Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
TINA MODOTTI (1896-1942)
Suite of 4 photographs depicting Diego Rivera's frescoes. Includes The Court of Labor * Reparto de Tierras * La Lluvia * The Fertile Earth, from the Secretaria de Educacion Publica and the School of Agriculture at Chapingo. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, all but one with Modotti's hand stamp on verso. Circa 1928

WITH--José Mariá Lupercio. A suite of 6 photographs documenting Diego Rivera's murals at the Secretary of Public Education in Mexico City. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/4x9 1/4 inches (17.5x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 9x11 inches (22.8x28 cm.), each with Lupercio's credit, and three with an inventory number, in the negative. Circa 1928

Additional Details

Evans, The Frescoes of Diego Rivera (Harcourt, Brace and Company), unpaginated.

Hooks, Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary (Museum Hundertwasser), p. 143.

Manjarrez, Tina Modotti y el Muralismo Mexicano (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), p. 25, p. 37, p. 75.