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Property from a Private Collection, California

Diego Rivera

Retrato de Delfina Flores

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, California

Diego Rivera

1886 - 1957


Retrato de Delfina Flores

signed Diego Rivera and dated 27 (lower right); signed Diego Rivera and dated Mexico 1927 (on the reverse)

encaustic on canvas

16 ¼ by 12 ⅛ in.

41.3 by 30.8 cm.

Executed in 1927.


We wish to thank Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his kind assistance in confirming the authenticity of this lot.

Albert Bender, San Francisco (acquired from the artist through Ralph Stackpole)

Beaux-Arts Galleries, San Francisco (acquired from the above)

Mrs. Eldridge Spencer, San Francisco (acquired from the above)

Mrs. Irma Rudin, San Francisco (acquired from the above)

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 5 April 1978, lot 11 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 27 November 1984, lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Puerto Rico (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1990, lot 11 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, California (acquired from the above)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Diego Rivera: Cincuenta Años de su Labor Artistica, 1951, no. 742, n.p., illustrated 

San Francisco Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1955, no. 72

Bertram D. Wolfe, Portrait of Mexico, London & New York 1937, no. 26, n.p., illustrated

Antonio Souza,  "Los niños mexicanos pintados por Diego Rivera," Artes de México, vol. 5, issue 27, July 1959, no. 11, n.p., illustrated

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Diego Rivera: Catálogo General de Obra de Caballete, Mexico City 1989, no. 732, p. 99, illustrated