Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Diego Rivera
Construction of Rockefeller Center (Four Works)
Auction Closed
November 17, 10:26 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Diego Rivera
1886 - 1957
Sketches for Mural at Rockefeller Center (Four Works)
i. & ii.: signed Diego Rivera and dated 32 (lower left)
iv.: signed Diego Rivera (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
i., ii. & iv: 5 3/8 by 7 in. (13.7 by 17.8 cm.)
iii.: 7 by 5 3/8 in. (17.8 by 13.7 cm.)
Executed in 1932.
We wish to thank Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his kind assistance in confirming the authenticity of this lot.
Please note the title of this work has been updated.
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Lester Wolfe, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, 29 May 1984, lot 26 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Lester Wolfe, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, 29 May 1984, lot 26 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 3-6, pp. 48-49 & 244, illustrated in color
New York, Rockefeller University, Contemporary Mexican Art, 1965-66, no. 23