Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Wifredo Lam

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November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

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Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Wifredo Lam

1902 - 1982


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signed Wifredo Lam and dated 3-9-42 (lower right)

gouache on paper laid down on canvas

40⅛ by 30⅜ in.

102 by 77.1 cm.

Executed on 3 September 1942.

H. H. Benitez, Saarbrücken
Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Miami (acquired from the above)
Marta Gutiérrez Fine Arts, Miami (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in 1984 by the present owner 
Lou Laurin-Lam and Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, vol. I, Paris, 1996, no. 42.15, p. 295, illustrated 
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, pl. 41, p. 121, illustrated in color