Diego Rivera - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 26, 2015 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015

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    Diego Rivera

    Mexican • 1886 - 1957

    Diego Rivera began drawing at the age of three, and by ten he was enrolled at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City. In 1907, he traveled to Europe on a scholarship to continue his artistic studies. Whilst in Paris, Rivera embraced the advent of Cubism, and later Post-Impressionism, taking inspiration from such European artists as Picasso and Cézanne.

    In 1921, Rivera returned to Mexico and became involved in the government-sponsored Mexican mural program. He became best-known for his frescoes painted in a distinctive style characterized by bold colors and ample, Renaissance-inspired figures. Rivera was an atheist and joined the Mexican Communist party in 1922. He was married five times, including twice to Frida Kahlo, with whom he had a famously volatile relationship.

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Property from a Private Collection, Detroit

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Diego Rivera

Desnudo de Frida Kahlo

1930
Lithograph, on thin wove paper, with full margins,
I. 16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. (41.9 x 27.6 cm)
S. 22 3/8 x 16 3/8 in. (56.8 x 41.6 cm)
signed, dated `1930' and numbered 97-100 in black crayon, published by Weyhe Gallery, New York, framed.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $20,000

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015