Christie’s will auction next November 11 the painting La Reunion, from Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, which could reach a value of between three and four million dollars, according to the auction house.
Christie’s, which describes the work, executed in 1942, as one of Lam’s “most important works of art,” notes that the piece will be on display at its Los Angeles headquarters until October 23 and at New York, where it will be auctioned, between October 30 and November 11.
Christie’s specialist in Latin American painting Marysol Nieves described La Reunion as an exceptional example of Lam from the early 1940s, “a decade in which the artist reached full maturity.”
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“This monumental work masterfully collects all that Lam is – his unique contribution to the history of modern art – the convergence of the avant-garde practices of the twentieth century with the cosmologies of the New World,” added the expert.
The painting that will be auctioned by the firm was painted in Havana in 1942, after the artist had lived in Europe since the 1920s, where he dealt with artists and intellectuals such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Breton.
Christie’s insists that La Reunion is a “wonderful example” of the artist’s work, including his signature horse with a woman’s head, which first appeared in the artist’s work in 1940.
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Works ‘La Reunion’, by Wifredo Lam.
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Inspired by the poetry of Breton and the work of post-cubists and surrealists, including Picasso, “the horse woman is an amalgamation of European modernism and Afro-Cuban divinity.”
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Despite its high value, the expected price of La Reunion is far from the 9.6 million dollars that were paid in June 2020 for the Omi Obini painting at a Sotheby’s auction, the highest amount paid for a piece by the Cuban in a sale to the highest bidder.
EFE
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