DIEGO RIVERA (1886-1957)

Lot 60
12.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
$ 5 000 000
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ID 1422986
Lot 60 | DIEGO RIVERA (1886-1957)
Estimate value
$ 5 000 000 – 7 000 000
DIEGO RIVERA (1886-1957)
La ofrenda de Janitzio
signed and dated 'Diego Rivera 1947' (lower right)
oil on linen laid down on masonite
45 ¼ x 37 ¼ in. (114.9 x 94.6 cm.)
Painted in 1947




Provenance

Emma Hurtado, Mexico City (acquired from the artist).
Private collection, United States; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 May 1985, lot 38.
CDS Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, circa 1985.



Literature

Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Diego Rivera: Catálogo de obra de caballete, Mexico City, 1989, p. 231, no. 1774 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Diego Rivera: 50 años de su labor artística, 1951, p. 450, no. 717 (illustrated).



Further Details

We are grateful to Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his assistance cataloguing this work.
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