Lot 373
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DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS | Mujer con niño

Estimate
300,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • David Alfaro Siqueiros
  • Mujer con niño
  • Signed Siqueiros (lower right); dated 8-66 (lower left) 
  • Pyroxylin on Masonite
  • 43 1/4 by 52 1/2 in.
  • 110 by 133.3 cm
  • Painted in August, 1966.

Exhibited

Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art & Fukuoka, Fukuoka City Art Museum, Renacimiento en el Arte Mexicano: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, 1989, n.n.

Catalogue Note

This painting is part of the National Heritage of Mexico and cannot be permanently exported from the country. Accordingly, it is offered for sale in New York from the catalogue and will not be available in New York for inspection or delivery. The painting will be released to the purchaser in Mexico in compliance with all local requirements. Prospective buyers may contact Sotheby’s representatives in Mexico City and Monterrey for an appointment to view the work. "Siqueiros is the best proof that a really great painter has, above all, a social consciousness and an ideological conviction. The greater the conviction, the greater the painter... Siqueiros is the splendid synthesis of the conception of the masses and an individually perceived representation of that concept. Between the emotional explosion and the disciplined intellect, Siqueiros strikes a blow with his brush with the implacable certainty of a pneumatic drill on the path leading to the final goal that he always has in sight." 

—Sergei Eisenstein