Untitled by Wifredo Lam
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

Wifredo Lam · 1947

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist to the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1948 [a letter of July 13, 1995, from Olive Bragazzi, director of the Pierre Matisse Foundation]; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1967; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, "Wilfred Lam," 1948, not in cat.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," 1984–1985, p. 161 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection," 1986, pamphlet no. 32.
  • New York, Bronx Museum of the Arts, "The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States 1920-1970," 1988-1990, cat. 109 (ill.); also El Paso, San Diego, and Vero Beach, Florida.

Literature

Published references

  • 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), pp. 160–61, cat. 80 (color ill.).

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