MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS

1904, Mexico City
1957, Mexico City

The style of his sharp caricatures, graphic exaggeration, and the anthropological taste of his portraits are immediately recognizable elements that are akin – indeed, coincident – with the electrifying aesthetics of the American jazz age. A curious, open, and immediately reflective personality that contributed to shaping the aesthetic taste of a generation and an artistic milieu in what was, at the time, the beacon city of the modern world: New York.

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