The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1896 - 1974
La peña de los amantes (De los compadres)
signed Siqueiros (lower right); dated CP. 12-63 (lower left); signed Siqueiros, titled and dated Carcel Preventiva Dic 14 - 1963 (on the reverse)
Pyroxylin on panel
31 ⅝ by 24 in.
80.3 by 61 cm.
Executed on 14 December 1963.
Condition Report
Provenance
Galería Arvil, Mexico City
Francisco and Laura Osio, Scottsdale (acquired by 1987)
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Vienna, Messepalast and Dallas Museum of Art, Images of Mexico: The Contribution of Mexico to 20th Century Art, December 1987 - October 1988, no. 292, p. 218, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, Octavio Paz: los privilegios de la vista, March - June 1990, no. 93, p. 209, illustrated in color and p. 512