David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican 1896-1974)

El ascenso

Details

David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican 1896-1974)
El ascenso
signed and dated 'SIQUEIROS, 12-68' (lower left)
Pyroxilin on wood panel and iron frame
48¼ x 37 3/8 in. (122.5 x 95 cm.)
Painted in December 1968.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by Lic. Agustín Salvat Rodríguez (1968).
By descent to the present owner, San Diego, California.

Exhibited

Mexico City, Galería de Arte Misrachi, n/d.

Lot Essay

"...Siqueiros never painted the anecdotal, but always described situations and the truth of the human condition in its clash with history. It was this search for truth that inspired his experiments with form..."

Mario de Micheli, Siqueiros, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1968.

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