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Portfolio box for Le feu vert (The Green Light)
Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902–1982)
1973–74
Medium/Technique
Brown cloth-covered portfolio box for the portfolio of six color lithographs with title page
Dimensions
Overall: 73 × 52.7 × 2.5 cm (28 3/4 × 20 3/4 × 1 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift in memory of Antonio F. Cao
Accession Number2019.64.8
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Portfolios
Catalogue Raisonné
Tonneau-Ryckelynck 298-303 (7402-7407)
DescriptionPrinted by Edizione d'arte Torcular, Milan
Published by Studio Forini, Zagreb
Published by Studio Forini, Zagreb
ProvenanceSold by the printer and publisher, Edizione d'arte Torcular, Milan, to Simona Aldrovandi, Bologna, Italy; 2013, sold by Simona Aldrovandi to Bernardo Navarro Tomas, Brooklyn, New York; 2017, sold by Bernardo Navarro Tomas to anonymous collector, Cambridge, MA; 2019, gift of anonymous collector to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 20, 2019)