Wifredo Lam: New Year's Card from the Erker-Galerie (untitle - Lot 142

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Wifredo Lam: New Year's Card from the Erker-Galerie (untitle - Lot 142
Wifredo Lam: New Year's Card from the Erker-Galerie (untitled) — Greeting card from the Erker-Galerie, 1978 Original lithograph on Bütten paper (vellum), published as a New Year’s card (“Jahresgabe”) by the Erker-Galerie (Franz Larese & Jürg Janett), St. Gallen. Signed “Wifredo Lam” on the plate, lower right (not hand-signed). Unnumbered (print run not indicated). Dimensions: Full sheet 37 × 57 cm (14.6 × 22.4 in.); image 37 × 38 cm (14.6 × 15.0 in.) Condition: Very fine condition; vertical center fold as published. Unframed. Original lithograph by Wifredo Lam created as a greeting card for the Erker-Galerie in St. Gallen—a hybrid, totemic figure in the artist’s characteristic Afro-Cuban surrealist style, rendered in black on a textured background. Lam, like Tàpies, Hartung, Dorazio, and Chillida, was one of the international masters published by Franz Larese and Jürg Janett’s renowned Erker-Presse.
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