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Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Siqueiros por Siqueiros

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

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Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

David Alfaro Siqueiros

1896 - 1974


Siqueiros por Siqueiros

signed Siqueiros, titled and dated Taxco 3-1930 (lower left)

oil on canvas

39 by 31 in.

99 by 79 cm.

Executed in 1930.

National Heritage Lot - Lots with this symbol are part of the National Heritage of Mexico and cannot be permanently exported from Mexico. Accordingly, the lot will be offered for sale in New York but will not be available in New York for inspection or delivery. The lot will be released to the buyer in Mexico in compliance with all local requirements. Prospective buyers may contact Replica Shoes ’s representatives in Mexico City and Monterrey at sothebys.mexico@sothebys.com for an appointment to view the work.

Weyhe Gallery, New York

Jacques and Natasha Gelman, Mexico City (acquired from the above)

Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired by descent from the above in 1998)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Mexico City, Centro Cultural | Arte Contemporáneo, La colección de pintura mexicana de Jacques y Natasha Gelman, 1990, no. 82

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1996, p. 86, pl. 21, illustrated in color

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, Portrait of a Decade: David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1930-1940, 1997, no. 1, p. 101, illustrated in color

Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Peinture moderne au Mexique-Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman, 1999, p. 113, illustrated in color; p. 112

Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa, Arte Mexicano, Colección Jacques y Natasha Gelman, 1999, no. 26, p. 81, illustrated in color; p. 107

San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art; Dallas Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2000-01, no. 89, p. 141, illustrated in color; p. 198

Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2001-02, n.n., pp. 76, illustrated in color; p. 89

New York, El Museo del Barrio, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2002

Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Frida Kahlo, 2014, n.n., p. 104, illustrated in color

Bologna, Palazzo Albergati, La Collezione Gelman: arte messicana del XX secolo, 2016-17, no. 14, p. 105, illustrated in color; pp. 104 and 185

Ishøj, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Frida Kahlo: A Life in Art, 2013-14, no. 53, p. 109

New York, Mary-Anne Replica Handbags s, Artists by Artists, 2018

"More Modern Mexican Art," New York Times, 9 January 1932, p. 20

Blanca Luz Brum, "David Alfaro Siqueiros y su 'revolucionaria pistola de aire,'" Repertorio Americano, vol. 25, no. 12, 24 September 1932, p. 1

Luis Cardoza y Aragón, La nube y el reloj, Mexico City, 1940, no. 17

MacKinley Helm, Modern Mexican Painters, New York, 1941 & 1974, no. 35, p. 91, illustrated (titled Self-Portrait)

Xavier Moyssén, David Alfaro Siquieros: Pintura de cabellete, Mexico City, 1994, no. 6, p. 110, illustrated in color; p. 130

Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, Siqueiros por Siqueiros, 1996, no. 4

Luis Cardoza y Aragón, La nube y el reloj: Pintura Contemporánea Mexicana, Mexico City, 2003, p. 208, illustrated in color; p. 316

Irene Herner de Larrea, Siqueiros, del paraíso a la utopía Mexico City, 2004, no. 141, p. 675, illustrated in color

Rebecca Zamora, "Shifra Goldman and David Alfaro Siqueiros’s América Tropical," Getty Research Journal, no. 6, January 2014, p. 120, fig. 4, illustrated in color