Self-portrait
Alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, Siqueiros was one of the three mural painters known collectively as Los tres grandes (The Three Greats) who decorated the walls of public buildings throughout Mexico and in the United States.
This is Siqueiros’s second attempt at a lithograph self-portrait; an earlier one made in New York in 1934 was never printed. The huge scale of his head reflects his experience as a muralist and possibly the view that he took of the importance of his work.
This is Siqueiros’s second attempt at a lithograph self-portrait; an earlier one made in New York in 1934 was never printed. The huge scale of his head reflects his experience as a muralist and possibly the view that he took of the importance of his work.
Artwork Details
- Title: Self-portrait
- Artist: David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican, Camargo 1896–1974 Cuernevaca)
- Sitter: David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican, Camargo 1896–1974 Cuernevaca)
- Date: 1936–37
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 22 13/16 × 15 3/4 in. (58 × 40 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: John B. Turner Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.692.6
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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