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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2023 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Subasta de Arte Latinoamericano | 100 | $****** - ****** | Fantasy |
paintings
80 x 60 cm (31.5 x 23.62 in)
Acrylic on masonite
Signed and dated 73
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS
(Mexico City, 1896 - Cuernavaca, Morelos, 1974)
Fantasy
Signed and dated 73
Acrylic on masonite
With certificate of authenticity from the Siqueiros Public Art Room, September 1973.
With certificate of authenticity from the Misrachi Art Gallery, January 1975.
With documentary essay by Dr. Irene Herner, May 2023.
It presents slight details of conservation.
David Alfaro Siqueiros, a key piece of the muralist triad along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, has a complex career that fuses the principles of the Mexican School of Painting with the European avant-garde of the 20th century.
He promoted experimentation with new materials and their fundamental role in the development of modern art. In the case of this lot we can see the use of the “controlled accident”, a technique that the artist coined at the Siqueiros Experimental Workshop, a space where Jackson Pollock attended and where it is recorded that he took inspiration for his future use of dripping in his works.
Beyond his artistic work, he remained active in social causes. We know of his participation in the military ranks of the Mexican Revolution, as well as in the Spanish Civil War. In addition, when the Vietnam War broke out, he organized a committee in opposition to it. The above is related to this work since it offers us a distressing scene that Dr. Irene Herner links to a war scene.
On the other hand, as Dr. Irene Herner comments in her documentary essay, the piece titled “Fantasy” is part of the late production of Master David Alfaro Siqueiros. Beyond the date indicated by the artist in his signature, we can observe that both the technique and the proposed theme derive from a reflective work carried out based on experiences gathered throughout his life, achieving an eminent plastic quality.
“As soon as we take distance and penetrate the gaze of the painting, it is clear that far from being a semi-abstraction, it represents an explosive, painful and deeply expressionist figure.” Dr. Irene Herner.
Sources consulted: JOLLY, Jennifer. Aesthetics of Conflict: Perspective and Anamorphosis in Siqueiros"s Art of the 1930s. United States. The Art Bulletin, March 2021, pp. 111-139 and HERNER, Irene. Documentary essay, Fantasía. Mexico, May 2023, pp. 1-17.
80 x 60 cm
