Wifredo Lam Works Online
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Original works by Wifredo Lam available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
6 works online
Wifredo Lam at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Les Yeux de la grille, 1942
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
9 works online when last checked
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain (in Spanish) 
(Works are shown at the right, under "Obras")
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Wifredo Lam in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (mostly in French)
L'attendu, 1942
Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid, Spain (in Spanish)
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Les enfants sans âme, 1964
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
The Casting of the Spell, 1956
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Menil Collection, Texas
Arpas cardinales, also titled Les visiteurs [Nénomita]
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Woman, Bust-length, ca.1939
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Arte Latinoamericano
La Mañana Verde, 1943
La Vielle, 1959
The Art of Roberto Matta
For the Wilfredo Lam gallery, scroll down towards the bottom of the "Galleries" frame
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Time Magazine
"Taking Back his Own Gods", 1993 article by Robert Hughes
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