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Was Wifredo Lam a Surrealist?
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Yes, Wifredo Lam was a Surrealist. After meeting André Breton, the author of the Surrealist Manifesto, the Cuban artist became highly involved with the Surrealist movement. He was also a member of the movement Négritude. Lam’s style resulted from his extensive travels, featuring graffiti-like flourishes with clear Cubist influences in a Surrealist mood. On 1stDibs, shop a variety of Wifredo Lam art.
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Untitled Composition (Cuban Modernism, Afro-Caribbean Art)
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Kansas City, MO
Wifredo Lam
Untitled Composition
from "Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona at Redfern Gallery, London"
Original Color Lithograph
Year: 1979
Edition: 100
Size: 10 x 7.325 inches (25.4 × ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
$460 Sale Price
41% Off
Untitled - Lithograph by Wifredo Lam - 1970s
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a modern artwork realized by Wifredo Lam in 1970s.
Mixed colored lithograph, realized after one of the Artist's paintings.
Hand monogrammed in the right lower margin wi...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tricks
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Genève, GE
ED: 22/60
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Montee de Seve, from the suite Pleni Luna.
By Wifredo Lam
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Montee de Seve, from the suite, Pleni Luna" 1974, is an original color lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by Cuban artist Wilfredo La...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wifredo Lam, Figure, from XXe siecle, 1974
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), titled Personnage (Figure), from the album XXe siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXXVIe Annee, No. 42, originat...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate X
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate X
Color lithograph, 1976
Signed in pencil lower right corner (see photo)
From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma
(The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam
Edition: 99 (6/99)
This one of an edition of 99 from the delixe edition of the book of the same title
There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page
Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona
Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona
The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story)
Sheet size: 29 7/8 x 22 inches
Condition: Very fresh colors and condition
Slight scuffing verso from previous hinges
Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelnck CR360
About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez:
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,575 Sale Price
30% Off