Lot 202A
New World, Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957), pencil sketch, 1950 CE. Signed and dated in pencil on lower right, an original charcoal drawing of a native ceremonial dance or ritual, presenting several figures donning elaborate headdresses and wielding long staffs, including a child in the center, the group processing in a circle - possibly a study for Rivera's mural in the National Palace in Mexico City, i.e. "Cultura Totonaca Mexico prehispanico y colonial" of 1950. That mural features a group of indigenous peoples dancing around a pyramid - a structure that Rivera subtly indicates in this sketch. Also depicted are figures donning headdresses and carrying staffs as in this sketch. Custom mat and frame. Size: 9.625" L x 14.5" W (24.4 cm x 36.8 cm); 16.625" L x 21.125" W (42.2 cm x 53.7 cm) including mat and frame
One of Los Tres Grandes (the Three Great Ones, along with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco), the Mexican social realist artist Diego Rivera pursued revolutionary themes inspired by the Spanish Civil War and the Mexican Revolution, and as a pioneer of the Mexican Mural Renaissance, Rivera also championed an appreciation for indigenous cultures, customs, and art forms as exemplified in this work.
Perhaps the most famous of Los Tres Grandes (the Three Great Ones) of Mexican Modernism, Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato and moved to Mexico City in the early 1890s with his family. According to his biographies, Rivera's childhood bedroom walls were covered with canvas so that he could draw whenever the spirit moved him. He finished high school by age 12 and began study at San Carlos Academy, Mexico's national school of art. There he was immersed in the study of Mexican art - including both paintings and folk art - and traveled to see ancient creations of the Maya and Aztec civilizations of his heritage. Rivera lived in Europe sponsored by a government grant from 1910 to 1920, during the tumultuous years of the Mexican Revolution and World War I. There he was inspired by Italian Renaissance frescoes, Spanish art, as well as modernism flourishing in Paris, especially Cubism developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Upon his return to Mexico, Rivera blended the various techniques and styles he had learned throughout the years and across the continents to create artwork that focused on the daily life of the Mexican people and the indigenous cultures of Mexico - celebrating his country's native traditions.
Provenance: private D. C. collection, California, USA; D. C. is an Emmy Award winning Hollywood writer and Executive Producer, collected before 2000
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- Condition: Faint creases, but otherwise very good. Backing on verso shows minor wear from age, but old consignor and Klein Vogel labels remain on verso. Wired for suspension.
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