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Miguel Covarrubias

El hueso

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Miguel Covarrubias

1904 - 1957

El hueso


signed Covarrubias (lower right) 

casein on paper

14 by 10 in.

35.6 by 26 cm.

Executed circa 1940. 

Fred Davis, Mexico City
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Stanley Marcus, Dallas (acquired from the above in 1951)  
Sotheby's New York, 19 November 2002, lot 1 (consigned by the estate of the above) 
Acquired from the above by the present owner