Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
David Alfaro Siqueiros
El machete (Autorretrato)
Auction Closed
May 18, 09:51 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks From an Important Estate
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1896 - 1974
El machete (Autorretrato)
signed Siqueiros and dated 7-68 (lower right)
pyroxylin on panel
48 by 45¼ in.
121.9 by 114.9 cm.
Executed in July 1968.
Giuliano Gemma, Rome (acquired directly from the artist)
Sotheby's New York, 17 May 1994, lot 40 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 31 May 2007, lot 21
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Raquel Tibol, Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Tamayo, Mexico City, 1985, illustrated in color on the cover
Mario de Micheli, Siqueiros, Mexico City, 1985, illustrated in color on the cover
Mario de Micheli, Siqueiros, Mexico City, 1985, illustrated in color on the cover
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Latin American Masterpieces, 1997, pp. 22-23, illustrated in color