The Jungle  1943

Gouache on paper mounted on canvas [br]94 1/4 x 90 1/2" (239.4 x 229.9 cm) MOMA "Lam painted The Jungle, his masterpiece, two years after returning to his native Cuba from Europe, where he had been a member of the Surrealist movement. The work, “intended to communicate a psychic state,” Lam said, depicts a group of figures with crescentshaped faces that recall African...