Artist:
Wifredo Lam
Artwork:
The Warrior (Personnage Avec Lezard)
Size:
72.1 x 82.6 cm
Medium:
Oil on burlap
Creation year:
1947
Category:
Paintings
Provenance:
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; Studio Bellini, Milan; Private Collection, Milan; Christie's, New York, November 20, 2002, lot 22; Acquired at the previous sale by the present owner
Exhibition history:
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Wifredo Lam, April 20 - May 8, 1948 San Francisco Museum of Art, New Directions in Modern Painting, August 1 - September 17, 1950, no. 14; Milan, Studio Bellini, Panorama 6, November - December 1969, n.p. (illustrated); New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Wifredo Lam and his Contemporaries 1938 - 1952, December 1992 - April 1993, p. 43 (installation view illustrated)
Phillips New York
Date:
2019-11-13
Lot Number:
106
Low Estimate:
$300000
[-16%]
High Estimate:
$500000
[-50%]
Hammer Price:
$250000
Sold For:
$312500