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Stamp by Wifredo Lam
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsA tribute to Wifredo Lam
En 1952, Wifredo Lam s’établit définitivement à Paris où il s’éteint le 11 septembre 1982. Il aurait eu 80 ans trois mois plus tard. Selon la volonté du peintre, ses cendres sont transférées à Cuba où seront organisées des funérailles nationales. En hommage posthume, est créé sur son île natale le « Centre Wifredo Lam » pour la promotion et l’étude des Arts Plastiques du Tiers-Monde. A sa mémoire, la fleur d’un paradisier, comme une bouteille lancée à la mer du souvenir.
". . . . Tels sont les ancêtres que Wifredo Lam revendique et, plus que personne, il représente l'héritage de la convulsion de l'homme et de la terre. Le Nouveau Monde !" - Michel Leiris
"J'aurais pu être un bon peintre de l'Ecole de Paris, mais je me sentais comme un escargot hors de sa coquille. Ce qui vraiment élargit ma peinture, c'est la présence de la poésie africaine." - Wifredo Lam
"L'homme, dit un proverbe des Dogons de la bouche du Niger, est le grain de l'univers." - Wifredo Lam
"Parti de Picasso, à qui il doit, non pas une écriture, mais l'esprit de libération, l'audace de s'exprimer en pleine possession d'un magistral clavier de peinture, il enferme dans le cadre du classicisme occidental les attributs de la magie et de la poésie tropicales." - Pierre Loeb
"A Cuba, nous sommes tous comme cela ! Des types comme ce magicien, il y en a partout dans l'île." - Wifredo Lam
"Séparer Wifredo Lam d'une certaine ancestralité serait aussi déraisonnable que de trouver en celle-ci un déterminisme auquel son oeuvre ne pouvait échapper." - Max-Pol Fouchet
Notes of biography
Wifredo Lam was born in 1902 in Sagua la Grande (Cuba). He was Yam Lam’s son, a Chinese emigrant who gave him birth in 84 years, and of Ana-Serafina, a Cuban halfcaste. He studied Law before leaving his island in 1923 for Spain.
Wifredo Lam knew that he could be only a creator, a painter or a poet; also he joined the Artcollege of Madrid where he would work in the painter Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor’s atelier. His first personal exhibition was organized in 1928. The work of Wifredo Lam was in its halfcaste history (China, Africa, and the Antilles). The artist was notably inspired by Africans who brought in Cuba « their primitive culture, their magic religion, and its mystic aspect in narrow correspondence with the nature ».
During the Spanish civil war, Wifredo Lam fought for the republicans. He was obliged to take refuge in France in 1937; there, he met Picasso who helped him to find his place in the Parisian artistic environment and introduced him to his friends (Michel Leiris, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, Léger, Braque, Miro, Christian Zervos, Matisse, etc.). In 1939, Lam got acquainted with Benjamin Peret; he joined André Breton and the surrealist movement. He painted, drew, etched imaginary and baroque worlds stemming from « the automatism of the thought ». Lam often worked by series. He made (1941), together with a group of surrealist artists, a journey in his native country. Wifredo Lam created human or animal forms that he laid into exuberant environments.
Later, the artist stylized his figures which became subjects-totems, "intimate confession" of his existence. He did an important graphic work (lithographs and etchings), illustrations for numerous works, wall frescoes, ceramics and terra-cottas.
Wifredo Lam died in Paris in 1982. According to the painter’s will, his ashes were transferred in Cuba, where was created in posthumous honoring, the "Centre Wifredo Lam" for the promotion and the study of the Third World-Plastic Arts.
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To read about the artist :
- « Wifredo Lam », M. Leiris, Abrams, New York, et Fratelli Fabbri, Milan, 1970
- « Lam », Alain Jouffroy, Ed. Georges Fall, Paris, 1970
- « Wifredo Lam », MAM de la Ville de Paris, 1982
- « Wifredo Lam », Max-Paul Fouchet, Poligrafa, Barcelone, Ed. Albin Michel, 1983
- « W. Lam, les années cubaines », Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris, 1989
- « W. Lam and the international Avant-garde », L. S. Sims, Texas Univ. Press, 2002
- « Lam et les poètes », D. Abadie, cat. d'expo., Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Ed. Hazan, 2005
- « Lam », Jacques Leenhardt, H.C. Ed., Paris, 2009
- « W. Lam ou l'inventivité de la marge », D. Berthet, in revue Archipélies n°1, 2010
- « Wifredo Lam », collectif, cat. d'expo., Ed. Centre Georges Pompidou, 2015
To read from the artist :
- « Premier bilan de l’Art actuel, 1937-1953 », in Positions, Soleil Noir, 1953
- « My Life with Wifredo Lam 1939-1950 », H. Benitez, Ed. Acatos, 1999
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Stamp by Wifredo Lam
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsA tribute to Wifredo Lam
En 1952, Wifredo Lam s’établit définitivement à Paris où il s’éteint le 11 septembre 1982. Il aurait eu 80 ans trois mois plus tard. Selon la volonté du peintre, ses cendres sont transférées à Cuba où seront organisées des funérailles nationales. En hommage posthume, est créé sur son île natale le « Centre Wifredo Lam » pour la promotion et l’étude des Arts Plastiques du Tiers-Monde. A sa mémoire, la fleur d’un paradisier, comme une bouteille lancée à la mer du souvenir.
". . . . Tels sont les ancêtres que Wifredo Lam revendique et, plus que personne, il représente l'héritage de la convulsion de l'homme et de la terre. Le Nouveau Monde !" - Michel Leiris
"J'aurais pu être un bon peintre de l'Ecole de Paris, mais je me sentais comme un escargot hors de sa coquille. Ce qui vraiment élargit ma peinture, c'est la présence de la poésie africaine." - Wifredo Lam
"L'homme, dit un proverbe des Dogons de la bouche du Niger, est le grain de l'univers." - Wifredo Lam
"Parti de Picasso, à qui il doit, non pas une écriture, mais l'esprit de libération, l'audace de s'exprimer en pleine possession d'un magistral clavier de peinture, il enferme dans le cadre du classicisme occidental les attributs de la magie et de la poésie tropicales." - Pierre Loeb
"A Cuba, nous sommes tous comme cela ! Des types comme ce magicien, il y en a partout dans l'île." - Wifredo Lam
"Séparer Wifredo Lam d'une certaine ancestralité serait aussi déraisonnable que de trouver en celle-ci un déterminisme auquel son oeuvre ne pouvait échapper." - Max-Pol Fouchet
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