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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 17, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Day Auction | 515 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Luna sobre el mercado |
paintings
99.7 x 69.8 cm (39.25 x 27.5 in)
encaustic on canvas
signed Diego Rivera and dated 1929 (lower left)
Aline Liebmann, New York (acquired from the artist)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 7 December 1955, lot 65 (consigned by the above)
Selig Burrows, New York (acquired from the above)
Weintraub Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in November 1970 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Diego Rivera , 1931-1932, no. 33A, p. 52 (titled Market Place )
Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, 1935
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Diego Rivera, 50 años de su Labor Artística, Exposición de Homenaje Nacional , 1950, no. 354, illustrated in color
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950
Nagoya City Art Museum; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art and Fukuoka City Art Museum, Renacimiento en el Arte Mexicano: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros , 1989, n.n.
Mexico City, Colegio de San Ildefonso, México, esplendores de treinta siglos , 1992-1993, n.n.
Brussels, Europalia Festival, Mexico, El Aguila y el sol (The Eagle and the Sun) , 1993, n.n.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Diego Rivera's America , 2022-23, no. 26, p. 52, illustrated in color
Bertram D. Wolfe, Portrait of Mexico-Paintings by Diego Rivera , London 1937, pl. 62, n.p., illustrated (titled Morning Moon )
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Diego Rivera: Catálogo General de Obra de Caballete , Mexico 1989, no. 879, illustrated
Masterworks of Mexican Modernism: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Diego Rivera
1886 - 1957
Luna sobre el mercado
signed Diego Rivera and dated 1929 (lower left)
encaustic on canvas
39¼ by 27½ in.
100 by 70 cm
Executed in Tehuantepec in 1929.
We wish to thank Professor Luis-Martín Lozano for his kind assistance in confirming the authenticity of this lot.
