(29 May 1999) Natural Sound

Christie's auction house in New York unveiled its Latin Art spring sale, which will be auctioned June 2-3.

The emphasis is on nineteenth and twentieth century art from countries spanning the region.

The spring sale of Latin Art will be held at Christie's new headquarters in New York's Rockefeller Center.

Among the best on offer is Mexican artist Diego Rivera's "Portrait of Paulette Goddard" painted in 1940-41.

Paulette Goddard, a movie actress, was married to famous comedian Charlie Chaplain when the portrait was painted.

Goddard went to Mexico to sit for Rivera, and the two became lovers.

"La fruta bomba," by Wilfredo Lam of Cuba, is a work of sexual overtones, with the fruit of the plants depicting female breasts and genitalia.

Lam painted this piece in 1944.

Argentinian Antonio Berni used the New York's hippy culture of the 1970s for inspiration of "Chelsea Hotel."

The acrylic and collage on campus depicts a nude woman in black stockings, with the Manhattan skyline seen out the window behind her.

Spain's Roberto Matta work "Crucifixion" is considered the first in a series of paintings known as "psychological morpholgies."

The artist became a major figure in the Surrealist movement.

Argentina's Emilio Pettoruti was greatly influenced by Cubism and became a promoter of avant-garde ideas of painting and literature in his country.

Pettoruti's 1933 oil on canvas "La copa verde II" shows the artist's interpretation of Cubism.

Christie's Latin Art sale also includes works from the Bruno Musatti Collection of Contemporary Art.

Most of those works use familiar objects.

The collection was started in the 1960s, and included modern Brazilian artwork.

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