Mother and Child

1957

Wifredo Lam
Cuban, 1902-1982

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Wifredo Lam
Title: Mother and Child
Place: Cuba (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1957
Medium: Charcoal and pastel on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower right: "Wi Lam / 1957"
Dimensions: 73.3 × 58.3 cm (28 7/8 × 23 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.330
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Dorothy Chaplik, Latin American Art: An Introduction to Works of the Twentieth Century (Jefferson, North Carolina, 1977), pp. 7-8 (ill.).
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 166, cat. 83 (color ill.).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Fantastic Drawings,” 1967–1968, no cat.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections,” 1973, n.p.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection,” 1986, pamphlet no. 33.
New York, Bronx Museum of the Arts, “The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970,” 1989-1990, cat. 112 (ill.); also El Paso, San Diego, and Vero Beach, Florida.

Sold by the artist to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1958; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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