Highlights

Nu à la chaise

1942
Wifredo Lam

Tempera on paper mounted on canvas
Signed and dated lower left; Signed and dated on the back afterwards
165 x 98 cm

EXHIBITIONS:
Charlottenlund (Danemark), Ordrupgaard; Høvikodden (Norvège), Fondation Sonja Henie – Niels Onstad; Wifredo Lam, 14 Sept. – 15 Oct. 1978, no. 12, ill. b/w p. 27
Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Homenaje a Wifredo Lam 1902 – 1982, 20 Oct. – 12 Dec. 1982, no. 30, ill. col. p. 60
Bruxelles, Musée d’Ixelles, 7 jan. – 6 mar. 1983; Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 23 March – 22 May 1983; Wifredo Lam 1902 – 1982, no. 38, ill. col.
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfallen, 2 July – 4 Sept. 1988; Hamburg, Kunstverein, 19 Nov. 1988 – 4 Jan. 1989; Wifredo Lam, no. 22, ill. col. p. 47
New York, Galerie Lelong, Wifredo Lam, paintings, 17 Nov. – 22 Dec. 1990
San Juan (Puerto Rico), Arsenal de la Puntilla, Wifredo Lam, obras desde 1938 hasta 1975, de regreso al Caribe, 14 Fév. – 30 Apr. 1992, ill. col.
Paris, Musée Dapper, Lam Métis, 26 Sept. – 20 Jan. 2002, no. 14, ill. col. p. 38
Milan, Galleria Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, Refettorio delle Stelline, Wifredo Lam, Cuba – Italia, Un percorso, 15 Nov. 2002 – 25 Jan. 2003, no. 11, ill. col. p. 57
Paris, Galerie Boulakia, Wifredo Lam, l’oiseau du possible, 25 May – 31 July 2004, ill. col. p. 37
Milwaukee, Marquette University, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Wifredo Lam in North America, 11 Oct. 2007 – 21 Jan. 2008
Miami, Miami Art Museum, Wifredo Lam in North American Collection, 7 Feb. – 18 May 2008

LITERATURE:
Michel Leiris, Wifredo Lam, Fratelli Fabri, Milan 1970, no. 27, ill. col.
Gérard Xuriguéra, Wifredo Lam, Filipacchi, Paris 1974, ill. col. p. 31
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, Poligrafa / Cercle d’Art, Barcelona / Paris 1976, no. 50, ill. b/w. p. 49
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, 2ème Ed., Poligrafa, Barcelona 1989, no. 50, ill. b/w. p. 53
Lou Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam, Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Vol. I 1923 – 1960, Acatos, Lausanne / Paris 1996, no. 42.31, ill. b/w p. 299 and full page col. p. 77