portrait of a figure in profile view, with colorful imagery inside figure; smoking cigar in mouth of figure, with mustache, bushy eyebrows and dark hair; image of colorful tree, with the branches cut off in the center of the figure's face; burning house in chest area, with a serpent-like creature with jagged teeth coming out of the doorway of the house; severed leg at PL shoulder; thin, colorful squiggly lines throughout; tiny arm extending off of the PR shoulder; white background

Self-Portrait: I Feel Like Fire Today!, 1981

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Title
Self-Portrait: I Feel Like Fire Today!
Artist Life
American (born Cuba), born 1942
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2020.96.56
Provenance
[Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, Calif.]; Private collection, New York; [George Adams Gallery, New York, sold to Mersky, July 2020]; Robert B. Mersky, Minneapolis; given to MIA, 2020.
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portrait of a figure in profile view, with colorful imagery inside figure; smoking cigar in mouth of figure, with mustache, bushy eyebrows and dark hair; image of colorful tree, with the branches cut off in the center of the figure's face; burning house in chest area, with a serpent-like creature with jagged teeth coming out of the doorway of the house; severed leg at PL shoulder; thin, colorful squiggly lines throughout; tiny arm extending off of the PR shoulder; white background
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