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

Fidelio Ponce de Léon

Five Women

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Fidelio Ponce de Léon

1895 - 1949


Five Women

signed F Ponce and dated 41 (upper right)

oil and gouache on board laid down on canvas

33½ by 41¼ in.

85 by 104.8 cm.

Executed in 1941.

Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo Rodriguez Correa, Havana
Alfred Hitchcock, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1944)
Private Collection, California (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 1991, lot 37 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cuban Painting Today, 1944
Alfred Hitchcock, Rope, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1948 (video)

Edward J. Sullivan, ed., Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century, London 1996, no. 86, p. 87, illustrated in color