Both works figure in the in-person exhibition Wifredo Lam: The Imagination at Work, which is on view at 510 West 25th Street in New York from November 10 to December 21. Lam, who early in his career associated with major figures in the surrealist and cubist movements in Europe, cultivated a shapeshifting and ever evolving practice over the course of his life. The paintings in this presentation, both untitled from 1972, reflect Lam’s interest in machinic, angular figures during the 1970s, a period in which he explored new, radical frontiers beyond his earlier sources of inspiration.