Featuring an abstract creature #2/150 - Attributes: Signed on the lower right. After Wilfredo Lam - Media: Linocut print - Condition: Good condition, slight staining - Provenance: Private collection, South America - Dimensions (cm): 20.7 by 24.3 - Dimensions (inches): 8.1 by 9.6 - Biography: In 1923 Lam began studying in Madrid under Fernando Ãlvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, the curator of the Museo del Prado and teacher of Salvador Dalí. In the mornings he would attend his conservative teacher's studio, while he spent his evenings working alongside young, nonconformist painters. At the Prado, Lam discovered and was awed by the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel I. While his early paintings were in the modernist Spanish tradition, his work soon became more simplified and decorative.[1] Though Lam's dislike for academic conservatism persisted, his time in Spain marked his technical development in which he began to merge a primitive aesthetic and the traditions of Western composition. In 1929 he married Eva Piriz, but both she and their young son died in 1931 of tuberculosis; it is likely that this personal tragedy contributed to the dark nature of his work.

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