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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate

Antonio Ruíz (El Corcito)

Escena de Cristo

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October 1, 05:27 PM GMT

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5,000 - 7,000 USD

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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate

Antonio Ruíz (El Corcito)

1897 - 1964


Escena de Cristo

signed Ruíz and dated 20 (lower right); variously inscribed (on the verso)

graphite on paper

10 ⅛ by 13 ½ inches

25.7 by 34.3 cm.

Executed in 1920.

Vilma Ruiz de Barrios, Mexico City

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 19 November 1991, lot 91 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Olivier Debroise, Georgina Reygadas Dahl, Carlos Alcázar, et al., Antonio Ruiz: El Corcito, Mexico City 1987, no. 94, p. 101, illustrated

Saturnino Herrán Gudiño, Sandro Landucci Lerdo de Tejada, Luisa Barroso Ruiz, et al., Antonio Ruiz: "El Corcito," Mexico City 2001, no. 46, p. 73, illustrated in color