Fidel Castro in his Pyjamas, 1965
- by Alberto Korda
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An unnamed South American collector paid $4.5m for [Cuban artist Wifredo] Lam’s 1944 Idol (Oya/Divinite de l’Air et de la mort), well above the $2m-3m guide price.
Lam’s piece, which had been in private hands since 1947, sold for more than double the previous top price for his paintings.
Lam, who died in 1982, was of mixed race heritage. His father was Chinese and his mother was of African, European and indigenous Cuban descent.
He was heavily influenced both by surrealism and by santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Yoruba and Roman Catholic beliefs.
Wednesday’s auction, with sales totalling $21.8m, was Sotheby’s best result for an evening sale of Latin American art to date.
(From BBC News)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4sz6oL7aG1qfr8zko1_250.jpg)
An unnamed South American collector paid $4.5m for [Cuban artist Wifredo] Lam’s 1944 Idol (Oya/Divinite de l’Air et de la mort), well above the $2m-3m guide price.
Lam’s piece, which had been in private hands since 1947, sold for more than double the previous top price for his paintings.
Lam, who died in 1982, was of mixed race heritage. His father was Chinese and his mother was of African, European and indigenous Cuban descent.
He was heavily influenced both by surrealism and by santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Yoruba and Roman Catholic beliefs.
Wednesday’s auction, with sales totalling $21.8m, was Sotheby’s best result for an evening sale of Latin American art to date.
(From BBC News)
