Men and Machines

Men and Machines is one of the most representative works of the maturity stage of the Spanish painter and sculptor Guillermo Silveira (1922-1987), classifiable within a short series of achievements considered by the author himself as "an attempt to capture the world of work",[1] in which "some laborers working with a tar machine" are represented. [2] It is painted in oil on canvas and its dimensions are 160 x 89 cm.

As for its theme, it is partly due to a second version of the unique Figure and cars,[3] exhibited in Alicante in November 1967,[4] which was acquired "the minute after it was inaugurated. Why tell him more" by an anonymous French collector for an amount of 25,000 pesetas. [5][6] There is even a piece of the same name (Men and Machines, 1963. Mixed media on paper, 32 x 43 cm. Col. particular, Mérida), which despite sharing the same title has nothing to do with the previous two.