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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Day Auction | 121 | $****** - ****** | Good | The Tree of Modern Art—Planted 60 Years Ago |
Works on Paper
41 x 33 cm (16.14 x 12.99 in)
gouache and pen and ink on paperboard
signed Covarrubias (lower right)
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
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.
