Wifredo Lam Art

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...

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...

Artist: Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 - 1982) Title: Untitled - I Year: 1957 Medium: Crayon and Pastel on Paper, signed and dated l.r. Paper Size: 22 in. x 26.5 in. (55.88 cm x 67.31...

This original watercolor on paper by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam is in excellent condition and measures 12"h x 10"w. It is signed lower right and dated 1961. It bears a simple gold fr...

ED: 22/60 Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane

Personages is print realized by Wifredo Lam (Sagua La Grande 1902 - Paris 1982) Colored etching on paper. Hand-signed and numbered, edition of XXI/XXV lower in pencil.

This exquisite lithograph by Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), titled Personnages dans la nuit (Figures in the Night), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXVe Annee N°22, Noel 1963, o...

Etching on vélin cuve de Rives paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Feuilles éparses, 1965. Published and printed by Louis B...

This exquisite lithograph by Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), titled Figure Ailee (Winged Figure), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 55-56, originates from the 1953 edition published by...

Aquatint etching on Goya paper limited edition in 99 exemplars in cardinal numbers plus 11 from A to M Current exemplar numbered as: 27/99 paper size: 50,5 x 71,5 cm Very good condit...

Etching and aquatint realized by Lam in 1967. Hand signed in pencil. Artist proof printed by Giorgio Upiglio. Very good condition.

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1963 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (312 x 235 mm). Not signed.

This exquisite lithograph by Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), titled Personnage (Figure), from the album XXe siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXXVIe Annee, No. 42, originat...

This exquisite lithograph by Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), titled Les Oiseaux Voiles (The Veiled Birds), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 55-56, originates from the 1953 edition pub...

Untitled is a lithograph realized y the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam (Sagua la Grande, 1902 - Paris, 1982). This color lithograph on wove paper, was edited by the French magazine "XXe...

Coloured etching and aquatint, edited in 1979. Limited edition of 130 copies , numbered as 81/130 in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner. Paper...

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 × ...

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...

Artist: Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 - 1982) Title: Orsa Maggiore Year: 1976 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: X/XXV Paper Size: 31...

Provenance: Cernuda Art, Coral Gables Private Collection, Los Angeles

Wifredo Lam (7304) Les Loas petro enfantent dans la danse, 1973 Lithograph EC 25 x 19 in

This exquisite lithograph by Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), titled La Femme Cheval (The Horse Woman), from the album XXe siecle, Numero special, Wifredo Lam, Nouvelle serie, XLIe Annee, No...

This exquisite lithograph by Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), titled Totem, from the album XXe siecle, Numero special, Wifredo Lam, Nouvelle serie, XLIe Annee, No. 52, originates from the 19...

Untitled is a modern artwork realized by Wifredo Lam in 1970s. Colored lithograph on paper. Hand monogrammed in the right lower margin with original dry stamp by Galleria Nuovo Sag...

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 wit...

