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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 26, 2021 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo | Modern and Contemporary Art | 135 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of Lic. Octavio Reyes Spíndola |
paintings
82.5 x 60.5 cm (32.48 x 23.82 in)
Pyroxylin on wood
Signed; With a label from the National Palace of Fine Arts.
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS
(Mexico City, 1896 - Cuernavaca, Morelos, 1974)
Portrait of Lic. Octavio Reyes Spíndola, 1942
Signed
Pyroxylin on wood
With a label from the National Palace of Fine Arts.
It has slight details of conservation.
Imprisoned in Mexico for his participation in the attempt by a communist group against Leon Trotsky, David Alfaro Siqueiros left the country thanks to the efforts of the then Consul General of Chile in Mexico, Pablo Neruda.
He was sent to Chillán, with the support of the ambassador Octavio Reyes Spíndola. During this time he lived in the hall of the School Republic of Mexico, which was under construction, there he painted the mural "Death to the Invader".
Octavio Reyes Spíndola (1887-1967) studied law with a specialty in international law and served for three decades in the foreign service as ambassador to Argentina, Chile and Cuba, and as an advisor to the Presidency in these matters. He was also a federal deputy for Oaxaca in the XXXIV Legislature. Reyes Spíndola claimed that the only true redeeming class in this country were the students, influenced by the Mexican Revolution and its heroes.
In recognition of his diplomatic work in Cuba, one of the main streets of Havana was renamed after him.
Source consulted: LÓPEZ PORTILLO, Felícitas. "Notes on Mexico-Cuba Relations during the September Revolution of 1933". Mexico. Research Center on Latin America and the Caribbean CIALC-UNAM.
82.5 x 60.5 cm
