Autorretrato con espejo (Self-portrait with Mirror)
David Alfaro Siqueiros
(Mexican, 1896–1974)
1937
Medium/TechniqueCellulose nitrate paint on board coated with phenolic resin
DimensionsOverall: 76.2 × 61 cm (30 × 24 in.)
Credit LineCharles H. Bayley Picture and Paintings Fund, Sophie M. Friedman Fund, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund, Tompkins Collection—Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, and Gift of Jessie H. Wilkinson—Jessie H. Wilkinson Fund
Accession number2017.3900
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Provenance1937, sold by the artist to George Gershwin (b. 1898 - d. 1937) but received by his mother, Rose Gershwin (b. 1875 - d. 1948), New York; by inheritance to her son, Arthur Gershwin (b. 1900 - d. 1981), New York [see note]; to his son, Marc George Gershwin; 2017, sold by Marc George Gershwin and Andrea Gershwin, through Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 2017)
NOTE: See Laurance P. Hurlburt, "The Siqueiros Experimental Workshop: New York, 1936," Art Journal 25, no. 3 (Spring, 1976), p. 246, n. 13, who writes that Gershwin commissioned the painting from Siqueiros in 1936; and Irene Herner, "David Alfonso Siqueiros: Self-Portrait with Mirror" (essay published for Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York).
NOTE: See Laurance P. Hurlburt, "The Siqueiros Experimental Workshop: New York, 1936," Art Journal 25, no. 3 (Spring, 1976), p. 246, n. 13, who writes that Gershwin commissioned the painting from Siqueiros in 1936; and Irene Herner, "David Alfonso Siqueiros: Self-Portrait with Mirror" (essay published for Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York).