Double Personage Color lithograph, 1975 (?) Unsigned (as issued) Edition: Large Edition Limited, (estimated to be approximately 2000) Published in: XXe Siecle, No. 52, Juin 1979 Published: G. di San Lazzaro Printer: Mourlot Imprimeur, Paris, France Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelynck L7513 Condition: Excellent, fresh colors Traces of glue residue along margin edge where it was bound in the book Image/sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches Wilfredo Lam (1902-1982) Biography Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, on December 8, 1902. He was the eighth child born to Lam-Yam―born in Canton around 1820, an immigrant to the Americas in 1860―and to Ana Serafina Catilla―born in 1862 in Cuba of mixed African and Spanish ancestry. The luxuriant nature of Sagua la Grande had a strong impact on Lam from early childhood. One night in 1907, he was startled by the strange shadows cast on the wall of his bedroom of a bat in flight. He often recounted the incident as his first magnificent awakening to another dimension to existence. In 1916, Lam and part of his family settled in Havana. He was enrolled in the Escuela Profesional de Pintura y Escultura, Academia de San Alejandro, where he remained a student until 1923. This period, with exhibitions at the Salón de Bellas artes, was determinant in his choice to become a painter. In 1923, the municipality of Sagua la Grande awarded him a grant to study in Europe and by the autumn of that year, at the age of twenty-one, he left the country for Spain. His time in Spain―initially intended as a short stay on his way to Paris―lasted 14 years. In Madrid, he was exposed to the ideas and movements of modern art. He spent long hours at the Archeological Museum and the Prado. He studied the great masters of Spanish painting, Velázquez and Goya, but felt particularly drawn to the works of Bosch and Bruegel the Elder. In 1931, his first wife, Eva (Sébastiana Piriz) and their son Wilfredo Victor died of tuberculosis. The terrible suffering he endured led to numerous paintings of mother and child. Lam found solace in the company of his Spanish friends and made contact with several political organizations. In 1936, with the help of his friend Faustino Cordón, he joined the Republican forces in their fight against Franco. He designed anti-Fascist posters and took part in the struggle by working in a munitions factory. The violence of the struggle inspired his painting La Guerra Civil. In 1938, Lam left Spain for Paris. Shortly before leaving, he met Helena Holzer, who would become his wife in 1944. His meeting Picasso in his studio on the Rue des Grands Augustins proved decisive. Picasso introduced his new “cousin” to his painter, poet and art critic friends, Braque, Matisse, Miró, Léger, Eluard, Leiris, Tzara, Kahnweiler, Zervos. Lam also met Pierre Loeb, the owner of the Galerie Pierre in Paris, which hosted Lam’s first solo exhibition in 1939. Shortly before the Germans arrived, Lam left Paris for Bordeaux and then Marseille, where many of his friends, for the most part surrealists, had gathered around André Breton in the Villa Air Bel: Pierre Mabille, René Char, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Oscar Domínguez, André Masson, Benjamin Péret. In the Villa Air Bel, a meeting place for creativity and experimentation, Lam worked and produced, most notably, a series of ink drawings that set the tone for what would become his signature style of hybrid figures, a vocabulary he would develop more fully during his years in Cuba from 1941 to 1947. In January and February 1941, Lam illustrated Breton’s poem Fata Morgana which was censored by the Vichy government. On March 25, Lam and Helena Holzer embarked on the “Capitaine Paul Lemerle” headed for Martinique, in the company of some 300 other artists and intellectuals―André Breton and Claude Lévi-Strauss among them. Upon arrival, the passengers were interred at Trois Îles. It was during this forced passage in Martinique and before leaving for Cuba that Lam and Aimé Césaire met for the first time to become life-long friends. Newly settled in his native land after almost twenty years, Lam delved deeper into his artistic investigations, finding nourishment for his ideas in the surroundings of his childhood and youth. His sister Eloisa, whom he was closest to, explained to him in much detail the workings of Afro-Cuban rituals and he began attending ritual ceremonies with some of his friends. This contact with Afro-Cuban culture brought new impetus to his art. He painted over one hundred canvases, most notably La Jungla, making the year 1942 his most productive of this period. Over the next few years, a number of exhibitions followed in the United States, at the Institute of Modern Art of Boston, at the MoMA of New York, at the Galerie Pierre Matisse, where La Jungla was presented and created a scandal. In 1946, Lam and Helena travel to Haiti and attend voodoo ceremonies in the company of Pierre Mabille and André Breton. Talking about his experience in Haiti, Lam said, “It is often assumed that my work took its final form in Haiti, but my stay there, like the trips I made to Venezuela, Colombia or to the Brazilian Mato Grosso only broadened its scope. I could have been a good painter from the School of Paris, but I felt like a snail out of its shell. What really broadened my painting is the presence of African poetry.” Picasso_Lam_Vallauris_1954_vignette Wifredo Lam et Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, 1954 Lam then went on to New York where he renewed contact with Marcel Duchamp and made new acquaintances: Jeanne Reynal, James Johnson Sweeney, Arshile Gorky, John Cage, Roger Wilcox, Mercedes Matter, Ian Hugo, Jesse Fernández, John Cage, Sonia Sekula and Yves Tanguy. By the end of the 1940s, Lam divided his time between Europe, Havana and New York, where they stayed with Pierre and Teeny Matisse...

Untitled  is an artwork realized by the Cuban Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam (1902-1982). This is a color lithograph on wove paper, properly edited b...

Untitled  is a lithograph realized by the Cuban Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam (1902-1982). This is a color lithograph on wove paper, properly edited...

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...

