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Wifredo Lam

Animal Maïs

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May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

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Property from a Private Collector, Florida

Wifredo Lam

1902 - 1982

Animal Maïs


signed Wifredo Lam and dated 1944 (lower left) 

oil on paper laid down on canvas

19⅜ by 25½ in.

49.2 by 64.8 cm.

Executed in 1944. 

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York 
Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris (acquired from the above) 
Acquired from the above in October 1985 by the present owner 
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Wifredo Lam, Early Works 1942-1951, 1982, no. 2, n.p., illustrated 
Paris, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Wifredo Lam, 1985, n.p., illustrated in color 
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona and Paris, 1976, no. 390, p. 233, illustrated 
Lucien Curzi, "Wifredo Lam: s'aboucher à l'invisible," L'Oeil, Lausanne, October 1985, p. 42, illustrated 
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Barcelona and Paris, 1989, no. 422, p. 253, illustrated 
Lou Laurin-Lam and Eskil Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923-1960, Paris, 1996, no. 44.75, p. 361, illustrated