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 Copyright the Artist | | | Rivera, Diego (1886 - 1957)
Mexico
Nardos (Nude with flowers), 1944
Oil on canvas mounted on panel;
158 x 119.5 cm
Latin American art
UID 100-950
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Biography
Painter and muralist born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, Mexico. Diego is best known by the public world for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. When his patron Nelson Rockefeller discovered that the mural included a portrait of Lenin and other communist imagery, he fired Rivera, and the unfinished work was eventually destroyed by Rockefeller's staff. The film Cradle Will Rock includes a dramatization of the controversy.
Exhibitions
Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
14-12-2007 ~ 29-02-2008
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