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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Miguel Covarrubias
Napoleon's Prison Island, St. Helena
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March 5, 07:27 PM GMT
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8,000 - 12,000 USD
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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Miguel Covarrubias
1904 - 1957
Napoleon's Prison Island, St. Helena
inscribed Jamestown (lower center); signed with the initials MC and inscribed (on the verso)
brush and ink and gouache on paper
14 by 9⅞ in.
35.6 by 25 cm.
Executed in 1953.
Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exxon Corp., "Oil and the Faraway Islands," The Lamp, vol. 35, issue 1, June 1953, p. 18, illustrated (captioned: Napoleon's prison island - St. Helena - has tripled its use of oil in four years)
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