TITLE: Emblèm
DATE: 1952
MEDIUM: Color Lithograph on paper
DIMENSIONS: 14 ⅞ x 22 ⅜ inches
EDITION: 151/200
DESCRIPTION: As its title indicates, this work uses the idea of an emblem. However, instead of a classic European-style emblem, we find in this work by Lam a representation closer to primitivism, Negritude, Afro-Cuban history, and ethnicity and the religious practice of Santería. The figures are on a dark brown background. The figures are black and sienna. Some white details appear as a result of spaces that were not filled with color.
PROVENANCE: C.G. Sloan & Company, Rockville, MD 20852, Auction Number 858, March 2, 1996, Lot 763.
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY: No Certificate. Tonneau-Ryckelynck, Dominique. Wifredo Lam: Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié. Catalogue Raisonné, Musée de Gravelines, Paris, France, page 45. N.5201.
LITERATURE: Tonneau-Ryckelynck, Dominique. Wifredo Lam: Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié. Catalogue Raisonné, Musée de Gravelines, Paris, France, page 45. N.520.
COMMENTS: Printed by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1976. This print is in the MoMA New York Collection.
CONDITION: Good
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