Miguel Covarrubias

Rhapsody in Blue

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Miguel Covarrubias

1904 - 1957

Rhapsody in Blue

signed Covarrubias (lower right)

oil on canvas

25¼ by 31 in.

64.2 by 78.7 cm.

Executed in 1927.

Please refer to sothebys.com for an updated image and exhibition history for this lot.

Paul Whiteman, Santa Bridge, Pennsylvania
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 26 November 1985, lot 77 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Miguel Covarrubias, Negro Drawings, New York, 1927, no. 53, illustrated
Lucía García-Noriega y Nieto, Miguel Covarrubias Homenaje, Mexico City, 1987, no. 53, p. 100, illustrated in color; also illustrated in color as a frontispiece

Mexico City, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Exposición histórica (Miguel Covarrubias), 1998