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Property of a Gentleman

Miguel Covarrubias

The Tree of Modern Art—Planted 60 Years Ago

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Gentleman

Miguel Covarrubias

1904 - 1957


The Tree of Modern Art—Planted 60 Years Ago

signed Covarrubias (lower right)

gouache and pen and ink on paperboard

16 ⅛ by 13 in.

41 by 33 cm.

Executed in 1933.

Benny Goodman, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above) 

Private Collection, New York (acquired by descent from the above) 

Guernsey's, New York, 20 February 2005, lot 298 (consigned by the above) 

Private Collection, Florida (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 2018, lot 337 (consigned by the above) 

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Reginald Howard Wilenski, "The Tree of Modern Art," Vanity Fair, vol. 40, issue 3, May 1933, p. 36, illustrated in color

Sylvia Navarrete Bouzard, "Miguel Covarrubias, Caricaturista de los mundanos y retratista de los pueblos," in Miguel Covarrubias Homenaje, Mexico City 1987, p. 52, illustrated

Bradley Collins, "A Tree Grows in Soho," Vanity Fair, issue 454, June 1998, p. 186, illustrated in color

Mary Miller, "Shaped Time," Art Journal, vol. 68, issue 4, Winter 2009, p. 75, illustrated in color (in a reproduction of illustration from Vanity Fair, June 1998)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, 2012-2013, p. 363, illustrated in color

Henry Adams, "The Family Tree of Modern Art and Ad Reinhardt," Archives of American Art Journal, vol. 52, issue 3/4, Fall 2013, p. 66, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Miguel Covarrubias: Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line, 2014-2015, p. 103, illustrated in color

Rainer William and Julia Voss, The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel, Cologne 2017, p. 76, illustrated in color