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Wifredo Lam
La Langue maternelle
signed and dated 20-9-42 (lower right)
gouache on paper laid down on canvas
42 3/8 x 34 5/8 in. ; 107,5 x 88 cm
Executed in 1942.
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Details
signed and dated 20-9-42 (lower right)
42 3/8 x 34 5/8 in. ; 107,5 x 88 cm
Executed in 1942.
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Paris
Sale : Replica Shoes ’s, Paris, Art Impressionniste et Moderne, 4 December 2013, lot 6
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Exhibition
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, LAM, 17 November - 5 December 1942
Literature
Gérard Xuriguéra, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1974, p. 21, illustrated in black and white
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Paris, 1976, no. 322, p. 229, illustrated in black and white
Lucien Curzi, Wifredo Lam, Bologne, 1978, no. 5, p. 8, illustrated in black and white
‘Wifredo Lam’, XXe siècle, no. 52 (special edition), Paris, July 1979, p. 108, illustrated in black and white
Exh. Cat. : Wifredo Lam and his Contemporaries 1938-1952, New York, 1992, p. 33, illustrated in black and white
Lou Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam. Catalogue raisonné of the painted work, vol. I : 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, no. 42.53, p. 305, illustrated in black and white