Wifredo Lam - El Ultimo Viaje del Buque Fantasma I For Sale

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Wifredo Lam – El Ultimo Viaje del Buque Fantasma I For Sale

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ARTIST		WIFREDO LAM
Title		El Ultimo Viaje del Buque Fantasma I
Work Date		1976
Category		Prints
Materials		Lithograph
Edition Of		Edition of 99
Size		h: 22 x w: 30 in h: 56 x w: 76 cm
Region		Cuban
Style		Contemporary
Price*		$1,650 We offer competitive pricing
Gallery Ph.		323-744-7550

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The Ultimo Viaje del Buque Fantasma suite, was done by Poligrafa, in Barcelona in 1976. It is rare, sought after, and difficult to find. These images were inspired by the writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, an excerpt of his writings are available here .

During his sixty-year career (1923-1982) Lam was to pave the way for contemporary artists of African, Asian, Pacific, and Native American descent in the international art world. But the road was not always easy or straightforward. His arrival in Paris effectively precipitated the first crisis of modernism by introducing the primitive into primitivism.

He confronted European modernists with a real human entity both conversant in his traditional culture and trained in modernist conventions. As an African, Chinese Cuban, however, he was quickly subsumed under those same romantic characterizations of the primitive, marginalized to an extent as an authentic specimen.

Descriptions of his work are inevitably modified with signifiers such as magician, master of the fantastic, avatar of the jungle, and shaman. His situation as both insider and outsider is clearly illustrated in the diagram of the modern art tree published by painter Ad Reinhardt in P.M. magazine in 1946. Reinhardt grouped artists of different modernist tendencies on branches off the trunk of modern art.

Lam s name can be found near the names of artists whose work manifests a magical, surreal quality—Yves Tanguy, Pavel Tchelitchew, Kurt Seligmann, and Louis O. Guglielmi, who appear as leaves bunched together on the branch. But, tellingly, Lam is literally a leaf out on the same branch by himself.

As is the case with all of our Latin Master graphic work, we guarantee the authenticity of this work, and will provide a letter of authentication on our gallery letterhead.

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