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Modern | April 22, 2025

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From Modernists in Latin America, such as Omar Rayo and Manuel Felguerez, to representations of the early work of Thomas Downing, Gordon Onslow Ford, the Modern sale offers paintings, sculpture, and multiples from estates and fine collections. Other names to drop? Ernest Trova, Larry Rivers, Maud Gatewood, Nicolo Simbari, Werner Scholz, Tony Hernandez, Mary Whyte, and Mark Beard, Peter Roux, Bruce Brainard, Paul Vincent, important multiples by Jasper Johns, Calder, Chagall, and George Rodrigue, design by Edward Moulthrop, Georg Jensen, and George Nelson. If you love modern, enjoy this sale.
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Lot 9

Sigi Zahn, Abstract Pastel

Estimate: $200 - $400
Starting Bid
$100

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(Switzerland/Mexico/Germany, born 1942) 

Como empezar la carrera, 1967, signed in pencil lower right "Zahn 67", original gallery label on mat backing verso inscribed "Sigi Zahn/pastel/Como empezar la carrera", pastel on paper, sight 14-1/2 x 12 in.; gilt wood frame, 20 x 17-1/2 x 7/8 in. 

Provenance: Galeria Antonio Souza, Mexico City, 1967, (label verso); The Estate of Rita F. Rofe, Princeton, New Jersey

Note: Rita Rofe, a longtime Princeton, New Jersey educator and resident, and husband Nicolas Rofe began their art collection in the 1960s, selected during their travels in the early years of their marriage. Rita Rofe was multilingual and developed a keen appreciation for art from Latin America and elsewhere, and these are among their earliest group of artists now well established and sought after in the category of Latin American Modern Art. Regarding the artist, Sigi Zahn was active in Mexico from 1964, when he received a travel scholarship from Germany, until 1968. He held a solo exhibition at Antonio Souza Gallery in Mexico City, in 1967, where this pastel was exhibited. 

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Galeria Antonio Souza, Mexico City, 1967, (label verso); The Estate of Rita F. Rofe, Princeton, New Jersey

bold color, laid down with mat adhered to margins, slight wave; liner with stains, toning, frame with wear, abrasions, and loss to gilt