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Ils ont le cou des échassiers
Wifredo Lam
Print - 65 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$964
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Taureau-trois-graines s'est laisse pousser les dents
Wifredo Lam
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.05 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,042 $1,838
![Print, El ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Wifredo Lam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/325864_1_grid.jpg)
El ultimo viaje del buque fantasma
Wifredo Lam
Print - 50 x 36 x 4 cm Print - 19.7 x 14.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,176
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El Ultimo Viaje Del Buque Fantasma
Wifredo Lam
Print - 76.2 x 55.2 cm Print - 30 x 21.75 inch
$3,000
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El ultimo viaje del buque fantasma - 6
Wifredo Lam
Print - 56 x 76 x 1 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
$907
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El último viaje del buque fantasma III
Wifredo Lam
Print - 50 x 71 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$454
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El último viaje del buque fantasma X
Wifredo Lam
Print - 50 x 71 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$454
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L’oiseau de Feu – L’oiseau de Fer (Bird of Fire – Bird of Iron)
Wifredo Lam
Sculpture - 26 x 28 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 11 x 3.9 inch
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Elle, casqué - from the suite Pleni Luna
Wifredo Lam
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
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Belle épine - from the suite 'Pleni Luna'
Wifredo Lam
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Innoncence - from the suite Pleni Luna
Wifredo Lam
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
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Taureau-trois-graines s’est laisse pousser les dents
Wifredo Lam
Print - 65 x 50 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
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Des hommes oiseaux, des nageurs courbes
Wifredo Lam
Print - 59 x 80 cm Print - 23.2 x 31.5 inch
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Oiseau de feu et oiseau de fer
Wifredo Lam
Sculpture - 27 x 28 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 11 x 5.5 inch
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El último viaje del buque fantasma I
Wifredo Lam
Print - 50 x 35.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 14 x 0.1 inch
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en: Painting is a universal language.
Biography
Wifredo Lam was born in 1902 in Sagua la Grande (Cuba). He studied Law before leaving his island in 1923 for Spain.
Wifredo Lam joined the Artcollege of Madrid where he would work in the painter Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor's atelier. His first personal exhibition was organized in 1928. The work of Wifredo Lam was in its halfcaste history (China, Africa, and the Antilles). The artist was notably inspired by Africans who brought in Cuba "their primitive culture, their magic religion, and its mystic aspect".
During the Spanish civil war, Wifredo Lam fought for the republicans. He was obliged to take refuge in France in 1937; there, he met Picasso who helped him to find his place in the Parisian artistic environment and introduced him to his friends (Michel Leiris, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, Léger, Braque, Miro, Christian Zervos, Matisse, etc.). In 1939, he joined André Breton and the surrealist movement.
Wifredo Lam died in Paris in 1982. According to the painter's will, his ashes were transferred in Cuba, where was created in posthumous honoring, the "Centre Wifredo Lam" for the promotion and the study of the Third World-Plastic Arts.
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