Mother and Child by Wifredo Lam
Art Institute of Chicago

Mother and Child

Wifredo Lam · 1957

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1958; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Fantastic Drawings," 1967–1968, no cat.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections," 1973, n.p.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection," 1986, pamphlet no. 33.
  • New York, Bronx Museum of the Arts, "The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970," 1989-1990, cat. 112 (ill.); also El Paso, San Diego, and Vero Beach, Florida.

Literature

Published references

  • Dorothy Chaplik, Latin American Art: An Introduction to Works of the Twentieth Century (Jefferson, North Carolina, 1977), pp. 7-8 (ill.).
  • Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 166, cat. 83 (color ill.).

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