"Le Monde Magique de la Fertilité" by Wilfredo Lam

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Ended:February 22nd 2018, 12:25pm EST

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The Prize

Work of art by Wilfredo Lam

Sagua la Grande, Cuba, December 8, 1902 – Paris, September 11, 1982

Aquatint etching – sheet 38 x 54 cm (etching 24.5 x 36.5 cm)
Copy XV/XX – Year: 1980

Engraved stamp on front.

A great early 20th century painter, Wifredo Lam blended elements of Cubism and Surrealism with African culture in paintings on display alongside those of Pablo Picasso and other Cubists and Fauves.

Lam studied in Spain under the same teacher as Salvador Dalí and became friends with Picasso soon after his arrival in Paris in 1938. After returning to Havana in 1941, Lam began to produce paintings dominated by hybrid human-animal-plant figures. It was there in Cuba that he created his most famous work, The Jungle (1943). With four grotesque figures with mask-like faces just barely discernable in the dense vegetation, his work has been compared to Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica (1937).

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The Cause

Founded in 1980, AMO lavita ONLUS is composed of the medical and nursing staff of the Operative Unit of Oncology of Milan’s San Carlo Borromeo Hospital as well as volunteers. Supporting the sick and their families is the aim of the association.

The association works to welcome oncological patients, help patients suffering from alopecia due to chemotherapy and support them in choosing a wig, give bed-ridden patients emotional support from specialized professional counselors, conduct scientific research projects on tumors, organize conferences to spread knowledge concerning oncologic disease, help transfer patients who live at home and who have economic difficulties getting from their home to the hospital and back, provide urgent tests directly at the patients’ houses, and help empower senior patients dismissed by the San Carlo Hospital, allowing them to access treatments.

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