Cuban surrealist Lam painting tops auction at $4.5m
A painting by Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam, named for an African Yoruba goddess also worshipped in the Caribbean, led Sotheby’s strongest Latin American evening art sale ever on Wednesday night, Reuters reports. Setting an auction record for Lam, the 1944 Idolo (Oya/Divinit‚ de l’Air et de la mort), fetched $4.56 million from a South American…
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