With more than 320 paintings and sculptures included in the two day auction, Christie’s will stage its largest yet sale of Latin American Art on May 28-29 in New York.

Expected to realize in excess of $30 million. the sale is particularly strong covering Mexican and Cuban schools, and major artists including, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Fernando Botero, Leonora Carrington, Claudio Bravo, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Mario Carreño and others.

Leading this season’s sale is Rufino Tamayo’s Trovador (The Troubadour), 1945, an iconic work by the artist combining the ideal subject matter of the guitarist with the artist’s signature brilliant palette and scale (estimate: $2-3 million). Trovador has the potential to break the current world auction record for Tamayo, which was set at Christie’s in 1993 with the 1955 painting, America (Mural).

Posted: 05|31|08 at 10:46 am. Filed under: US News.