WILFREDO LAM OIL ON CANVAS ABSTRACT V$39,000
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MEASURMENTS:20"WX25"H FRAMED, MINT CONDITION/"in the style of"Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla, better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture.In 1923, Lam began studying in Madrid under Fernando Ãlvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, the curator of the Museo del Prado and teacher of Salvador DalÃ. In the mornings he would attend his conservative teacher's studio, while he spent his evenings working alongside young, nonconformist painters. At the Prado, he discovered and was awed by the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel I. While Lam's early paintings were in the modernist Spanish tradition, his work soon became more simplified and decorative. Though his dislike for academic conservatism persisted, his time in Spain marked his technical development, in which he began to merge a primitive aesthetic and the traditions of Western composition. It was in Paris that Lam was exposed to conventions of African sculpture. In 1929, he married Eva Piriz, but both she and their young son died in 1931 of tuberculosis; it is likely that this personal tragedy contributed to the dark nature of his work./Private collection, no documentation.
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WILFREDO LAM OIL ON CANVAS ABSTRACT V$39,000
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