Miguel Covarrubias (1904 - 1957)

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 18th, 19th and 20th Century Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints, December 3, 1981, lot 222, illustrated
Private Collection, Mexico City 

Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Miguel Covarrubias: Homenaje, 1987, p. 92, illustrated

The sheet has been taped to the mat at each corner and edge. A repaired folding crease is visible from the top to the bottom edge. Very minor discoloration along the edges. Otherwise in very good condition.
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The present lot is a preparatory drawing for United Nations, 1942 by Miguel Covarrubias currently in the Drawings Collection, Prints and Photographs Division of the United States Library of Congress. 

Please refer to character key below from left to right. 

1. George II, King of Greece 
2. Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg
3. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada
4. Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
6. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island
7. Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
8. Queen Guillermina of Holland
9. General Tiburcio Carías Andino, President of Honduras
10. Haakon VII, King of Norway
11. Peter II, King of Yugoslavia
12. John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia
13. Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand
14. General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland
15. Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of Belgium
16. Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia
17. Field Marshal The Right Honorable Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa
18. Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba
19. General Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua
20. Viceroy Lord Linlithgow of India
21. Elie Lescot, President of Haiti
22. Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, President of Panama
23. Dr. Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha, President of the Dominican Republic
24. Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, President of Costa Rica
25. General Maximiliano H. Martinez, President of El Salvador
26. General Jorge Ubico, President of Guatemala
27. General Charles de Gaulle of the Free French