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Property of a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

José Clemente Orozco

The Greek Poem (Eleven Women)

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November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

José Clemente Orozco

1883 - 1949


The Greek Poem (Eleven Women)

signed J.C. Orozco (lower right)

gouache on paper

13 ⅞ by 20 in.

35 by 51 cm.

Executed in 1935.

Alberto Misrachi, Mexico City
Dr. and Mrs. MacKinley Helm, Santa Barbara (acquired from the above)
Dr. John Gillespie, California (acquired from the above)
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 11 November 1974, lot 132B (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, California (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, California (acquired by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Boston, Institute of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery; Cleveland Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Modern Mexican Painters, 1941-1942, no. 27, p. 44, illustrated 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1947-1949 (on loan)
Amherst College Galleries, May 1952
Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Pasadena Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Cleveland Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art, J.C. Orozco Memorial Exhibition, 1953-1954 
San Antonio, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, Jose Clemente Orozco: Paintings and Drawings, 1959
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Painted Papers, 1962
Guadalajara, Instituto Cultural Cabañas and Mexico City, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, José Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, 2010-2011, no. 267, p. 331, illustrated in color
MacKinley Helm, Man of Fire: J. C. Orozco; An Interpretative Memoir, New York 1953, no. 27, p. 173, illustrated (titled Eleven Women)