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Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Wifredo Lam

Mujer con pájaro (Femme aux oiseaux)

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November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

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Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Wifredo Lam

1902 - 1982

Mujer con pájaro (Femme aux oiseaux)


signed Wifredo Lam and dated 55 (lower right) 

oil and charcoal on canvas

28 7/8 by 23 1/2 in.

73.2 by 59.8 cm.

Executed in 1955. 

Private Collection, Caracas
Estudio Actual, Caracas (acquired from the above by 1976) 
CDS Gallery, New York (acquired from the above) 
Acquired from the above in November 1982 by the present owner
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona & Paris, 1976, no. 454, p. 237, illustrated 
Lou Laurin-Lam & Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 55.07, p. 454, illustrated in color 
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Lam, 1955 
Caracas, Estudio Actual, Masters of the Americas, 1981 
New York, CDS Gallery, South American Masters, 1983 
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Wifredo Lam, 1992-93 p. 125 (Madrid) & p. 109 (Barcelona), illustrated in color 
Milwaukee, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art; Miami, Miami Art Museum; Long Beach, Museum of Latin American Art; St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum, Wifredo Lam in North America, 2007-09, no. 54, p. 128, illustrated in color 
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from The Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 32, pp. 110 & 240, illustrated in color