Mar 06, 2025 - Sale 2696

Sale 2696 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 13,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
PABLO ESTEBAN O'HIGGINS (1904 - 1983)
Arriba de Milpa Alta.

Oil on canvas. 800x587 mm; 31½x23 inches, Signed lower right. Titled and inscribed "#7" in pencil, lower stretcher verso.

Provenance
Acquired from the artist by private collector, Mexico City and New York.
Thence by descent to current owner, New York.
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Milpa Alta is a borough in southeast Mexico City mostly occupied by forests and farmland. Pablo Esteban O'Higgins painted another oil on canvas of the subject, Milpa Alta dated 1976 , that was sold at Christie's, New York on November 20-21, 2015.

O'Higgins was born Paul O'Higgins and raised in the United States.  Having become Diego Rivera's assistant, O'Higgins was living in Mexico full time by 1924.  He became one of the founders of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, the revolutionary print collective in 1937.  As a muralist and a painter, O'Higgins' inspiration was also far-reaching.  In May 1940, he was the only non-Mexican artist included in the "Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art" at the Museum of Modern Art.