Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)

The Cuban Surrealist accounted for various gems in this art collection assembled by an American couple who lived in France from the 1950s.

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.

Acquired from Wifredo Lam by American collectors in the 1950s, the painting tripled its estimate selling for €258,000 on Sept. 11 in Blois at Pousse-Cornet. The Pole-Woods and the Cuban painter - exiled between Paris and Italy - frequented the same circles. Their friendship gave rise to a rich correspondence.

The Argentine financier Eduardo Costantini, a great collector of Latin American art bought the works for a total of €13.44 M during a sale in New York in June. Omi Obini by Wifredo Lam and Armonía by Remedios Varo will go to Buenos Aires in the private museum of the collector.

About a hundred lots are going to auction, with Henry Moore, Leonor Fini and Wifredo Lam leading the field.

The future museum, which will open on January 8, 2022, in the seaside resort of Punta del Este, will be organized around the personal collection of artist Pablo Atchugarry. Designed by architect Carlos Ott, it will house works by Wifredo Lam, Julio Le Parc and Frank Stella.

The Dominique de Roquemaurel Galitzine collection, up for auction in Monaco, comes at a turning point in the rediscovery of Dora Maar's work. After the Centre Pompidou rescued her from the shadows in 2019, she was no longer seen as Picasso's muse but as an artist in her own right.

This key figure in the French art scene takes over the Musée D'art Moderne et Contemporain in Villeneuve-d'Ascq (LAM) for one of the most important exhibitions since her 2007 retrospective at the Centre Pompidou.

Between Hong Kong and Shanghai, Chinese gallery owner Pearl Lam campaigns for intercultural dialogue and the recognition of Chinese contemporary art and design on the international scene. We talk to her.

If there is a collection that must not be missed under any circumstances, it is the one put together decades ago by James Bismuth, an agricultural commodities broker, who died last December at the age of 89.