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| Lam - Prints, lithographs, etchings and illustrated books. | Sort by technique : | | |
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1902 - | Wifredo Lam is born in Sagua la Grande in Cuba. |
1916 - | Wifredo Lam takes courses at the Havana School of Fine Arts. |
1923 - | Lam migrates to Spain to take courses at the Madrid School of Fine Arts. |
1929 - | Wifredo Lam gets married and has a son the following year. His wife and his son die of tuberculosis two years later in 1931. |
1938 - | Lam moves to Paris. Picasso introduces him to the merchant Pierre Loeb who exhibits his paintings. |
1940 - | Due to the war, Wifredo Lam leaves Paris for Marseille where he makes a large number of surrealist friends including René Char, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Oscar Dominguez etc. |
1941 - | Lam travels by boat to Martinique where he will intern for 40 days in the company of 300 intellectuals including Breton and Victor Serge. |
1942 - | Lam returns to Cuba and settles in Havana. He remains there until 1952 when he will move permanently to Paris. |
1951 - | Wifredo Lam receives first prize at the Havana National exhibition. |
1955 - | Lam holds an exhibition at the University of Havana along with the students who oppose the Batista dictatorship. There is a major exhibition at the Caracas Museum of Fine Arts. |
1959 - | Overthrow of the Batista government and entry of Fidel Castro in Havana. |
1963 - | Lam returns to Cuba, invited by the government. Three years later, he paints the "Third World " for the Havana Presidential Palace. |
1970 - | Michel Leiris publishes a study of Wifredo Lam’s works. |
1975 - | Lam’s first ceramic exhibition. |
1982 - | Lam exhibits in the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York. He dies on September 11, 1982. Cuba celebrates national funerals in the month of December of that same year. |
1939 - "Drawings by Picasso and gouaches by Wifredo Lam", Pierre Matisse Gallery, New-York.
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1946 - "The cuban painter Wifredo Lam", The London Gallery, New-York. |
1951 - "Lam at our time", Havana, Cuba. |
1955 - "Wifredo Lam", Havana University, Cuba.
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1956 - "Wifredo Lam", Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
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1962 - "Images of Lam", Galleria dell'Annunciata, Milan, Italy.
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1966 - "Wifredo Lam", Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
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1967 - "Retrospective Lam", Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland.
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1968 - "Lam, Matta, Penalba", Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
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1971 - "Wifredo Lam", Gimpel Gallery, New-York, USA.
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1975 - "Le opere ceramiche di Wifredo Lam", Santerno ceramica, Bologna, Italy.
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1976 - "Wifredo Lam in Paris", Gallery Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain.
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1979 - "The jungle", Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
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1958 - "Wifredo Lam" from Baragano, Ed. Sociedad Colombista, La Havane, Cuba.
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1960 - "Lam", from Jacques Charpier, Ed. du Musée de Poche, Paris.
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1965 - "Wifredo Lam, drawings" from Y. Taillandier, Ed. Denoël, Paris.
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1972 - "Lam" from Alain Jouffroy, Ed. Georges Fall, Paris.
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1976 - "Wifredo Lam" from Fouchet, Ed. Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain.
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1979 - "Wifredo Lam", from André Pierre de Mandiargues, Lasse Soderberg, Pierre Mabille, Ed. XX siècle, Paris.
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| Lam - Catalogues Raisonnes |
| | - "Lam, oeuvre gravé et lithographié". Made by Dominique Tonneau-Ryckelynck, this catalogue list all the original prints of Wifredo Lam. Musée de Gravelines publisher in 1994. |
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