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Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

Juan Soriano

Naturaleza muerta con madrépora

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

Juan Soriano

1920 - 2006


Naturaleza muerta con madrépora

signed J. Soriano and dated 44 (lower right)

oil on Masonite

23 ¾ by 20 ⅜ in.

60.3 by 51.9 cm.

Executed in 1944.

Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City

Galería Tonalli, Mexico City

Galería de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

Private Collection, Mexico

Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1990, lot 143

Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Natasha Gelman, Mexico City (acquired from the above)

Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired by descent from the above in 1998)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

María Teresa Márquez, Juan Soriano, Autorretrato, Mexico City, 1988, p. 38, illustrated in color (titled Naturaleza muerta con cerebro)

Mexico City, Conjunto Cultural Ollin Yoliztli, Juan Soriano, Retrospectiva: Revelación del Esplendor, 1987, no. 9, n.p., illustrated in color

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1996, p. 87, pl. 23, illustrated in color

Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Peinture moderne au Mexique-Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman, 1999, n.n., p. 121, illustrated in color; p. 120

San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art; Dallas Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2000-01, no. 94, p. 146, illustrated in color; p. 199

Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2001-02, n.n., p. 79, illustrated in color; p. 89

New York, El Museo del Barrio, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2002