MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS | ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD
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May 1, 04:19 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Texas Collection
MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS
1904 - 1957
ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD
signed
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
Sheet: 10¼ by 8½ in. (26 by 21.6 cm.)
Framed: 20 by 18¼ in. (50.8 by 46.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1934.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Adriana Williams.
Marian Nasso, Florida
Galería Windsor, Mexico
Latin American Fine Art, Brownsville
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mexico City, Pablo Goebel Fine Arts Gallery and New York, Throckmorton Gallery, Recorriendo el mundo del chamaco Covarrubias, 2017-18, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue (titled El conquistador, que no llegó a la Antártida)
Beverly J. Cox & Denna Jones Anderson, Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures, Washington, D.C. 1985, illustration of another version p. 105
This work is a second version of a gouache published in Vanity Fair in December 1934, now held in the collection of the United States Library of Congress.