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Latin American Art Preview York New LATIN AMERICAN ART PREVIEW NEW YORK NEW NEW YORK | JUNE 2020 LATIN AMERICAN ART PREVIEW ART AMERICAN LATIN JUNE 2020 N110368L JUNE 2020 LATIN AMERICAN ART PREVIEW INCLUDING THE VANGUARD SPIRIT: MODERN AND SURREALIST MASTERWORKS FROM AN IMPORTANT ESTATE AUCTIONS IN NEW YORK JUNE 2020 N10369 IMPRESSIONIST & MODERNART DAY SALE JUNE 29 AT 10 AM & 2 PM N10368 IMPRESSIONIST & MODERNART EVENING SALE JUNE 29 AT 7:30 PM N10371 CONTEMPORARY ART DAY AUCTION JUNE 30 AT 10 AM TO VIEW PROPERTY FROM THIS SALE Please contact Sotheby’s to make an appointment. For condition reports and additional images, please visit Sothebys.com or contact the department administrator. 1334 York Avenue New York, NY 10021 +1 212 606 7000 sothebys.com FOLLOW US @SOTHEBYS #SOTHEBYSLATIN Front cover Wifredo Lam, Omi Obini, $8,000,000-$12,000,000 Back cover Remedios Varo, Armonía, $2,000,000-$3,000,000 This page Mario Carreño, Cortadores de caña, $1,500,000-$2,000,000 SPECIALISTS ENQUIRIES NEW YORK SALE NUMBER Anna Di Stasi N10368 Vice President, Director N10369 Latin American Art N10371 +1 212 894 1187 [email protected] BIDS DEPARTMENT Andrea Zorrilla +1 212 606 7414 Vice President, Specialist fax +1 212 606 7016 Latin American Art [email protected] +1 212 606 7513 [email protected] Bidders are encouraged to submit bids Emily Nice online on Sothebys.com or through Associate Specialist the Sotheby’s App. Please contact the Latin American Art Bids Department to request telephone +1 212 606 7513 bidding arrangements. [email protected] Julian Dawes SALE ADMINISTRATOR Senior Vice President Isabel Rubio-Topete Co-Head of Department [email protected] Impressionist & Modern Art +1 212 606 7513 +1 646 578 0361 [email protected] POST SALE SERVICES Scott Niichel contemporary art Senior Vice President Ashlyn Michalakis Co-Head of Department Post Sale Manager Impressionist & Modern Art [email protected] +1 917 499 9250 +1 212 894 1908 [email protected] impressionist & modern art LATIN AMERICA & EUROPE Minzee Kang Post Sale Manager Lulu Creel [email protected] Chairman, Latin America +1 212 894 1470 +52 55 52 81 21 00 [email protected] FOR PAYMENT, DELIVERY Tatiana Peralta AND COLLECTION Assistant Vice President, Mexico City +52 55 52 81 22 00 +1 212 606 7444 [email protected] fax +1 212 606 7043 [email protected] Katia Mindlin Leite Barbosa Senior Vice President, Director, Brazil +55 21 2553 1946 FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL [email protected] +1 212 606 7000 USA +44 (0)20 7293 5000 Diana Boccardo for UK & Europe Consultant, Caracas +58 424 190 4221 Diana.Boccardo.Consultant@ sothebys.com Adela MacKinlay de Casal This page Consultant, Buenos Aires Remedios Varo, Microcosmos, +54 11 5031 9812 $1,500,000-$2,000,000 Adela.Casal.Consultant @sothebys.com CONTENTS 1 AUCTION INFORMATION 3 SPECIALISTS AND AUCTION ENQUIRIES 6 ISAAC LIF, IN MEMORIAM 10 THE VANGUARD SPIRIT: MODERN AND SURREALIST MASTERWORKS FROM AN IMPORTANT ESTATE 84 WORKS FEATURED IN THE IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART DAY SALE 118 WORKS FEATURED IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART DAY AUCTION This page Rufino Tamayo, Figuras, $1,500,000-$2,000,000 IN MEMORIAM: A TRIBUTE TO ISAAC LIF (1927-2019) Widely admired in the Dominican Republic, the name of Under his fifty-year leadership, Radiocentro As an enthusiastic champion of the health and To those in the art world, Issac Lif was a collector at Isaac Lif is synonymous with business acumen, sportsman- transformed itself into a symbol of progress and wellbeing of his employees and community, Radiocentro heart. A constant fixture in Latin American art auctions ship and cultural refinement. Lif’s parents Pola and Zelko globalization. Today it is considered the leading company created, under the leadership of Isaac Lif, the Astroboys in New York for over thirty years, he was relentless in the Lifszyc, young Polish immigrants who emigrated to escape in the sale and distribution of household appliances in the de Toshiba Sports Club. It was here that in 1986, Isaac pursuit of a deeply personal and extensive collection within Communism, settled in Havana, Cuba in 1927. A brilliant Caribbean. Among Radiocentro’s key successes was the inaugurated the school of the New York Yankees in the the category. While his collecting interests were varied and and inquisitive child, Isaac grew into a gifted entrepreneur introduction of portable transistor radios in the Dominican Dominican Republic. Serving as the headquarters for the evolved through time, he preferred historical masterworks whose perseverance would transform him into one of the Republic, a revolutionary strategy that made this modern Astroboys de Toshiba, a well-known company team and created during critical periods of artistic production. most