Live Auction 2173Latin American Sale
Christie’s roundel
Lot 16

David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican 1896-1974)

El ascenso

Closed29 May 2009

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USD 98,500

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David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican 1896-1974)
El ascenso
signed and dated 'SIQUEIROS, 12-68' (lower left)
Pyroxilin on wood panel and iron frame
48¼ x 37 3/8 in. (122.5 x 95 cm.)
Painted in December 1968.

Acquired from the artist by Lic. Agustín Salvat Rodríguez (1968).
By descent to the present owner, San Diego, California.

Specialist note

"...Siqueiros never painted the anecdotal, but always described situations and the truth of the human condition in its clash with history. It was this search for truth that inspired his experiments with form..."

Mario de Micheli, Siqueiros, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1968.