
Art Institute of Chicago
Study for "The Jungle"
Wifredo Lam · 1942
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1956; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "The United States Collects Pan-American Art," 1959, cat. 28 (ill.).
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Modern Masters from Chicago Collections," 1972, n.p.
- Madrid, Museo nacional de arte contemporáaneo, "Exposición Antologica: Homenaje a Wilfred Lam, 1902-1982," 1982, cat. 31 (ill.); also Brussels and Paris.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," 1984–1985, pp. 14, 161, pl. 8.
Literature
Published references
- Alain Jouffroy, Lam (Paris, 1972), p. 30 (ill.).
- Michel Leiris, Wifredo Lam (New York, 1972), pl. 29.
- Alain Jouffroy, Le Nouveau Monde de Lam (Pollenza-Macerata, 1975), p. 89 (ill.).
- Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam (Paris, 1976), pl. 48.
- Sebastià Gasch, Wifredo Lam a Paris (Barcelona, 1976), p. 89, no. 9 (detail ill.).
- Lucien Curzi, Wifredo Lam (Bologna, 1978), p. 17, no. 15 (ill.).
- Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, translated by Kenneth Lyons (Barcelona, 1986), fig. 32.
- Museo des bellas artes, Wifredo Lam, Pintura y Obra Gráfica, 1938-1976, exh. cat. (Caracas, 1986)-87), p. 17 (ill.), fig. 5.
- Luis Miguel La Corte, "Imagen de Wifredo Lam," Arte (1987), p. 32 (ill.).
- Julia P. Herzberg, "Wifredo Lam," Latin American Art 2:3 (Summer 1990), p. 20.
- Studio Museum in Harlem, Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries, 1938-1952, exh. cat. (New York, 1992), pp. 35, 37 (ill.), fig. 10.
- Lou Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, vol 1, 1923-1960 (Lausanne, 1996), p. 87, fig. 43, p. 325, no. 42.122.
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