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Wifredo Lam

Near the Virgin Islands (Près des Îles Vierges), 1959

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Description

Maker

  • Wifredo Lam, 1902-1982, Cuban

Title

Near the Virgin Islands (Près des Îles Vierges)

Year

1959

Medium

Oil, charcoal, and pastel on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil,
  • charcoal,
  • pastel

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

208.3 x 190.5 cm (82 x 75 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed on back:Près des / Îles Vierges / 1959; LR:1 / 19

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

69.054

Projects & Publications

Publications

The First America

Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Helguera

February 7, 2020 - August 21, 2021

Stranger Than Paradise

July 14, 2017 - February 25, 2018

This darkly tropical setting combines images from African tribal sculpture and Afro-Cuban deities and rituals with references to slavery in Cuba, including sugar cane and prostitution. During World War II Lam went to Martinique, where he strongly identified with Negritude, a movement that flourished in the 1940s. Lam became the most important painter associated with the movement, which protested the suppression of black culture in the colonized West Indies. Near the Virgin Islands is emblematic of Negritude’s celebration of authentic sources in its assured use of the linear, highly stylized pictorial forms found in African sculpture.

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June 23 - October 29, 2000

Artistic Expressions of the Human Spirit

November 21, 1997 - April 26, 1998

From the Reserve II

June 24 - August 27, 1994

Migrations

February 21 - April 26, 1992

Del Nuevo Mundo

June 17 - September 4, 1988

The Nancy Sayles Day Collection

January 4 - February 6, 1977

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