MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS | Admiral Richard E. Byrd

Marian Nasso, Florida
Galería Windsor, Mexico 
Latin American Fine Art, Brownsville, Texas
Acquired from the above 

Mexico City, Pablo Goebel Fine Arts Gallery & New York, Throckmorton Gallery, Recorriendo el mundo del chamaco Covarrubias, 2017-18, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue (titled El conquistador, que no llegó a la Antártida)

Beverly J. Cox & Denna Jones Anderson, Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures, Washington, D.C., 1985, illustration of another version p. 105

This work is in good condition overall. The sheet has been hinged to the passepartout. The colors are vibrant, and the media layer is stable.
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This work is a second version of a gouache published in Vanity Fair in December 1934, now held in the collection of the United States Library of Congress.  "As the first man to fly over the North Pole, in May 1926, Richard Byrd was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and became an international hero. However, his later expeditions to the Antarctic in 1928 and 1933, heavily financed by wealthy investors (CBS and the New York Times had also purchased rights to his story), were criticized because he had named the topography after his backers. Byrd is depicted in this caricature during his five-month, self-imposed isolation at Advance Base on the 1933-1935 expedition to the South Pole." 

Beverly J. Cox and Denna Jones Anderson, Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures, Washington, D.C., 1985, p. 105



This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Adriana Williams.