Monday May 9, 2022
Wilfredo Lam (Cuban, 1902-1982)
Mother and Child, 1939, Gouache on paper, 41” x 29"
Wilfredo Lam was a Cuban-born artist, best known for his large-scale paintings which reference modernist aesthetics and Afro-Cuban imagery to explore themes of social injustice, spirituality, and rebirth.