Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Oiseau de feu et oiseau de fer, Circa 1970
Sculpture : metal · 27 x 28 x 14 cm 10.6 x 11 x 5.5 inch
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Type
Sculpture : numbered and limited to 500 copies
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition
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Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Engraved signature
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metal
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
27 x 28 x 14 cm 10.6 x 11 x 5.5 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
Pair of polished metal sculptures and chromed bronze.
h cm 26.5 x 14. each.
Both signed and numbered 127/500. Very rare to find together, with same edition number.
Provenance: Private collection, Italy.
Maybe one of the most celebrated sculptures by Lam.
Wifredo Lam (Sagua la Grande, December 8, 1902 - Paris, September 11, 1982) was a Cuban artist.
Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, a municipality located in the Cuban province of Villa Clara, the eighth child of a wealthy 84-year-old Chinese merchant and a mother of African-European descent. In the early autumn of 1923 he sailed for Spain where he lived for fourteen years. In 1938 Lam met Pablo Picasso and got to know the painter's friends (Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Paul Éluard, Georges Braque). In 1941 he left Europe for Cuba with André Breton, who wanted to go to New York.
But while he thought he would find his native island, he was interned for forty days on the small island of Martinique. In spite of everything he made the acquaintance of Aimé Césaire of which he became friend. After staying on the island for ten years, at the age of fifty, he moved permanently to Paris (often staying in Italy, in Albisola, where he had a villa studio and where he worked on ceramic works). He died in Paris. Fidel Castro, in agreement with his wife Lou, fulfilled Wifredo Lam's wish to be buried in Cuba,
also creating the Wifredo Lam Museum in Havana.
h cm 26.5 x 14. each.
Both signed and numbered 127/500. Very rare to find together, with same edition number.
Provenance: Private collection, Italy.
Maybe one of the most celebrated sculptures by Lam.
Wifredo Lam (Sagua la Grande, December 8, 1902 - Paris, September 11, 1982) was a Cuban artist.
Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, a municipality located in the Cuban province of Villa Clara, the eighth child of a wealthy 84-year-old Chinese merchant and a mother of African-European descent. In the early autumn of 1923 he sailed for Spain where he lived for fourteen years. In 1938 Lam met Pablo Picasso and got to know the painter's friends (Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Paul Éluard, Georges Braque). In 1941 he left Europe for Cuba with André Breton, who wanted to go to New York.
But while he thought he would find his native island, he was interned for forty days on the small island of Martinique. In spite of everything he made the acquaintance of Aimé Césaire of which he became friend. After staying on the island for ten years, at the age of fifty, he moved permanently to Paris (often staying in Italy, in Albisola, where he had a villa studio and where he worked on ceramic works). He died in Paris. Fidel Castro, in agreement with his wife Lou, fulfilled Wifredo Lam's wish to be buried in Cuba,
also creating the Wifredo Lam Museum in Havana.
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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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