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Hommage à Picasso [Homage to Picasso]
Primary
Wifredo Lam
(Sagua la Grande, Cuba, 1902–Paris, France, 1982)
Printer
Erker Presse
NationalityCuban, North America
Date1973
MediumColor lithograph
DimensionsSheet: 29 3/4 × 22 in. (75.6 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Charles and Dorothy Clark, G1974.12.1
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object numberG1974.12.1
On View
Not on viewLam made Homage à Picasso [Homage to Picasso] in 1973, the year Picasso passed away. Its distinctive compositional flatness evokes Lam’s interest in Oceanic sculpture, which he collected along with African art, and exemplifies the formal complexity that defines his oeuvre
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