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Untitled [Woman and Personages]
(Sin Título [Mujer y Personajes])
Author: Wifredo Lam
Year: 1977
Medium: one-of-a-kind terracota,hand painted by the artist
Size: 20 1/2 inches in diameter
Inventory No: 06491
Price: $AVAILABLE
This artwork is accompanied by a photo-certificate of authenticity signed by Lou Laurin Lam, dated June 28, 2008, no. 08-08.
Illustrations:
Illustrated in Important Cuban Artworks, Volume Seven, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, December 2008, page 42.
“In the last few months Lam has been giving all his time to pottery and hardly paints at all. He hopes that by the end of 1976, he will have produced about 500 pieces. Some of them have already been exhibited at the Albisola Ceramics Museum…
His passion for ceramics is, I think, a response to deep, secret motivations. He has rediscovered in it one of mankind’s oldest creative activities. Being the result of the marriage of earth and fire, pottery may be seen as the combination of spirit and matter recovering, in the alchemist’s use of the term, their identity. For Lam, therefore, pottery is not just a secondary activity. Since it conveys the significance of his forms, it is, just as much his painting, the manifestation of his world.”
Max-Pol Fouchet, Wifredo Lam,
Rizzoli International Publication, 1976, page 220.
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