The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
Cundo Bermúdez
1914 - 2008
La sobremesa
signed Cundo Bermúdez and dated 45 (lower right)
gouache on board
27 ½ by 34 in.
69.8 by 86.4 cm.
Executed in 1945.
Condition Report
Provenance
Concha Romero James, Washington, D.C. (acquired by 1948)
Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 1988, lot 4 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Nader Art Gallery, Santo Domingo (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Vicente Báez, ed., Cundo Bermúdez, Miami, 2000, no. 45.6, p. 89, illustrated in color
Exhibited
San Francisco Museum of Art, Six Latin American Painters, May - June 1946, no. 10
Washington, D.C., Pan American Union, Cundo Bermúdez, April 1948, no. 11 (titled After Dinner)