“[His] brooding figures graced exhibits from Paris to New York during a career as a painter, sculptor, writer, draftsman and engraver that spanned more than seven decades. Cultivating the image of a philandering ‘tomcat'” – he claimed to have had hundreds of partners, once included his semen in an exhibition, and offered to impregnate any woman who wanted to have his baby – “Cuevas drew on the work of Francisco de Goya and Pablo Picasso, and his depictions of dark, deformed, animal-like figures were a sharp break with the socialist-tinged muralism long popular in Mexico.”