The present work, accented with deep grey, red and yellow, is the only piece from Torres-García’s landmark series that is not painted in black and white, and is one of few works from the series remaining in private hands. Surrealist paintings by Matta and Wifredo Lam also appear in the sale. Let Any Flower Bloom (estimate $800,000/1 million) was executed as Matta began to delve deeper into automatism – a device for the articulation of signs and activation of hidden emotions – after moving to Paris in the spring of 1955. As he entered the 1950s, Matta had matured the complexities of his earlier anthropomorphism and reoriented his original conception of infinite fictional space. The amplitude of his ambitious Parisian canvases is reflected in the visual structure and chromatic freedom that dominate the present composition. Here on Earth (Ici sur la terre) is an outstanding example of Wifredo Lam’s complex style (estimate $600/800,000). Painted in 1955, the present work was executed during a transitional year for the artist, in which he began to forge a new path in painting that was embraced by European Surrealists who believed Lam embodied the primitivist ideals of their movement. The horned bird depicted in the work references the artist’s childhood experience of observing a bat trapped in his bedroom. For Lam, this formative incident marked a key moment of understanding human consciousness and the passage of time; its inclusion heralds a critical moment of transition in his mature painting, as he began to integrate his mystical iconography with symbols of deep personal significance.