Wifredo Lam (7306) Multiples des membres des loa, 1973 Lithograph EC 25 x 19 in

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Wilfredo Lam Lune Haute, from Pleni Luna 1974 Lithograph 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. Edition of 262 Pencil signed and numbered Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbau...

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...

Untitled is a modern artwork realized by Wifredo Lam in 1970s Mixed colored lithograph. Handmonogrammed on the right lower margin with original dry stamp by Galleria Nuovo Sagittar...

Medium: original color etching. Printed in 1965 for the "Paroles Peintes II" portfolio, and published in Paris by Lazar-Vernet. This magnificent, rich impression is one of 150 printe...

Wifredo Lam (19123) Pleni Luna Lithograph in pearl japan paper 1974 25 x 19 in

Lithograph on paper. Hand signed in pen. Artist Proof. Very good condition.

Untitled is a modern artwork realized by Wifredo Lam in 1970s. Colored lithograph on paper. Hand monogrammed in the right lower margin with original dry stamp by Galleria Nuovo Sag...

Wifredo Lam (7304) Les Loas petro enfantent dans la danse, 1973 Lithograph EC 25 x 19 in

Untitled is a contemporary artwork realized by Wifredo Lam. Mixed colored lithograph after a painting of the artist. Monogrammed in pencil in the lower margin. Numbered on the low...

Wifredo Lam (7301) Aizan ils ont les jambes de secretaires, 1973 Lithograph EC 25 x 19 in

Coloured etching and aquatint, edited in 1979. Limited edition of 130 copies , numbered as 92/130 in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner. Paper...

Wifredo Lam (7301) Aizan ils ont les jambes de secretaires, 1973 Lithograph EC 25 x 19 in

Wifredo Lam Pleni Luna Demoiselle blasonnee, 1974 Lithograph in pearl japan paper Ed. XXXXV of L 25 x 19 in

Modern artwork realized by Wifredo Lam in 1970s. Colored lithograph on paper. Hand monogrammed in the right lower margin with original dry stamp by Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan...

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...

Wifredo Lam (7303) Taureau trois graines s est laisee pousser les dents, 1973 Lithograph EC 25 x 19 in

Wifredo Lam Pleni Luna Innocence 1974 Lithograph in pearl japan paper Ed. XXXXV of L 25 x 19 in

Wifredo Lam Pleni Luna Montee de seves 1974 Lithograph in pearl japan paper Ed. XXXXV of L 25 x 19 in

Wifredo Lam Pleni Luna Clairiere, 1974 Lithograph in pearl japan paper Ed. XXXXV of L 25 x 19 in

Wifredo Lam Lames de Lam Plate VI, 1977 Etching and aquatint in colors Ed 7 of 99 13 x 15 in

Wifredo Lam Pleni Luna Soeur de la gazelle, 1974 Lithograph in pearl japan paper Ed. XXXXV of L 25 x 19 in

Wifredo Lam Bird and Spirit Figure, 1967 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered / 300 On Arches vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Tonneau...

Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 - 1982) - L'Antechambre de La Nature, Year: 1966, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 10.75 x 5.75 inches, Size: 13.5 x 8.75 in. (34.29 x 22.23 cm), Description: F...

El Ultimo Viaje Del Buque Fantasma by Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902–1982) Year: 1976 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of EA XIII/XX Size: 30 x 21.75 in. (76.2 x 55.25 cm)

This artwork titled, El Ultimo Viaje Del Buque Fantasma, 1976, created to honor Gabriel Garcia Marquez writing of the same title, is an original color l...

Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 - 1982) - Cigognes Ciseaux Gigognes (Nesting Scissor Storks), Portfolio: Phases no 11, Year: 1966, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 1000, Size: 10.75 x 16.5 in....

This artwork titled "Demoiselle Blasonee from the suite, Pleni Luna" 1974, is an original color lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam, 1902-1982. It is...

Wifredo Lam Lames de Lam Plate I, 1977 Etching and aquatint in colors Ed 7 of 99 13 x 15 in

Aquatint etching on Goya paper limited edition in 99 exemplars in cardinal numbers plus 11 from A to M Current exemplar numbered as: 27/99 paper size: 50,5 x 71,5 cm Very good condit...

This artwork titled "Innocence" from the suite, Pleni Luna, 1974, is an original color lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam, 1902-1982. It is hand sig...