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Wifredo Lam
Los Ojos Abiertos
(The Opened Eyes), 1972
oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches
Illustrations:
Illustrated in Wifredo Lam, Max-Pol Fouchet, First Edition, 1976, page 173, no. 218, and in Wifredo Lam, Max-Pol Fouchet, Second Edition, 1989, page 177, no. 218.
This painting is illustrated twice in Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume II, 1961-1982, Project Director: Eskil Lam, Acatos 2002, page 357, and again on page 374, no. 72.88.
Illustrated in Important Cuban Artworks, Volume Twelve, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, November 2014, page 42.
Exhibitions:
This painting was exhibited in Lam, Galleria Gissi, Torino, Italy, 1978, and illustrated in the catalog, no. 19.
Also exhibited in Wifredo Lam in North America at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 11, 2007 to January 21, 2008. This exhibition later traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, February 8 - May 18, 2008; Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, California, June 12 - August 31, 2008; and to the Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 2, 2008 - January 10, 2009. This artwork was illustrated in the museum catalog, Wifredo Lam in North America, with essays by Curtis L. Carter, Lowery Stokes Sims, Dawn Ades, Valerie J. Fletcher, Edward Lucie-Smith and Lou Laurin Lam, published by the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, page 136, no. 62.
This painting is accompanied by a photo-certificate of authenticity signed by Madame Lou Laurin Lam, dated December 15, 1999, no. 99-59.
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