Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Miguel Covarrubias
Rhapsody in Blue
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Miguel Covarrubias
1904 - 1957
Rhapsody in Blue
signed Covarrubias (lower right)
oil on canvas
25¼ by 31 in.
64.2 by 78.7 cm.
Executed in 1927.
Please refer to sothebys.com for an updated image and exhibition history for this lot.
Paul Whiteman, Santa Bridge, Pennsylvania
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 26 November 1985, lot 77 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 26 November 1985, lot 77 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Miguel Covarrubias, Negro Drawings, New York, 1927, no. 53, illustrated
Lucía García-Noriega y Nieto, Miguel Covarrubias Homenaje, Mexico City, 1987, no. 53, p. 100, illustrated in color; also illustrated in color as a frontispiece
Lucía García-Noriega y Nieto, Miguel Covarrubias Homenaje, Mexico City, 1987, no. 53, p. 100, illustrated in color; also illustrated in color as a frontispiece
Mexico City, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Exposición histórica (Miguel Covarrubias), 1998