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Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

Miguel Covarrubias

Retrato de Diego

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

Miguel Covarrubias

1904 - 1957


Retrato de Diego

signed Covarrubias (lower right)

watercolor and brush and ink on paper

11 ½ by 8 ½ in.

29.2 by 21.6 cm.

Executed circa 1920.

Ferargil Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 1980, lot 151 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Natasha Gelman, Mexico City (acquired by 1987)

Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired by descent from the above in 1998)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Vienna, Messepalast and Dallas Museum of Art, Images of Mexico: The Contribution of Mexico to 20th Century Art, 1987-88, no. 44, p. 277, illustrated in color (titled Caricatura de Diego Rivera)

Mexico City, Centro Cultural | Arte Contemporáneo, La colección de pintura Mexicana de Jacques y Natasha Gelman, 1992, no. 1, p. 39, illustrated in color; p. 172

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1996, p. 84, pl. 1, illustrated in color

Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Peinture Moderne au Mexique: Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman, 1999, n.n., p. 37, illustrated in color

Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa and Rio de Janeiro, Paço Imperial, Arte Mexicano, Colección Jacques y Natasha Gelman, 1999, no. 37, p. 92, illustrated in color; p. 110

San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art; Dallas Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2000-01, no. 26, p. 41, illustrated; p. 78, illustrated in color; p. 196

Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2001-02, n.n., p. 37, illustrated in color; p. 87

Puebla, Galería de Arte Contemporaneo y Diseño, Kahlo, Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros: y el color del siglo que se fue. La colección completa de Jacques y Natasha Gelman en Puebla, 2002, n.n., p. 27, illustrated in color; p. 228

New York, El Museo del Barrio, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2002

Ishøj, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Frida Kahlo: A Life in Art, 2013-14, no. 30, p. 108

Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Frida Kahlo e Diego Rivera, 2014-15, no. 177, p. 231, illustrated in color; p. 273

Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, NSU Museum of Art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection & 20th Century Mexican Art from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection, 2015, n.n., pp. 30 and 37, fig. 12, illustrated in color

Denver Art Museum; Albuquerque Museum and West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2020-22

Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Centro Cultural | Arte Contemporáneo, Miguel Covarrubias: homenaje, 1987, p. 13, illustrated in color (titled Caricatura de Diego Rivera)

Hayden Herrera, Pierre Schneider and Raquel Tibol, La colección Gelman: selecciones, Cuernavaca, 2004, p. 14, illustrated in color; p. 134

Rebeca Orozco, El Chamaco Covarrubias: Basado en pinturas y palabras del artista, Mexico City, 2007, pp. 12 and 34, illustrated in color