Artworks by Wifredo Lam at Galerie Gmurzynska on artnet

Wifredo Lam

(Cuban, 1902–1982)

Wifredo Lam

Sans Titre, 1966

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Wifredo Lam

[Dieu du Carrefour] 8 October, 1975

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Wifredo Lam

Untitled, 1972

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Wifredo Lam

Untitled, 1967

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Biography

Timeline

1902: Born in La Sagua La Grande, Villa la Clara, Cuba
1916: Attended Escuela de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
1920 - 1923: Attended the Acadamia San Atejandra, Havana, Cuba
Moved to Madrid, Spain
1924 - 1928: Free Academy, Madrid, Spain
1938: Moved to Paris, France, and became associated with the Surrealists
1939: Worked with Picasso, France
1941: Moved back to Cuba
1951: Received First Prize at the Salone Nacionale in Havana, Cuba
1953: Received the Gold Medal for foreign painters in Premlo Lissone, Rome, Italy
1958: named member of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in Fine Art, Chicago, IL
1964: Awarded the Guggenheim International Award, New York, NY
1965: Received the Premio Marzotto in Milan, Italy
1982: Died in Paris, France

Exhibitions

2012: Fire Tongues - Galerie Gmurzynska - St. Moritz, St. Moritz
Do You Know My Age? - Wissen Sie Mein Alter? - Factory-Art - Berlin, Berlin
L'Art en Guerre, France 1938-1947 - De Picasso a Dubuffet - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris
The Supersurrealism - Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö
20th Century Masters - Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
2011: Aimé Césaire, Lam, Picasso - Nous nous sommes trouvés - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly? - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2010: Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Surrealism and the Museum of Dreams - Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
2009: Bilderträume. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Picasso, Matisse, Dubuffet, Bacon... - Les modernes s’exposent au musée des Beaux-Arts - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon
Echo: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks - Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008: Wifredo Lam - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL (solo)
Wilfredo Lam - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (solo)
Wifredo Lam in North America - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2007: Wifredo Lam in North America - Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
2004: Wilfredo Lam - Galerie Boulakia, Paris (solo)
1994 - 1995: Wifredo Lam - Drawings: Interlude Marseille - Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
1992: Wifredo Lam - Gana Art Center , Seoul (solo)
1988: Wifredo Lam - K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - am Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf (solo)
1987: Galerie Maeght Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1982: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1979: Artcurial, Paris, France (solo)
1972: Galerie Tronche, Paris, France (solo)
1971: Galerie Gimpel und Hanover, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1970: Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milan, Italy (solo)
Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York, NY (solo)
1969: Galleria Bergarnini, Milan, Italy (solo)
1968: Galerie Villand et Galanis, Paris, France (solo)
1967: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1966: Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
Musee d'Art Moderne de Ia Ville, Paris, France
1965: Museo de Arte Moderna, Havana, Cuba (solo)
Galerie Anderson, Malmo, Sweden (solo)
1964: Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy (solo)
1963: Galerie Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Galeria de la flabana, Havana, Cuba (solo)
1962: Salone Annunciata, Milan, Italy (solo)
1961: Galerie La Cour d'Ingres, Paris, France (solo)
Galleria del Canale, Venice, Italy (solo)
Galleria del Obelisco, Rome, Italy (solo)
Albert Loeb Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1959: Galleria Grattacielo, Milan, Italy (solo)
1957: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Marcaibo, Venezuela (solo)
Galerie Cahiers d'Art, Paris, France (solo)
1955: Galerie Colibri, Malmo, Sweden (solo)
University of Havana, Havana, Cuba (solo)
Museo de Deltas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (solo)
1953: Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo)
1952: Institute of contemporary Arts, London, UK (solo)
1951: Ministry of Education, Havana, Cuba (solo)
1950: Lam: Obras Recientes 1950, Parque Central, Havana, Cuba (solo)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1948: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1946: The Cuban Painter Wifredo Lam, The London Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Centre d'Art, Port-an-Prince, Haiti (solo)
1945: Wifredo Lam, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France (solo)
1944 - 1945: Lam Paintings, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1942: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1939: Wifredo Lam Peintures, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France (solo)
Drawings by Picasso and Gouaches by Wifredo Lam, Perls Gallery, New York, NY
1928: GalerieVilches, Madrid, Spain (solo)

Public Collections

: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Centro Medeco, Havana, Cuba
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Denmark
: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, France
: Museum Boyrnans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
: Tate Gallery, London, UK

Wifredo Lam

(Cuban, 1902–1982)

Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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