DIEGO RIVERA (1886-1957)
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ID 1380882
Lot 18 | DIEGO RIVERA (1886-1957)
Estimate value
300000USD $ 300 000 – 400 000
El balcón
signed and dated 'Diego Rivera 21' (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 ¼ x 25 ¾ in. (79.4 x 65.4 cm.)
Painted in 1921.
Provenance
Roberto Montenegro, Mexico City
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New York
The Estate of Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York
Sale; Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 1980, lot 70
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 26 May 2015, lot 126
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
B. Wolfe, Portrait of Mexico, 1937, n. 81 (illustrated).
D. Rivera, Catálogo general de obra de caballete, 1989, n. 436, p. 63 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Diego Rivera, 23 December 1931-27 January 1932, n. 19 (illustrated).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Oils and Murals by the Mexican Painter, Diego Rivera, 3 February-1 March 1932.
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Diego Rivera: 50 años de su labor artística, 1951, n. 225 (illustrated).
Detroit Institute of Arts, 10 February-27 April 1986; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2 June-10 August 1986; Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 29 September 1986-4 January 1987; Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 17 February-4 June 1987; West Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, 23 July-15 September 1987; London, Hayward Gallery, 29 October 1987-10 January 1988, Diego Rivera: A Retrospective, n. 80, p. 56 (illustrated in color)
Further details
We are grateful to Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his assistance cataloguing this work.
Artist: | Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Mexico |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Mexico |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
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