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

Agustín Arrieta

La familia mexicana (La pensativa or Tipos populares)

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May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

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

Agustín Arrieta

1802 - 1879


La familia mexicana (La pensativa or Tipos populares)

signed Arrieta and dated 1851 (lower center)

oil on canvas

36½ by 44½ in.

92.7 by 113 cm.

Executed in 1851.

Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired from the artist)
Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 27 May 2003, lot 33 (consigned by the above)
Galería Ramis Barquet, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Francisco Cabrera, Agustín Arrieta, Pintor costumbrista, Mexico 1963, pl. I, illustrated in color, pp. 61, illustrated and 62, illustrated (detail)
Justino Fernández, El Arte del Siglo XIX en México, Mexico 1967, p. 113
Francisco Cabrera, Agustín Arrieta, Mexico 1991, p. 89, illustrated in color
Efrain Castro Morales and Xavier Moyssén, José Agustin Arrieta: Su Tiempo, Vida y Obra, Mexico City 1994, p. 239, illustrated in color
Puebla, La Casa de la Cultura de Puebla, 1984
Mexico City, Palacio de Iturbide, Monumento Histórico del Siglo XVIII, 1988