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Wifredo Lam

L’Eau solide

Auction Closed

May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Wifredo Lam

(1902 - 1982)


L’Eau solide

signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1945 (lower right)

oil and charcoal on canvas

34 ½ by 31 ¾ in.   87.6 by 106 cm.

Executed in 1945.

Joseph Urvater, Paris

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above circa 1971)

Private Collection, Switzerland

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery; City of York Art Gallery and London, Tate Gallery, Paintings from the Urvater Collection,1958, no. 52 

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wifredo Lam, 1967, no. 26, illustrated 

New York, Pace Gallery, Wifredo Lam: The Imagination at Work, 2021, p. 86, n.p., illustrated in color 

Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona and Paris, 1976, no. 406, p. 234, illustrated 

Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona and Paris, 1989, no. 438, p. 254, illustrated 

Lou Laurin-Lam and Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam, Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 45.15, p. 371, illustrated