successful self-made businessmen in Latin America. invention accessible to the underprivileged in cities and protagonist of the greatest national and international As a patron of the arts, he was a major supporter of the After a brief residence in the United States in the early rural areas at affordable prices. Widely unavailable until softball victories, this beautiful sports center is also Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo and a generous 1960s, Lif traveled to different countries seeking a ripe then, Radiocentro’s commercialization of battery-operated enjoyed by the children of Radiocentro employees during sponsor of local artists Ramón Oviedo and Iván Tovar with emerging market for his business. Eventually, he settled in radios allowed all Dominicans to enter an age of modernity school holidays. whom he developed lifelong friendships. A celebrated Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic where he co-founded regardless of economic status. Most importantly, it collector of and advocate for Latin American art, his Radiocentro in 1963. provided them with an instant connection to the outside passion and unique spirit will be dearly missed. world through daily news, popular music, and sporting events. 6 7 “It is a pleasure to remember Isaac Lif. I speak to you not as the former President of the Dominican Republic but as a simple citizen, one who knew Isaac’s business trajectory and his great vocation for Latin American art and sports. Among his greatest and most consequential achievements are those early radios and Toshiba machines he introduced into so many homes at a time when they were hardly known. He was a true gentleman. Isaac was also the father of the best softball team in the Dominican Republic: the Astroboys of Toshiba, against whom I often played. Although he was not born in this country, he carried the Dominican spirit within him. We love him and hope to share how much he did for us all.” Former President of the Dominican Republic, Hipolito Mejia, May 2020 8 9 NEW YORK 29-30 JUNE 2020 10 AM AND 7:30 PM The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks exemplary works embody the distinct and richly varied from an Important Estate encompasses one of the most plastic vocabulary that evolved throughout the Americas. impressive assemblages of Latin American art in private Portraying local customs and social realities, this remarkable hands ever offered at auction. Spanning over forty years of group of iconic paintings is emblematic of the region’s enlightened acquisitions, this encyclopedic and intensely continued pursuit of national identity. personal collection reveals the prescience of a gifted and Sotheby’s is honored to offer The Vanguard Spirit: Modern inquisitive eye—one capable of discerning museum-quality and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate to a “The marvelous is always beautiful. artworks before they were coveted by the collecting world global audience of collectors in the context of our marquee at large. sales of Impressionist and Modern and Contemporary Art Anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only Anchored in Surrealism by exceptional works by beginning this summer and throughout 2021. Wifredo Lam, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Leonor On the following pages are a selection of artists’ the marvelous is beautiful.” Fini, and Alice Rahon, the collection is complemented by statements and thoughtful reflections published by leading André Breton, First Manifesto of Surrealism outstanding paintings by two of the most accomplished scholars on key works in the collection. Together they reveal artists of la vanguardia Cubana: Mario Carreño and Cundo the genesis behind individual paintings and cast light on Bermúdez. Archetypal examples by Rufino Tamayo, Frida the artists’ unique creative process: their early influences, Kahlo and José Clemente Orozco convey diverse, vital historical resources and trans-Atlantic dreams. Altogether, approaches to modernism in Latin America. Largely executed they allow for a closer appreciation of the incredibly complex in the mid-twentieth century, a particularly fertile period of web that connects their body of work to their personal cultural activity in Havana and Mexico City, these biographies. 12 13 Wifredo Lam | Omi Obini Mario Carreño | Cortadores de caña “She is the river […] Omí Obiní, woman of water, she is the Mario Carreño is “the most versatile, learned, and courageous Lady of Fresh Waters who fertilizes the earth and dances, of the new generation, his heroic Cortadores de caña is among dispensing life. She slips and slides among the reeds, the most ambitious and powerful compositions in Cuban alongside the flanks of the bodies that rock and sway, painting.” transported by the miraculous rhythm of the
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