Mar 10, 2022 - Sale 2597

Sale 2597 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DIEGO RIVERA
Tehuana con batea.

Pencil on cream wove paper, 1922. 336x215 mm; 13 1/4x8 1/2 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto, and inscribed "4" in pencil, upper left recto.

Provenance: Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York, with the label; Patricia Whitman, New York; thence to her estate, 2017.

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.