Nov 05, 2001 - Sale 1913

Sale 1913 - Lot 814

Price Realized: $ 3,220
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DIEGO RIVERA
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Lithograph, circa 1916. 143x103 mm; 5 5/8x4 1/8 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and annotated in pencil, lower margin. A good, strong impression of this scarce print. From Poems<> by Ilya Ehrenburg. Published by Rirajovsky, Paris.

Rivera lived in Paris from 1911-1921, working at the core of the burgeoning Cubist Movement, and was a central figure in an artistic circle which included artists Picasso, Sontine, and Modigliani and literary figures such as Max Jacob and Ilya Ehrenburg.