Xavier Guerrero

Lot 90: XAVIER GUERRERO(1896-1974)

Name: XAVIER GUERRERO(1896-1974)
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 61e8957138

Est: $60,000 USD - $80,000 USD

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USMay 28, 2013

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND FEET signed and dated 41 lower center fresco with glazes applied with a brush 39 3/8 by 39 1/2 inches 100 by 100 cm

Artist or Maker

Xavier Guerrero

Exhibited

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Techniques of Painting, August 4-October 14, 1941 Ithaca, Cornell Univeristy, Watercolor Techniques, November-December, 1941

Literature

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1942, p. 45, discussed Lincoln Kirstein, The Latin American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1943, p. 98, discussed

Provenance

Gift of the Advisory Committee, 1941

Notes

Please note this work was commissioned for the 1941 Museum of Modern Art exhibition Techniques of Painting.

Auction Details

Latin American Art

Sotheby's

May 28, 2013, 07:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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