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Wifredo Lam (1902 – 1982)
Totem
(Totem), 1965
pastel on heavy paper laid down on board
27 ½ x 19 ½ inches

Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN
ARTWORKS, Volume Twelve,
page 51.

This artwork is dedicated on the reverse
to ‘Giordano, Wi Lam, 1975’, and again
signed by the artist.

Exhibited at Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art,
New York, NY, number LAMWDR 1965001,
as per the exhibition sticker on the
back of the painting.

This artwork is accompanied by
a Photo-Certificate of Authenticity,
signed and dated by Madame Lou Laurin
Lam, Paris, November 26, 2001, no. 01-41.

“Thanks to Lam, the preposterous, rugged
and uninspired forms that blocked the
road are blown up by the great suns of
dynamite. Thanks to Lam, the primal
spirit - and by that, I mean the
sentiment, the dream, the heredity - is
projected and illuminated... Nourished
with sea salt, sun, rain, marvelous and
sinister moons, Wifredo Lam is the one
who calls the modern world back to the
original terror and fervor.”

AIMÉ CÉSAIRE

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