{"id":23430,"date":"2012-05-27T04:16:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T04:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23430"},"modified":"2015-09-05T02:26:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T02:26:41","slug":"cuban-surrealist-wifredo-lam-fetches-record-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23430","title":{"rendered":"Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam fetches record price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-18187258\" target=\"_blank\">Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam fetches record price<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-24<\/p>\n<p>A painting by Cuban surrealist artist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wifredo_Lam\" target=\"_blank\">Wifredo Lam<\/a> fetched a record personal price at a Latin American art sale at auctioneers Sotheby&#8217;s in New York.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed South American collector paid $4.5m (\u00a32.9m) for Lam&#8217;s 1944 <em>Idol<\/em> (<em>Oya\/Divinite de l&#8217;Air et de la mort<\/em>), well above the $2m-3m guide price&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diego_Rivera\" target=\"_blank\">Diego Rivera&#8217;s<\/a> 1939 painting <em>Girl in Blue and White<\/em>, considered the main attraction, remained unsold.<\/p>\n<p>The work by the Mexican artist had been expected to sell at a price between $4m and $6m.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Lam&#8217;s piece, which had been in private hands since 1947, sold for more than double the previous top price for his paintings.<\/p>\n<p>An Afro-Cuban, Lam died in 1982 and was heavily influenced both by surrealism and by santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1_religion\" target=\"_blank\">Yor\u00f9b\u00e1<\/a> and Roman Catholic beliefs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-18187258\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam fetches record price BBC News 2012-05-24 A painting by Cuban surrealist artist Wifredo Lam fetched a record personal price at a Latin American art sale at auctioneers Sotheby&#8217;s in New York. An unnamed South American collector paid $4.5m (\u00a32.9m) for Lam&#8217;s 1944 Idol (Oya\/Divinite de l&#8217;Air et de la mort), well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,21,20],"tags":[8597,673,9919,9920],"class_list":["post-23430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-usa","tag-bbc-news","tag-cuba","tag-wifredo-lam","tag-wifredo-oscar-de-la-concepcion-lam-y-castilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42566,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23430\/revisions\/42566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}