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In the 1950s, the American couple John and Alice Pole-Woods moved to Paris, where they met another exile, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam. Their shared tastes led to a lasting friendship.
John Pole descended from a very old English family that traced its lineage back to the Hundred Years War. He and his wife Alice, née Woods, acquired this painting directly from Wifredo Lam around 1954. At the time, the couple had an antique store in Paris specializing in Islamic art, while the Cuban painter had been living between France and Italy since 1952. They frequented the same artistic circles…
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