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MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS Rockefeller Discovering the Rivera Murals.
Gouache and ink on paper, 1933. 356x254 mm; 14x10 inches. Signed and annotated in pencil, lower right recto.
A caricature of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. discovering the controversial portrait of the Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin in Rivera's mural, Man at the Crossroads, at Rockefeller Center, New York. Rivera's inclusion of Lenin's portrait so incensed Rockefeller that he ordered Rivera to stop work and the murals were destroyed before their completion.
Sold Sotheby's, New York, May 29, 1985, lot 323. Ex-collection Forbes Collection, New York.
Exhibited "South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, September 10-November 21, 1993; Phoenix Art Museum, December 26, 1993-February 13, 1994; New Orleans Museum of Art, May 7-July 17, 1994; Museo de Monterrey, Mexico, September 9-November 20, 1994.
"Shared Traditions: African American Modernists and the Mexican Muralists," The American Federation of Arts; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, September 15-December 1, 1996; African American Museum, Dallas, January 3-March 2, 1996; Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, March 26-May 25, 1996; California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, June 20-August 17, 1994; Diggs Gallery, State University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, September 12- November 9, 1996; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, December 5, 1997-February 1, 1998; The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, February 27-April 26, 1998.
"200 Years of American Art From the Forbes Magazine Collection," The Forbes Magazine Galleries, New York, May 26-September 4, 1999, No. 63.
"In the Spirit of Resistance: African American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School," the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, September 15-December 1, 1996; African American Museum, Dallas, January 3-March 2, 1997; Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, March 26-May 25, 1997; Diggs Gallery, State University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, September 12-November 9, 1997; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, December 5, 1997-February 8, 1998; The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California, February 27-April 26, 1998, reproduced.
"Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis," El Museo del Barrio, October 17, 2009-February 28, 2010.
