Wifredo Lam

ORSA MAGGIORE #7506

1975

Lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. From the edition of 100. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonabl...

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Additional images are available upon request. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Edition of 175. All...

Signed and numbered by the artist. Artwork was previously framed and shows signs of aging in the margins from light exposure. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition of 350. ...

Lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by Pierre Alechinsky. Edition of CCC. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All r...

Lithograph, 1967 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and dedicated “To Jacqueline Selz, with all my friendship!” and adorned with a pencil drawing. Edition : 100 ex. 74.50 cm. x 51.50...

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV Color lithograph, 1976 Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos) 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 deluxe 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) Condition: slight yellows (aging) of paper small paper scuffs verso from previous hinges Sheet size: 22 x 29 7/8 inches 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 in which we find this literary genre. Summary of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" (1868): The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, written in 1968, is written in a single great sentence, which tells the surprising and amazing adventure that has changed the existence of a child living in a coastal town with a small port sunny, almost forgotten by civilization. The days are peaceful, the nights are silent and illuminated only by the rotating beacon that, every fifteen seconds, transforms the town into a lunar camp with phosphorescent houses. During one night in March, the boy saw an immense afterlife ship that sails through the seas with all the dead crew and sometimes appears to the living, silently crossing the deserted sea, a huge and unexpected mass whose trajectory suddenly it seems to drift, and then runs aground on the reefs. This cataclysm is accomplished without disturbing the night's silence, and the next day the boy found no traces of the shipwreck and no one believed it, not even his mother. Time passes, and the same shipwreck occurs again, every year, on the same night in March; the adolescent...

Color lithograph, edited in 1970 Limited edition of 125 copies , numbered 59/125 Hand signed by Wifredo Lam in pencil in the lower right margin paper size: 57 x 44.5 cm A copy of th...

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Wilfredo Lam Clairiere, from Pleni Luna 1974 Lithograph 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. Edition of 262 Pencil signed and numbered Accompanied w...