Diego Rivera Mexican Modernist Oil on Canvas – June 6, 2019
Oil on canvas, stretched. Featuring a landscape scene. Signed Diego Rivera on the lower left corner. Stamped with red wax seal on verso. Attributed to Diego Rivera (1886-1957, Mexican). 33 x 55 cm (13.0 x 21.7 inches)
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Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was one of Mexico’s most acclaimed painters whose large fresco works helped bring about the Mexican Muralist movement. A committed Communist, much of Rivera’s imagery was based in his political allegiances, especially his Detroit Industry Murals (1933), which depicts workers and machinery at the Ford Motor Company. “All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters,” he once proclaimed. “Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. I want to use my art as a weapon.”
Born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico he studied at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts. In 1902, he was expelled from the institution for leading a student protest. As a result, Rivera embarked on journeys throughout Mexico and abroad. He eventually made his way to Madrid, briefly working under the artist Eduardo Chicharro, and moved to Paris in 1909 where he was deeply influenced by Pablo Picasso’s Cubist works.
Rivera was married four times, most famously to fellow Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Though the couple divorced in 1939, they remarried a year later and remained together until Kahlo’s death. Rivera died on November 24, 1957 in Mexico City at the age of 70. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museo Diego Rivera in Mexico City, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, among others.
Auction Overview
Richmond Hill, ON – 410 fresh to market items will be available to the discerning buyers and collectors in 888 Auctions’ June 6th auction featuring the finest in PAINTINGS, MODERN ART & ASIAN ANTIQUES 2019-06-06. Taking place in the afternoon at 2 PM (EST), bidders will be competing against one another over a variety of items on display.
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