Live Auction 2054Latin American Sale Evening Session
Wifredo Lam (Cuban 1902-1982)
Lot 4 PROPERTY OF A MIDWEST COLLECTION

Wifredo Lam (Cuban 1902-1982)

Untitled

Closed20 November 2008

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USD 122,500

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Wifredo Lam (Cuban 1902-1982)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam, 1953' (lower right)
oil on linen mounted on masonite
28 x 23¼ in. (71.1 x 59 cm.)
Painted in 1953.

Galerie Colibri, Malmö, Sweden.
Acquired from the above (circa 1953).
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

"I have never created my pictures in terms of a symbolic tradition, but always on the basis of a poetic excitation. I believe in poetry. For me it is the greatest contest of mankind."