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Miguel Covarrubias

Impossible Interviews - No. 19: Theodore Roosevelt vs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

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

Miguel Covarrubias

1904 - 1957

Impossible Interviews - No. 19: Theodore Roosevelt vs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 



signed Covarrubias (lower right) 

gouache on paper laid down on board

13¾ by 12⅞ in.

35 by 32.7 cm.

Executed circa 1933. 

Stanley Marcus, Dallas
Sotheby's New York, 16 November 2002, lot 63 (consigned by the estate of the above) 
Galería Ramis Barquet, New York (acquired from the above) 
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Vanity Fair, New York, July 1933, pp. 7 and 21, illustrated in color 
Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Fundación Cultural Televisa, Miguel Covarrubias - Exposición Homenaje, 1987, p. 46, illustrated in color