Diego Rivera (1886-1957)

María Félix, El Amor

細節

Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
María Félix, El Amor
watercolor and color pen on rice paper
11 x 8½in. (28 x 21.5cm.)
Drawn in 1949

來源

Gift from the artist to Olga Campos
Private collection, Dallas

拍品專文

Olga Campos interviewed Diego Rivera in 1949 for a book she was preparing on the creative process. When she asked him to draw a personification of 'love', he made this drawing, which he said was María Félix, Mexico's film star. He said he was in love with her and planned to marry her soon.

Salomon Grimberg

Dallas, Sept. 1997