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Rivera left his native Mexico for Europe in 1909 and settled in Paris, where he lived until 1920. While there he joined the artistic avant-garde galvanized by the Cubist experiments of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. He submitted this portrait of his friend, the Lithuanian-born sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, to the 1914 Salon des Indépendants. Rivera renders the sitter in a neutral palette in a grid-like structure that anchors diagonal planes. Vibrant, striped details around Lipchitz’s head evoke the serape, a shawl-like textile and emblem of Rivera’s home country.
2024
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? - February 1929, Valentine Gallery (Valentine Dudensing), New York.
February 1929 - 1941, Thomas Catesby Jones (1880-1946), New Nork, purchased from Valentine Gallery.
1941, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from T. Catesby Jones.
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Diego Rivera
Mexican, 1886–1957 92 works onlineAt the height of his career, Diego Rivera was an international art celebrity. Trained at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, he spent more than a decade in Europe, becoming a leading figure in Paris’s vibrant international community of avant-garde artists.
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A representation of a particular individual, usually intended to capture their likeness or personality.
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A Cubist Salon
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