Self-Portrait Carrying Death On My Head
1981
Artist, American, born Cuba, 1942
Artwork overview
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Medium
acrylic on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 167.64 × 167.64 cm (66 × 66 in.)
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Accession
2024.33.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; purchased by Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico; gift 2024 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1986
Luis Cruz Azaceta: Though Ride around the City, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, 1986, unnumbered checklist.
Inscriptions
lower left: LCA in monogram, zaceta: LCAZACETA
upper right: ESQUELETO
on verso: [signed and dated] / LCA [artist's monogram] / "CARRYING / ON / MY/ HEAD" / THIS PAINTING WAS FINISHED THE DAY (MAY 13, 1981)THE PoPE was SHoT.