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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate Miguel Covarrubias 1904 - 1957 Napoleon's Prison Island, St. Helena inscribed Jamestown (lower center); signed with the initials MC and inscribed (on the verso) Provenance Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature Exxon Corp., "Oil and the Faraway Islands," The Lamp, vol. 35, issue 1, June 1953, p. 18, illustrated (captioned: Napoleon's prison island - St. Helena - has tripled its use of oil in four years)