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Wifredo Lam

L’Eau solide

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May 13, 11:00 PM 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

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

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