Wifredo LAM - Black Figure - Screenprint signed in pencil

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Wifredo Lam : (1902-1982) Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla, aka Wifredo Lam, was born in Sagua La Grande, (Cuba) on December 8th, 1902 and died in Paris on September 11th, 1982. Cuban painter, and promoter of a mixed-race painting, blending occidental modernism and african & caribbean symbols, thus creating a singular and contemporary langage. He was close to Picasso, the surrealists as well, who considered him as one of theirs. He also rubbed shoulders with the Imaginistes, Phases and CoBrA.