Diego Rivera ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Diego Rivera: 1924, shot by Edward Weston

1886 Guanajuato, Mexico - 1957 Mexico City, Mexico. Known for: Social realist mural painting.

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Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada, whose printmaking shop stood near the school. At the age of twenty he won a traveling scholarship and spent the next three years in . museums and painting in Europe, expressing little of what he felt. In 1910 he returned to Mexico and became involved in the revolution that ended with the forcing... Read full biography

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"Pareja Campesina"

Type:Drawing

Size:5.25" x 3.50"

Medium:Pencil

Signed:Lower Right

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Neal Auction June 5 Lot 426. Diego Rivera, Mexican, 1886-1957, "Pareja Campesina", graphite on paper, signed lower right, letter of authentication and provenance from Juan Hurtado y Santacruz signed and dated 2001 and Agustín Cristóbal business card, on backing paper, framed with artist plaque.

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