The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Federico Cantú
Retrato de mi nieto
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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Federico Cantú
1908 - 1989
Retrato de mi nieto
signed Federico Cantú and dated AD MCMLV (lower right)
oil on canvas
31⅞ by 20 in.
81 by 50.8 cm.
Executed in 1955.
Private Collection, Mexico (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, El Retrato Mexicano Contemporaneo, 1961, no. 71, n.p., illustrated (titled Mi nieto en traje de retacitos)
Mexico City, Museo Amparo, Federico Cantú: Los látigos de las líneas, 1994 (titled Retacitos)
Sofía Verea de Bernal, "The Child in Modern Art," Artes de México, vol. XVII, issue 129, 1970, p. 89, illustrated
Lupina Lara Elizondo, Referencias de Picasso en México: ocho pintores (1900-1950), Mexico City, 2005, p. 227, illustrated in color
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