# They will auction 'The Meeting', by Cuban Wifredo Lam at Christie's

**Date:** 10/25/2021

Christie's will auction the painting The Meeting, by Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, on November 11, which could reach a value of between three and four million dollars, according to the auction house.

Christie's, which describes the work, executed in 1942, as one of Lam's "most important artistic works", notes that the piece will be on display at its Los Angeles headquarters until October 23 and in New York, where it will be auctioned, between October 30 and November 11.

Christie's Latin American painting specialist Marysol Nieves qualified The Meeting as an exceptional example of Lam from the early 1940s, "a decade in which the artist reached his full maturity".

"This monumental work masterfully captures everything that is Lam –his singular contribution to the history of modern art– the convergence of twentieth-century avant-garde practices with the cosmologies of the New World", added the expert.

The painting to be auctioned by the firm was painted in La Habana in 1942, after the artist had lived in Europe since the 1920s, where he interacted with artists and intellectuals such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Breton.

Christie's insists that The Meeting is a "wonderful example" of the artist's work, which includes his characteristic horse with a woman's head, which first appeared in the artist's work in 1940.

Inspired by Bretón's poetry and the work of post-cubists and surrealists, including Picasso, "the horse-woman is an amalgam of European modernism and Afro-Cuban divinity".

Despite its high value, the estimated price of The Meeting falls far short of the 9.6 million dollars paid in June 2020 for the painting Omi Obini in a Sotheby's auction, the largest amount disbursed for a piece by the Cuban artist in a public sale.