Self-Portrait Carrying Death On My Head, 1981

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Medium

acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 167.64 × 167.64 cm (66 × 66 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Accession Number

2024.33.4

Artists / Makers

Luis Cruz Azaceta (artist) American, born Cuba, 1942

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

The artist; purchased by Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico; gift 2024 to NGA.

Associated Names

Berezdivin Collection

Exhibition History

1986: Luis Cruz Azaceta: Though Ride around the City, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, 1986, unnumbered checklist.