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Surrealist Masterpieces from an Important American Collection
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
Ogue Orisa (Eggue Orissa, l'herbe des dieux)
Details
WIFREDO LAM (1902-1982)
Ogue Orisa (Eggue Orissa, l'herbe des dieux)
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1943' (lower right)
oil on canvas
71 ½ x 49 in. (181.6 x 124.5 cm.)
Painted in 1943
Ogue Orisa (Eggue Orissa, l'herbe des dieux)
signed and dated 'Wifredo Lam 1943' (lower right)
oil on canvas
71 ½ x 49 in. (181.6 x 124.5 cm.)
Painted in 1943
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville (acquired from the above, by 1949); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 17 October 1979, lot 71.
Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 25 November 1997, lot 53.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville (acquired from the above, by 1949); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 17 October 1979, lot 71.
Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 25 November 1997, lot 53.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Mabille, "The Ritual Painting of Wifredo Lam" in Magazine of Art, vol. 42, no. 5, Washington, D.C., May 1949, p. 187 (illustrated; titled Eggue Orissa, Grass of the Gods).
M. Leiris, Wifredo Lam, New York and Milan, 1970, n.p., no. 34 (illustrated; titled Ogue Oriza: God's Grass).
A. Jouffrouy, Le nouveau Nouveau monde de Lam, Pollenza, 1975, p. 81 (illustrated).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, first edition, Barcelona, 1976, pp. 60-61 and 254, no. 61 (illustrated).
H. Day and H. Sturges, Art of the Fantastic: Latin America, 1920-1987, exh. cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987, pp. 104-107 (illustrated; titled Ogue Orisi).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, second edition, Barcelona, 1989, pp. 64-65 and 274, no. 61 (illustrated).
L. Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, vol. I, pp. 328 and 514, no. 43.08 (illustrated).
M. Leiris, Wifredo Lam, New York and Milan, 1970, n.p., no. 34 (illustrated; titled Ogue Oriza: God's Grass).
A. Jouffrouy, Le nouveau Nouveau monde de Lam, Pollenza, 1975, p. 81 (illustrated).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, first edition, Barcelona, 1976, pp. 60-61 and 254, no. 61 (illustrated).
H. Day and H. Sturges, Art of the Fantastic: Latin America, 1920-1987, exh. cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987, pp. 104-107 (illustrated; titled Ogue Orisi).
M.-P. Fouchet, Wifredo Lam, second edition, Barcelona, 1989, pp. 64-65 and 274, no. 61 (illustrated).
L. Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam: Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, 1923-1960, Lausanne, 1996, vol. I, pp. 328 and 514, no. 43.08 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Lam Paintings, June 1944, n.p., no. 9.
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Dada, Surrealism, and their Heritage, March-December 1968, p. 170-171 and 247, fig. 262 (illustrated).
New York, El Museo del Barrio, Nexus New York: Latin American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, October 2009-February 2010, p. 44 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, November 2025-April 2026, pp. 112-113 and 253 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Dada, Surrealism, and their Heritage, March-December 1968, p. 170-171 and 247, fig. 262 (illustrated).
New York, El Museo del Barrio, Nexus New York: Latin American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, October 2009-February 2010, p. 44 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, November 2025-April 2026, pp. 112-113 and 253 (illustrated).
Presentado por
Paige Kestenman
Vice President, Senior Specialist, Co-Head of 20th Century Evening Sale