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DIEGO RIVERA Retrato de una Mujer.
Pencil on cream laid paper, 1946. 314x245 mm; 31 1/4x24 1/2 inches. Signed, dedicated "To Gladys" and dated in pencil, lower right recto. Ex-collection Gladys March, New York; Bruce Gimelson, New York; private collection, Connecticut.
Professor Luis-Martin Lozano, University of Mexico City, has confirmed the authenticity of this work. Offered at Sotheby's, New York, sale 8493, lot 107.
Beginning in 1944 and continuing until his death in 1957, March recorded over 2000 pages of notes dictated to her by Rivera for an eventual autobiography.
