1976
Edition Size: 99 + HC + AP
Sheet Size: 56 x 76 cm
Signed
Condition: Pristine
Lithograph on Arches paper – Signed by the artist and numbered – From the suite that illustrates writer Gabriel García Márquez’s book “El último viaje del buque fantasma”. – Referenced in the catalogue raisonné “Wifredo Lam, Oeuvre gravé et lithographié”, by D. Tonneau-Ryckelynck (Musée de Gravelines, 1994).
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Wifredo Lam was an artist associated with the Modern Art movement. He was concerned with the representation of the oppressed. Influenced by his sympathy with the poor and the marginalised, his emotionally dark paintings bring to light depictions of people with deep struggle. Lam was born in Cuba, after leaving his native Havana, he went on to study at the Escuela de Bellas in Madrid, Spain. His Afro-Cuban heritage can be seen to have influenced his works. In 1941, Lam served forty days in a prison on the Caribbean Island of Martinique, after escaping the devastation of war in France.
