Image

José Clemente Orozco

Requiem, 1935

Now On View

Description

Maker

Title

Requiem

Year

1935

Medium

Lithograph on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

31.4 x 41.3 cm (12 3/8 x 16 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Label removed from frame the work arrived in: N. M. Vose Gallery/ Pictures and Frames/ Providence, Rhode Island

Type

Credit

Bequest of Frederick Lippitt

Object Number

2007.98.11

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

In Requiem, José Clemente Orozco depicts a huddled group of people, some of them kneeling, perhaps in prayer, while others are collapsed, surrendering to grief. Mourning is not an unusual theme in Orozco's work, which often captures the failures of the Mexican Revolution, his distrust for Mexico’s political system, and his admiration for Mexican people. The dark doorway may suggest the unsettling future he saw for the nation.

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