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

Miguel Covarrubias

Easter Island

Lot Closed

March 5, 05:34 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Miguel Covarrubias

1904 - 1957


Easter Island

signed Covarrubias (lower right); signed with the initials MC and inscribed (on the verso)

tempera on paper

12⅞ by 9⅞ in.

32.7 by 25 cm.

Executed in 1953.

Swann Galleries, New York, 9 March 2000, lot 151

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exxon Corp., "Oil and the Faraway Islands," The Lamp, vol. 35, issue 1, June 1953, illustrated in color on the cover (similar example)