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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dr. Irene Herner Reiss for her assistance cataloguing this work.
Siqueiros executed many sketches over the course of his prolific career of which this is an excellent example. Many of these drawings consist of extremely playful, synthesized images that often start out with a splash or blotch of paint to which he adds the suggested figurative form--in this case a torso. In the present work the shape of the head is akin to that of a lion. Siqueiros referred to this way of painting as "controlled accidents," because the starting point is based on chance and the subject matter is added after this first moment, taking into account the unconscious original form.
--Dr. Irene Herner Reiss, Mexico City
Siqueiros executed many sketches over the course of his prolific career of which this is an excellent example. Many of these drawings consist of extremely playful, synthesized images that often start out with a splash or blotch of paint to which he adds the suggested figurative form--in this case a torso. In the present work the shape of the head is akin to that of a lion. Siqueiros referred to this way of painting as "controlled accidents," because the starting point is based on chance and the subject matter is added after this first moment, taking into account the unconscious original form.
--Dr. Irene Herner Reiss, Mexico City