Wifredo Lam & Pablo Picasso

Galerie Gmurzynska presents a new publication “Wifredo Lam and Pablo Picasso”, the essential study on the relationship between the 20th century masters and dear friends.

 

Their story began with their simultaneous invitations to produce paintings for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 Worlds’ Fair, responding to the Spanish Civil War, where Picasso would premiere “Guernica”. From 1939-1942, they were linked intimately in the Parisian avant-garde, with Picasso introducing Wifredo Lam to African art and personally bringing his friends (Chagall, Giacometti, Le Corbusier, Léger, and Miró) to Lam’s 1939 solo exhibition at Galerie Pierre, Paris. Picasso was Lam’s greatest advocate and even stored all of his paintings for safekeeping when Lam fled Europe during the Second World War. They maintained a lifelong friendship, attested to in this publication by intimate correspondence and photographs, much of which was unpublished until now.

 

The tome includes original texts from Jérôme Neutres, Jacques Leenhardt, Fabrice Flahutez and Dorota Dolega-Ritter, including an excerpt from the upcoming biography of Wifredo Lam. The book is edited by Krystyna Gmurzynska, Mathias Rastorfer, and Gregory Tiersma-Woolgar.

 

 

389 pages.

English.

Hardcover.

 

ISBN – 978-3-033-12082-2