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Miguel Covarrubias

Dos Balinesas

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Miguel Covarrubias

1904 - 1957

Dos Balinesas


watercolor, pastel and black conté crayon on paper 

15 5/8 by 11 ¼ in.

39.7 by 28.6 cm.

Executed in 1930. 

Please note the cataloguing has been updated for this lot.
Private Collection (acquired from the artist)
Christie's New York, 16 May 1991, lot 157 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Miguel Covarrubias, Island of Bali, New York, 1937, frontispiece, illustrated in color

Miguel Covarrubias, "La isla de bali (extractos)," Saber ver: lo contemporáneo del arte, no. 39, March - April 1998, illustrated in color p. 61