Wifredo Lam
Deity
1941
Scroll
Wifredo Lam
Deity
1941
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor and charcoal, Sheet: 1048 × 845 mm. (41 1/4 × 33 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.318
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; from Saidie A. May; purchased from Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1942
The Color of My Dreams: Surrealism and Revolution in Art
Martica Sawin, "Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School," Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997, illus. p. 238.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting", United States: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 199.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: lower right in black ink: "Wilfredo Lam 7-1942"
