
Property from a Private Collection, California
Retrato de Delfina Flores
Session begins in
May 20, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 USD
Bid
160,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, California
Diego Rivera
1886 - 1957
Retrato de Delfina Flores
signed Diego Rivera and dated 27 (lower right); signed Diego Rivera and dated Mexico 1927 (on the reverse)
encaustic on canvas
16 ¼ by 12 ⅛ in.
41.3 by 30.8 cm.
Executed in 1927.
We wish to thank Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his kind assistance in confirming the authenticity of this lot.
Albert Bender, San Francisco (acquired directly from the artist through Ralph Stackpole)
Beaux-Arts Galleries, San Francisco (acquired from the above)
Mrs. Eldridge Spencer, San Francisco (acquired from the above)
Mrs. Irma Rudin, San Francisco (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 5 April 1978, lot 11 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 27 November 1984, lot 19 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, San Juan (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1990, lot 11 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, California (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Diego Rivera: Cincuenta Años de su Labor Artistica, 1951, no. 742, n.p., illustrated
San Francisco Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1955, no. 72
Bertram D. Wolfe, Portrait of Mexico, London and New York, 1937, no. 26, n.p., illustrated
Antonio Souza, "Los niños mexicanos pintados por Diego Rivera," Artes de México, vol. 5, issue 27, July 1959, no. 11, n.p., illustrated
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, eds., Diego Rivera: Catálogo General de Obra de Caballete, Mexico City, 1989, no. 732, p. 99, illustrated
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