Bidspirit auction | Wifredo Lam, attributed/manner of: Surrealist

Wifredo Lam, attributed/manner of: Surrealist Figures ( Guitar face) - Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902-1982) attributed/manner of: Surrealist Figures ( Guitar face). Pencil on paper, signed lower right, unframed. Note verso reads ”a bardo del Paul Lammarde 1941.” The internationally renowned Cuban painter Wifredo Lam was a precursor of a cross-cultural style of painting, infusing Western modernism with African and Caribbean symbolism. His peripatetic life brought him into contact with all the avant-garde movements of his times including cubism, surrealism, and CoBrA.