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Apostroph' Apocalypse #6631 [Series XVIII of XXV]
Author: Wifredo Lam (Lithographs)
Year: 1967
Medium: acquatint on Japanese paper
Size: 20 x 30 1/2 inches
Inventory No: 07181
Price: $
SOLD
Illustrated in Wifredo Lam: Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié, Catalogue Raisonné, Musée de Gravelines, France, 1993, page 95, no. 6631.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, 2023, page 33.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Largo, Florida.
Wifredo Lam's remarkable suite of prints, Apostroph'Apocalypse, exemplifies his most audacious printmaking work. The series was conceived as an art book, created in collaboration with the avant-garde writer Gherasim Luca during the mid-1960s, amid rising global nuclear tensions.
Lam’s draftsmanship reached new heights, reimagining his iconic human-horse hybrids as weaponized phantoms soaring through negative space – sensuous, vivid, and surreal. Beyond the mere assuredness of the line, works from this series have an uncanny texture and color. The distinctive shades are the product of a technique created by Wifredo Lam in collaboration with renowned printmaker Giorgio Upiglio in Milan, which allowed Lam to draw directly on plates coated with powdered pigment.
Only 25 copies of Lam's hand-signed and numbered prints from this series, produced on Japanese paper, exist. These individually signed and numbered Japanese paper editions have become among the artist’s most coveted prints. Lam's 14 plates from Apostroph’Apocalypse, executed in a bold and experimental process, have graced esteemed institutions like the Centre Pompidou Paris; National Library, Paris; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Villa Medici, Rome; Palazzo della Permanente, Milan; Yokohoma Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Fine Arts Central Academy, Beijing; Institute of Fine Arts, Hong Kong; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona; Musée du dessin et de l’estampe Original, Gravelines, France; and the Asian Art Archives, among many others.
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