Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

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

FRIDA KAHLO | CONGRESO DE LOS PUEBLOS POR LA PAZ

Auction Closed

June 30, 03:09 AM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

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

FRIDA KAHLO

1907 - 1954

CONGRESO DE LOS PUEBLOS POR LA PAZ


Signed Frida Kahlo (lower center); dated Oct 52 (lower right)

Oil and tempera on canvas mounted on Masonite

8 by 10 in.

20.3 by 25.4 cm

Painted in October, 1952.

Ramis Barquet, New York

Acquired from the above 

Raquel Tibol, Frida Kahlo: Crónica, testimonios y aproximaciones, Mexico City, 1977, illustrated pl. 17

Martha Zamora, El pincel de la angustía: Frida, Mexico City, 1987, illustrated in color p. 364

Helga Prignitz Poda, et al., Frida Kahlo, Das Gesamtwerk, Frankfurt, 1988, no. 131, illustrated p. 170 

Luis-Martín Lozano, et al., Frida Kahlo, Mexico City & Milan, 2000, illustrated in color p. 231 

Salomon Grimberg, Frida Kahlo: The Still Lifes, New York, 2008, illustrated in color p. 124