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Untitled [The Couple]
(Sin Título [La Pareja])
Author: Wifredo Lam
Year: 1978
Medium: mixed media and pastel laid down on board
Size: 11 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches
Inventory No: 07319
Price: $
SOLD
Provenance:
Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Exhibited in WIFREDO LAM SHOW as part of
A Surrealist Century / Un Siglo Surrealista,
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, Jan. – Apr. 2025,
and illustrated digitally on cernudaarte.com,
exhibitions.
This painting is accompanied by
a Photo-Certificate of Authenticity
signed by Eskil Lam, numbered 24-30.
Acquired by a Private Collector in Miami Beach, Florida.
In 1978, Wifredo Lam spent time in St. Gallen,
Switzerland, recovering his health after having
suffered a stroke. Lam, the inveterate painter, found
time and energy to produce a repertoire of works on
heavy paper, brilliantly executed with bravado and
resolve, as if defying the inevitable end. The artist
turned over these artworks to the Erker Galerie in
St. Gallen, by then one of the well-known and
prestigious exponents of modernism in Europe.
The galerie, run by Franz Larese and Jürg Janett,
exemplified the advancement of artistic moments
in direct dialogue with leading intellectuals and
writers of distinction. The circle of leading artists
and intellectuals associated with Erker Galerie,
which also ran a publishing house, is legendary,
from Martin Heidegger, Eduardo Chillida, Die Kunst,
Halldór Laxness, Asger Jorn, Joseph Brodsky, Antoni
Tàpies, and others. Wifredo Lam had deposited his
last artistic hurrah in great hands.
Ramón Cernuda
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