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Untitled [Silence of the Jungle]
(Sin Título [Silencio de la Jungla])
Author: Wifredo Lam
Year: ca 1945
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 49 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches
Inventory No: 07197
Price: $
SOLD
Provenance:
Castillo Vázquez Collection, Havana, Cuba,
who received it as a gift from the artist;
Private Collection, New York.
Exhibited in Wifredo Lam en la Colección Castillo,
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba,
Dec. 1993, no. 13.
Exhibited in A Surrealist Century / Un Siglo Surrealista,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, Aug. – Nov. 2024,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com, exhibitions.
Illustrated in Wifredo Lam en las colecciones cubanas,
José Manuel Noceda, Havana, 2002, page 111,
[listed as Naturaleza, (Nature)], no. 100, page 236.
A copy of the publication accompanies the artwork.
Illustrated in Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné
of the Painted Work, Vol. I, (1923-1960),
Lou Laurin-Lam & Eskil Lam, Acatos, Paris, 1996,
no. 45.64, page 385.
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS, Volume Twenty,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, 2023, page 161.
This painting is accompanied by a letter
from Eskil Lam, son of the artist,
issued September 23, 2024, Paris, France,
confirming the authenticity of the artwork.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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