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DIEGO RIVERA Cabeza de Mujer.
Pencil on handmade paper, 1920. 245x205 mm; 9 5/8x8 1/8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Patricia Whitman, New York; thence to her estate, 2017.
Published: Gutiérrez, Diego Rivera: catálogo de obra de caballete, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1989, page 50, number 330 (illustrated).
Patricia Dowd Whitman was an admired staff member at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1974 until she retired in 2007. She was responsible for building relationships with donors and artists such as Dorothea Rockburne, Tom Otterness, and Jeanne-Claude and Christo. From 1990 until her retirement, she was the Director of the Contemporary Arts Council at MoMA.
