His mother María del Pilar Barrientos was said to have converso ancestry ( Spanish ancestors who were forced to convert from Judaism to Catholicism in the 15th and 16th centuries). His twin brother Carlos died two years after they were born. Rivera was born on December 8, 1886, as one of twin boys in Guanajuato, Mexico, to María del Pilar Barrientos and Diego Rivera Acosta, a well-to-do couple. Īmedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Diego Rivera, 1914 The 1931 painting The Rivals, part of the record-setting Collection of Peggy Rockefeller and David Rockefeller, sold for US$9.76 million.
As of 2018, Rivera holds the record for highest price at auction for a work by a Latin American artist.
He was married a fifth time, to his agent.ĭue to his importance in the country's art history, the government of Mexico declared Rivera's works as monumentos historicos. His third wife was fellow Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, with whom he had a volatile relationship that continued until her death. His first child and only son died at the age of two. Rivera had numerous marriages and children, including at least one natural daughter.
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In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this was before he completed his 27-mural series known as Detroit Industry Murals.
His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.īetween 19, Rivera painted murals in, among other places, Mexico City, Chapingo, and Cuernavaca, Mexico and San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City, United States. Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera ( Spanish pronunciation: Decem– November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter.
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