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Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Diego Rivera

Construction of Rockefeller Center (Four Works)

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection

Diego Rivera

1886 - 1957

Sketches for Mural at Rockefeller Center (Four Works) 


i. & ii.: signed Diego Rivera and dated 32 (lower left) 

iv.: signed Diego Rivera (lower right) 

watercolor and pencil on paper 

i., ii. & iv: 5 3/8 by 7 in. (13.7 by 17.8 cm.)

iii.: 7 by 5 3/8 in. (17.8 by 13.7 cm.)

Executed in 1932. 


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

Please note the title of this work has been updated.
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City 
Lester Wolfe, New York (acquired from the above) 
Sotheby's New York, 29 May 1984, lot 26 (consigned by the above) 
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 3-6, pp. 48-49 & 244, illustrated in color