Wifredo Lam
Sans feu ni loi (Without fire nor law)
Lot Closed
August 5, 06:45 PM GTNN
Estimate
50,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Wifredo Lam
(1902-1982)
Sans feu ni loi (Without fire nor law)
Terracotta and enamel
Diameter: 20¼ in. (51.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower center LAM 1975
Estate no. C-75.112 Unique
Executed in 1975.
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Estate of the artist
Kindly donated by Galerie Gmurzynska
In 1975, Wifredo Lam started working at the Studio Ceramiche San Giorgio in Albisola Mare. At that t.mes ceramics took centre stage in Lam’s artistic production, he plunged into ceramic work with an al most frenetic energy, fascinated by the mineral clay and the art of fire. He eagerly explored all the different facets of the medium, far beyond the canons of conventional pottery.
Albisola Mare with its special climate had been famous for its ceramics already in the Renaissance period and in the 20th century modern artists rediscovered the city, which was then frequented by artists like Lucio Fontana and Asger Jorn. Asger Jorn and Wifredo Lam worked side by side and can be seen in direct comparison to the unique ceramics of Picasso and Chagall.
According to the scholar Lowery Stokes Sims, the Femme-Cheval is an Africanized avatar of female power and beauty: “Through the horse-headed woman, Lam managed to transpose the focus of Surrealism (and Picasso) from the male principle to the female.”
Wifredo Lam’s ceramics have enjoyed in recent years an increased appreciation within Lam’s main oeuvre with the celebrated first solo museum show of the ceramics occuring in 2022 at the French national museum for Asian arts – (Guimet).
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