Details
MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS (1904-1957)
Professor Beebe, Gourmet and Ichthyologist, Secretly Fries his New Discovery Instead of Picking it for Posterity
signed 'COVARRUBIAS' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
10 x 812 in. (25.4 x 21.6 cm.)
Painted in 1933.
Provenance
Marian Nasso, Florida, circa 2010
Latin American Fine Art, Brownsville, 2016
Galería Windsor, Mexico City, 2017
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
I. S. Cobb, 'Private Lives of the Great No. 2,' Vanity Fair, November 1933, p. 29 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Mexico City, Pablo Goebel Fine Arts, Recorriendo el mundo del Chamaco Covarrubias, September 2017-January 2018, p. 120 (illustrated).
FURTHER DETAILS
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Anahí Luna.
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