Wifredo Lam was an Afro-Cuban artist best known for his unique Surrealist aesthetic that combined European artistic movements with the imagery of his native country.
“I responded always to the presence of factors that emanated from our history and our geography, tropical flowers, and black culture,” Lam once said.
In one of his most famous paintings, The Jungle (1943), these various influences are melded together, onto a single large-scale canvas. Born Wifredo Oscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla on December 8, 1902 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, the painter moved to Madrid, Spain in 1923 to study with Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, who had been the teacher of famed Surrealist Salvador Dalí.
Lam moved to Paris after seeing an exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work in Spain. Having arrived in the French capital, he introduced himself to Picasso who subsequently showed Lam his collection of African and Oceanic artworks. The two artists' interaction figured heavily in Lam’s work throughout the remainder of his career. He died on September 11, 1982 in Paris, France at the age of 79.
Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.
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Wifredo Lam Cuban Artist Original Watercolor, 1961
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Phoenix, AZ
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...
Paint
$5,000
H 43 in W 56 in
La Vie Est Belle - Original Colorful Abstract Expressionism Painting on Canvas
By Bruce Rubenstein
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The paintings of Bruce Rubenstein seamlessly marry sophistication with affordability. His original art merges the creative attitudes of the two distinct art hot spots of New York and...
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,590
H 37.41 in W 37.41 in D 1.58 in
Sepia Murmur by Gabriela Azar Schreiner. Contemporary abstract Painting
By Gabriela Azar Schreiner
Located in Mentone, AU
This painting is unstretched and unframed. It will be carefully rolled and shipped in a tube. "Creating large-scale abstract paintings that evoke tranquility and presence in any spac...
Acrylic
$55,000
H 108 in W 108 in
Phoenix - large, colorful, contemporary, abstract, diptych, acrylic on canvas
By Milly Ristvedt
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Horizontal bars of blue, maroon, cherry red, pink, lemon yellow, burnt orange and green communicate on a soaked sand-coloured ground in the two panels that form this 9-foot square acrylic diptych painting on canvas. The rhythm of the spaces between the short lengths of colour creates a dialogue of movement that leads the eye upwards through the large picture plane. About the inspiration for the work, the artist wrote: "This is one of the rare paintings that I saw clearly in a dream and painted almost exactly as I saw it. It relates back to the four-panel work, Lock-Up (1972), done a couple of months earlier, where I used the physical break between panels as an edge to anchor some colour bars. In Phoenix, some bars are anchored while others float within the larger ground colour." This painting was included in the exhibition catalogue Milly Ristvedt-Handerek: Paintings of a Decade (1979). Milly Ristvedt, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. In Toronto, during the 1960s and 1970s, she was making and exhibiting large-scale paintings alongside a small but defined group of non-figurative painters who, like Ristvedt, had planted...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,285
H 36 in W 24 in
Priceless 1 - Textured Impasto Acrylic Colorful Abstract Painting on Canvas
By Shiri Phillips
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Canvas, Acrylic, Glitter
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
This abstract painting by Michèle Destarac is characterized by a dynamic interplay of texture, gesture, and muted intensity. Thick layers of white and off-white paint dominate the co...
Canvas, Oil
$455
H 16 in W 16 in
Miami Blue - Original Impasto Inspired Cool Tone Textured Abstract Painting
By Shiri Phillips
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Canvas, Acrylic, Glitter
Far Away (Abstract Painting)
By Macha Poynder
Located in London, GB
Diptych 165 x 73 cm and 165 x 219 cm (65 x 28.7 in and 65 x 86.2 in) This work will be shipped rolled in a tube. Poynder's method emphasizes gesture, line, color, and space. Physi...
Canvas, Acrylic
$8,600
H 60 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
Aqua Turquoise Green Abstract One, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Lynn
Located in Yardley, PA
Sold unframed. Layered (6 Layers) Gallery Wrapped Cotton Canvas 48 x 60 x 1.5 inches. Use of layering with this piece and applied with a palette knives. The use of the palette knive...
Acrylic
Fanasy with Flowers 155
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 300+ pictures) paper 59x42cm On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Flowers are a smile of ...
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
$1,181
H 19.69 in W 27.56 in D 0.4 in
The Palace Acrylic Painting, Contemporary Style, Hand-Signed, 2010+
By Anna Maria Caboni
Located in Roma, IT
This captivating contemporary acrylic painting by Anna Maria Caboni presents the illuminated façade of an apartment building, where a series of open windows reveal intimate glimpses ...
Acrylic
Keep Going! (Abstract Painting)
By Macha Poynder
Located in London, GB
This work will be shipped rolled in a tube. Poynder's method emphasizes gesture, line, color, and space. Physicality and action are key to her technique. To create her drawings and...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,009
H 35.44 in W 47.25 in D 1.19 in
More Love by Kirsten Jackson, modern contemporary colorful abstract
By Kirsten Jackson
Located in DE
Kirsten Jackson creates vibrant abstract paintings filled with sunny color blocks, showcasing her contemporary and original style. Fiercely independent, this Australian artist aims t...
Varnish, Acrylic
Untitled
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Miami, FL
Wifredo Lam "Untitled", 1974 Charcoal and pastel on paper 20 x 16 in Signed and dedicated by the artist. Provenance: Private Collection (Pablo Gasparini, gift from the artist). Chr...
Charcoal, Pastel, Laid Paper
Sold
H 10.52 in W 5.01 in D 7.01 in
Wifredo Lam - L’Oiseau de feu - nickel brass sculpture limited edition of 500
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Varese, IT
Wifredo Lam ( 1902 – 1982 ) nickel plated brass sculpture limited edition of 500 copies inscribed signature, numbered: 491/500 B sculpture size: 10 1/2 x 5 x 7 in. (26.7 x 12.7 x 17...
Metal, Brass