Lot 5
  • 5

Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Autorretrato, II
  • gouache on paper mounted on canvas
  • 35 by 24 1/4 in.
  • 89 by 61.5 cm
  • Painted circa 1938.

Provenance

Private Collection, Barcelona
Sale: Christie's, New York, Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, November, 1991, lot 19, illustrated in color

Exhibited

Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, September 29, 1993-December 14, 1993; Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, January 21-March 28, 1993, Wifredo Lam, p. 51, illustrated in color

Literature

Lou Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam, Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, Lausanne, p. 52, illustrated in color; no. 38.01, p. 248, illustrated

Condition

This work on heavy paper has been mounted onto linen. The canvas has relaxed slightly in the corners, but this can successfully be tightened. The condition is very good within the figure. There are a few small losses along the bottom edge associated with old creases in the paper. There are also a few isolated losses to the right and left above the head and in the center of the left side; these are again associated with small creases. (This condition report has been provided courtesy of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.)
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