Untitled, 1966

Wifredo Lam   Master Artists

Untitled is an original etching realized by Wifredo Lam in 1966. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin, numbered in pencil on the lower left margin; edition of 99 prints. Good condition.

It represents an abstract figure on a yellow background. The style of Lam's painting is a mix of several artistic expressions that the artist met during his foreign trips. His work is characterized by Cubist influences and features similar to those of Graffiti and Surrealist artworks.

Wifredo Lam (Sagua la Grande, 1902 – Paris, 1982) was a Cuban painter. In 1923, he moved to Spain where he has lived for fourteen years. In 1929, he married Eva Piris who died two years later because of tuberculosis. In 1938, Lam met Pablo Picasso and his friends Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque. In 1941, he left Europe to move to Cuba with André Breton; during the same year, he was interned for forty days in Martinique Island. At the age of fifty, he moved to Paris where he died in 1982. Wifredo Lam is considered one of the most important exponents of the "Negrism" movement; together with René Portocarrero, he is the most famous artist in Cuba.