Caos-Caos

1. Private collection, by 1953 [London 1954]. Sold through Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, to Leonard J. and Ruth P. Horwich, Chicago, by 1976 [email from attorneys for Horwich estate, June 23, 2016, copy in curatorial object file; Fouchet 1976, p. 278]; by descent to the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Foundation, Chicago, 2014; given in partial interest to the Art Institute of Chicago, April 21, 2015; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 6, 2016.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Havana, Parque Central, Exposicion Lam: obras receintes, 1950, Oct. 2–15, 1950, cat. 13.
• London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 20th-Century Form: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Apr. 9–May 31, 1953, cat. 24 (by error as Caos-Caos, 1952).
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, Dec. 1, 1984–Jan. 27, 1985, no cat. no. (by error as Untitled, circa 1965).

• Ministerio de Educación, Exposición Lam: obras receintes, exh. brochure (Ministerio de Educación, 1950), n.pag., cat. 13.
• Whitechapel Art Gallery, 20th-Century Form: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, exh. cat. (Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1953) p. 7, cat. 24 (by error as Caos-Caos, 1952).
• Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam (Éditions Cercle d’Art, 1976), pp. 236, cat. 440 (ill.); 258 (as A point, 1948).
• André Pieyre de Mandiargues, “W lam!,” special issue of XXe siècle, 52 (July 1979), p. 65 (color ill.).
• Dawn Ades, Mary Mathews Gedo, Mary Jane Jacob, Rosalind E. Krauss, Dennis Alan Nawrocki, Lowery Stokes Sims, In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism, ed. Terry Ann R. Neff, exh. cat. (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/Abberville Press, 1984), p. 163 (ill. by error as Untitled, circa 1965).
• Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 2nd ed. (Ediciones Polígrafa, 1989), p. 256, cat 472 (ill.); 278 (as Ready, 1948).
• Lou Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I, 1923–1960 (Acatos, 1996), p. 435, cat. 50.54 (ill.)
• Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923–1982 (University of Texas Press, 2002), p. 102.

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