ALICE RAHON | SELF-PORTRAIT (AUTORRETRATO)

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

ALICE RAHON

1916 - 1987

SELF-PORTRAIT (AUTORRETRATO)

Signed Alice Rahon and dated 51 (lower left)

Oil on canvas

36 by 23¾ in. (91.4 by 60.2 cm)

Framed: 45¾ by 33 in. (116.2 by 83.8 cm)

Painted in 1951.

Luis Felipe del Valle Prieto, Mexico City

Private Collection, Monterrey (and sold: Christie's, New York, June 1, 2007, lot 51)

Acquired at the above sale

Nancy Deffebach, "Alice Rahon: Paintings in Free Verse," in Latin American Art, Summer 1990, illustrated in color p. 43

Whitney Chadwick, Farewell to the Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism, London, 2017, n.n., illustrated in color p. 144