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Property from an Important Private Collection

Leonora Carrington

Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick

Session begins in

21:25:32

May 16, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Leonora Carrington

1917 - 2011


Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick

signed Leonora Carrington and dated 1970 (lower left); signed Leonora Carrington, titled and dated Jan. 1970 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

35 ½ by 35 ½ in.

90 by 90 cm.

Executed in January 1970.

Pablo Feibelman, Mexico (acquired by 1974)

Mr. and Mrs. Jacobo Nakash, Mexico (acquired from the above by 1976)

Guillermo Fridman, Mexico (acquired from the above by 1994)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Leonora Carrington and Juan García Ponce, Leonora Carrington, Mexico City, 1974, no. 45, n.p., illustrated in color and p. 147

Angélica Abelleyra, "Leonora Carrington Discovering Diverging Worlds," Voices of Mexico, issue 53, October - December 2000, p. 40, illustrated in color

New York, Center for Inter-American Relations and The University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, Leonora Carrington: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1975 - February 1976, no. 50 (titled Jack Be Nimble! Jack Be Quick!)

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Leonora Carrington: una retrospectiva, September - November 1994, no. 62, p. 125, illustrated in color and p. 144

Tokyo Station Gallery; Umeda-Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Hida Takayama Museum of Art; Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Leonora Carrington, October 1997 - May 1998, no. 61, pp. 105 and 106, illustrated in color