CÂNDIDO PORTINARI | PORTRAIT OF MARY ROCKEFELLER
Estimate:
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Property from a Private Connecticut Collection
CÂNDIDO PORTINARI
(1903 - 1962)
PORTRAIT OF MARY ROCKEFELLER
Signed Portinari and dated 1941 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
18¼ by 15⅛ in. (46.4 by 38.4 cm)
Painted in 1941.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller (commissioned from the artist in 1941)
Private Collection, Washington, D.C.
Private Collection, Connecticut
Acquired from the above in 2016
"Em sete semanas pintou mais de 100 metros quadrados de parede," in Diário da Noite, Rio de Janeiro, January 22, 1942, n.p.
Marcos André, "Candinho," in O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, February 12, 1962, n.p.
Marcos André, "De como perdi meu Portinari," in O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, May 19, 1971, n.p.
João Cândido Portinari et al., Cândido Portinari Catálogo Raisonné, vol. II, Rio de Janeiro, 2004, no. 1572 [FCO 3816], illustrated in color p. 265