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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2021 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 45C | $****** - ****** | La Réunion (Groupe) |
paintings
179.7 x 120 cm (70.75 x 47.25 in)
tempera and pastel on paper laid down on canvas
signed and dated 'WiLam 42' (lower right); signed and dated again 'WiLam 1942' (on the reverse)
Estate of the artist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Charlottenlund, Ordrupgaard Museum and Høvikkoden, Sonja Henie, Niels Onstad Foundation, Wifredo Lam: Retrospective , Setember-October 1978, p. 25, no. 11 (illustrated, p. 26).
Paris, Artcurial, Centre d'art plastique contemporain, Wifredo Lam. Oeuvres historiques - Oeuvres récentes: peintures, pastels, sculptures, bas-reliefs , 1979 (illustrated in color).
Paris, Artcurial, Centre d'art plastique contemporain, L'Aventure surréaliste autour d'André Breton , May-July 1986, p. 89, no. 149 (illustrated).
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen and Kunstverein Hamburg, Wifredo Lam , July 1988-January 1989, p. 87, no. 21 (illustrated in color, p. 46).
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno and Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, El Surrealismo entre viejo y nuevo mundo , December 1989-April 1990, pp. 165 and 299 (illustrated in color, p. 164).
Barcelona, Fundació "la Caixa," Wifredo Lam, obra sobre paper , January-March 1993, p. 188, no. 39 (illustrated in color, p. 118).
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno; Palma de Mallorca, Fundació “la Caixa” and Barcelona, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Cuba siglo XX, modernidad y sincretismo , April-December 1996, p. 226 (illustrated in color, p. 129).
Strasburg, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Les surréalistes en exil et les débuts de l'école de New York , May-September 2000, pp. 124 and 451 (illustrated in color, p. 125).
Paris, Musée Dapper, Lam Métis , September 2001-January 2002, p. 76 , no. 22 (illustrated in color, p. 45).
Yokohama Museum of Art, Wifredo Lam: The Changing Image, Centennial Exhibition , October 2002-January 2003, p. 178, no. 44 (detail illustrated in color, p. 80; illustrated again in color, p. 81).
L'Isle sur la Sorge, Musée Campredon/Maison René Char, Lam et les poètes , July-October 2005, p. 23 (illustrated in color). Barcelona,
Fundació Joan Miró, Un cos sense limits , October 2007-January 2008, pp. 21, 84, 207 and 235 (illustrated in color, p. 85).
Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Wifredo Lam. Voyages entre Caraïbes et avant-gardes , April-August 2010, p. 69 (illustrated in color, p. 68).
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and Habitation Clément, Le François, Martinique, Aimé Césaire, Lam, Picasso "Nous nous sommes trouvés," March-June 2011 and December 2013-February 2014, p. 26 (illustrated in color).
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College and Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Wifredo Lam: Imagining New Worlds , August 2014-May 2015, p. 15, no. 28 (illustrated in color, p. 119).
L. Laurin-Lam and E. Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, 1923-1960 , Lausanne 1996, vol. I, pp. 80 and 88, no. 42.101 (illustrated in color, p. 81; illustrated again, p. 318).
M. Leiris, Wifredo Lam , Milan 1970, p. 32, no. 28 (illustrated in color).
G. Xuriguéra, Wifredo Lam , Paris 1974, p. 31 (illustrated in color).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam , Barcelona, 1976, p. 254, no. 49 (illustrated, p. 48).
Wifredo Lam: La Jungle , exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1979, no. 3 (illustrated on the exhibition flyer).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam , 2nd edition, Barcelona, 1989, p. 274, no. 49 (illustrated, p. 52).
J. Leenhardt, Lam , Paris, 2009, p. 102 (illustrated in color, p. 102).
A. Kuhlman, Lam: Identitätskonstruktionen und Multikulturalität , Trier, 2013, pp. 34 and 41-42, no. 28 (illustrated, p. 229).
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
La Réunion (Groupe)
signed and dated 'WiLam 42' (lower right); signed and dated again 'WiLam 1942' (on the reverse)
tempera and pastel on paper laid down on canvas
70 ¾ x 47 ¼ in. (180 x 120 cm.)
Painted in 1942
