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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
El Centauro de la Conquista (The Centaur of the Conquest)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

El Centauro de la Conquista (The Centaur of the Conquest)

Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican, 1896 - 1974)
Date1944-1945
Made/manufacturedMexico
MediumLithograph
DimensionsMat: 28 x 22 in. (71.12 x 55.88 cm)
Paper: 24 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (62.87 x 52.07 cm)
Image: 21 1/2 x 18 1/8 in. (54.61 x 46.04 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Acquisition Endowment
Object number2018.51.1
Collections
DescriptionA centaur (half-human, half-horse) rears back on its hind legs; the centaur holds a huge sword in one hand and a Christian cross in the other hand; it has been injured by a spear in its side.

Numbered in pencil (lower left margin): "E/7"
Signed in pencil (lower right margin): "DA Siqueiros"
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David Alfaro Siqueiros
1929
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John Gould
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Karel Appel
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Karel Appel
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