Alice Rahon - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Phillips

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale,...

New York Auction 19 May 2022

  • "In earliest times painting was magical; it was the key to the invisible. In those days the value of a work lay in its powers of conjuration, a power that talent alone could not achieve. Like the shaman, the sibyl and the wizard, the painter had to make himself humble, so that he could share in the manifestation of spirits and forms."
    —Alice Rahon

     

    • Provenance

      Maria del Carmen Rodriguez Peña, Mexico City (gifted by the artist)
      Thence by descent to the present owner

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Alice Rahon

Main Street

signed and dated “Alice Rahon 52” lower right; signed, titled, inscribed and dated “Alice Rahon Mexico 52 “Calle principal” “Main Street” “La grande Rue”” on the reverse of the frame
oil and sand on wood
image 9 x 12 1/4 in. (22.9 x 31.1 cm)
framed 14 3/4 x 18 in. (37.5 x 45.7 cm)
Executed in 1952.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $44,100

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 19 May 2022