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Portrait of Gloria Calero de Urueta
Details
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974)
Portrait of Gloria Calero de Urueta
signed and dated 'Siqueiros 1931' (upper left)
oil on burlap
25 x 25 in. (63.5 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1931.
Portrait of Gloria Calero de Urueta
signed and dated 'Siqueiros 1931' (upper left)
oil on burlap
25 x 25 in. (63.5 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1931.
Provenance
Acquired by the family of the present owners, circa 1975.
Literature
Portrait of a Decade: David Alfaro Siqueiros 1930-1940, Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, 1996, p. 200, fig. 81 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Mexico City, Casino Español, Exposición de 60 obras del pintor David Alfaro Siqueiros, 25 January - 15 February 1932.
Los Angeles, Stendahl Ambassador Galleries, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Exhibition, 12 - 31 May 1932.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum, extended loan.
Los Angeles, Stendahl Ambassador Galleries, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Exhibition, 12 - 31 May 1932.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum, extended loan.
Engraved
Gloria Calero de Urueta (1906 – 1990) was a painter in her own right, influenced by her contemporaries the Mexican Muralists, as well as the wife of artist Federico Cantú. Well immersed in Mexico City’s thriving 1930s artistic milieu, Calero counted among her friends, Inés Amor, founder of the influential Galería de Arte Mexicano, David Alfaro Siqueiros, the painter of the present work, and many other cultural luminaries. It was in these bohemian circles that Calero and Cantú met and began a romantic relationship that eventually led them to marry after they both divorced their first spouses. It is said that Calero and Cantú were inseparable in their more than fifty years of marriage together.
We are grateful to Prof. Irene Herner Reiss for her assistance cataloguing this work.
We are grateful to Prof. Irene Herner Reiss for her assistance cataloguing this work.
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