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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2022 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Subasta de Arte Latinoamericano | 78 | $****** - ****** | Landscape |
paintings
37 x 120.5 cm (14.57 x 47.44 in)
Acrylic and pyroxylin on wood
Signed and dated 59
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS
(Mexico City, 1896 - Cuernavaca, Morelos, 1974)
Landscape
Signed and dated 59
Acrylic and pyroxylin on wood
With certificate of opinion from the Mexican Art Gallery, March 2022.
Since 1946, the landscape genre began to be a recurring theme in the production of David Alfaro Siqueiros. His travels around the world, as well as the exile he had to live among the mountains of Chiapas and his subsequent flight to South America influenced a variety that not only reflects themes of geographical characteristics, such as ravines, peaks, rocky outcrops, lagoons, jungles and canyons, but also served in the exploration of perspectives, composition and texture. Part of this production was the product of a famous outdoor photo shoot planned by Siqueiros and carried out jointly between 1940 and 1946 with the Colombian photographer Leo Matiz.
The works he produced in the 1950s denote the modernity that goes hand in hand with the technology and progress witnessed by Miguel Alemán"s presidential term. The muralist followed the pace of the transformations in urban planning, painting pronounced aerial views of landscapes that were gradually modified to make way for urban development. These works were resolved in a spectacle of geometric shapes in volume captured from the air, solutions that he considered applicable to the art of his time. He considered it interesting to take elements always starting from a realism, but avoiding imitations and without a descriptive intention.
In this body of work he painted unexpected forms achieved with his method of "controlled accidents", which was born in the "Siqueiros Experimental Workshop" in New York in 1936 and was characterized by turning the support of the work into an abstract arena on which paint is thrown randomly from pyroxylin cans. He also combines his sculptural-pictorial exercises by applying thick impastos and taking up the teachings of his great masters and contemporaries, such as the mastery of painting an atmosphere of José María Velasco and the curvilinear perspectives of Dr. Atl, as well as the theory of Luis G. Serrano about the spherical representation of nature.
Source consulted: MARÍN, Manuel et al. Siqueiros landscape artist. Mexico. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museum of Latin American Art, 2010, pp. 29-31.
37 x 120.5 cm
