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Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Wifredo Lam
Maternité Yoruba
Auction Closed
November 17, 10:26 PM GMT
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Wifredo Lam
1902 - 1982
Maternité Yoruba
signed Wifredo Lam and dated 2-9-42 (lower right)
gouache and charcoal on paper
40 1/4 by 30 in.
102.2 by 76.2 cm.
Executed on 2 September 1942.
Helena Holzer Benitez, Saarbrücken (acquired directly from the artist)
Federico Dumenigo, Miami (acquired from the above)
Marta Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1984
Lou Laurin-Lam & Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 42.71, p. 309, illustrated
New York, Americas Society, Wifredo Lam. A Retrospective of Works on Paper, 1992, no. 37
Barcelona, Fundació La Caixa, Wifredo Lam Obra sobre paper, 1993, no. 49, p. 121, illustrated in color
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from The Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 37, pp. 116 & 240, illustrated in color