo Lam
1902 - 1982
Femme violette
signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1938 (lower left)
gouache on paper laid down on panel
38 by 26 1/4 in.
96.7 by 66.7 cm.
Executed in 1938.
Perls Galleries, New York
D. Cantor, Indianapolis (acquired from the above)
CDS Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Lou Laurin-Lam & Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 38.69, p. 454, illustrated
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Crosscurrents of Modernism, Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Matta, 1992, no. 52, p. 194, illustrated
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from The Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 29, pp. 105 & 239, illustrated in color