Wifredo Lam
Deity
1941
Scroll
Wifredo Lam
Deity
1941
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor and charcoal, Sheet: 1048 × 845 mm. (41 1/4 × 33 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.318
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; from Saidie A. May; purchased from Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1942
Vancouver Art Museum, "Surrealism: The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art," May 28 - September 25, 2011.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler, 2/8- 4/21/2002, no. 17 pp. 16.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., "Assignment Rescue: The Story of Vatian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee," June - September 1993.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Dada and Surrealism: A Selection," 1 March - 24 April, 1977.
BMA, "Saidie A. May Collection," 6 September - 22 November 1972, p. 84.
BMA, "Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," March 1950, cat. no. 58.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler, 2/8- 4/21/2002, no. 17 pp. 16.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., "Assignment Rescue: The Story of Vatian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee," June - September 1993.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Dada and Surrealism: A Selection," 1 March - 24 April, 1977.
BMA, "Saidie A. May Collection," 6 September - 22 November 1972, p. 84.
BMA, "Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," March 1950, cat. no. 58.
Martica Sawin, "Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School," Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997, illus. p. 238.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting", United States: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 199.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: lower right in black ink: "Wilfredo Lam 7-1942"
