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Roi-mangue

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Author

By (artist) Wifredo Lam

Description

" Those who Picasso sent, or even accompanied, to Lam's first exhibition at the Galerie Pierre in 1938 would have seen him - he, who was so critical of his own work - quite delighted by someone else's. It should be noted as well that he never tired of encouraging Lam, first seeing to it that he never lacked for light nor space nor materials to paint; and then looking after the canvases the artist left in Paris lest they get lost. It is probable that in Lam, Picasso found the sole confirmation he could trust - that of a man who had followed the same path, but in the opposite direction-beginning at the wondrous primitive which lived in him and assimilating all the most complicated disciplines of European art to attain the highest point of consciousness, that point where he also encountered the artist. "
André Breton

Bibliography

- Alain Jouffroy, « La collection André Breton », In : L'Oeil, n° 10, octobre 1955, rep.p. 35-36 (sous le titre Le Roi manque)
- Paris, Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, La beauté convulsive, 1991, rep.pp. 77, 79, 372; l'étiquette au dos.
- Lou Laurin-Lam, Wifredo Lam, Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Volume I 1923-1960, Lausanne, Sylvio Acatos, 1996, rep.p. 350, n° 44.35.