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Property from a Private Collection, Philadelphia

Diego Rivera

Mercado de Flores (Grupo de ocho mujeres)

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Philadelphia

Diego Rivera

1886 - 1957


Mercado de Flores (Grupo de ocho mujeres)

signed Diego Rivera and dated 1936 (lower right)

tempera on linen mounted on Masonite

23 ¾ by 32 ⅛ in.

60 by 82 cm.

Executed in 1936.


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

Private Collection, Pennsylvania (acquired directly from the artist circa 1936)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Diego Rivera: Catálogo General de Obra de Caballete, Mexico, 1989, no. 1285, p. 169, illustrated (titled Tehuanas en el mercado)