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Twilight
1954
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican, 1896–1974)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Twilight, 1954. David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican, 1896–1974). Pyroxylin on board mounted on masonite; unframed: 56 x 71 cm (22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun 1995.174 © Artists Rights Society, (ARS), New York Many of Siqueiros’s landscapes are apocalyptic in content. Painted after the Hiroshima bombing and in the early years of the Cold War, Siqueiros offers an image of the end of the world centered around an explosive sun.
- Maker/Artist
- Siqueiros, David Alfaro
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- pyroxylin on board mounted on masonite
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 56 x 71 cm (22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed in black paint lower right: Siqueiros/54
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1995.174
- Credit Line
- Gift of Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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