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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate

Miguel Covarrubias

The Robinson Crusoe Legend Draws Tourist Steamers to Más-á-Tierra in the Juan Fernandez Islands

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October 1, 05:11 PM GMT

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12,000 - 18,000 USD

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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate

Miguel Covarrubias

1904 - 1957


The Robinson Crusoe Legend Draws Tourist Steamers to Más-á-Tierra in the Juan Fernandez Islands

inscribed San Juan Bautista (upper right)

brush and ink and gouache on paper

14 by 9 ⅞ in.

35.6 by 25 cm.

Executed in 1953.

Private Collection

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exxon Corp., "Oil and the Faraway Islands," The Lamp, vol. 35, issue 1, June 1953, p. 20, illustrated