Mexican Painter Diego Rivera (december 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957)

Mexican painter Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957)
Clay vase inlaid with mosaic in the style of Aztec culture.
Fired clay Vase
Marked on the base + dedication to Frida
Height: 52 cm
Width: 35 cm
Base: 17 cm

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera a Barrientos Acosta a Rodrígueza
abbreviated: Diego Rivera was Prominent Mexican painter, active communist, and husband of painter Frida Kahlo

He is considered one of the main representatives of muralism, an avant-garde artistic expression associated with the Mexican Revolution. Between 1922 and 1953, he painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. In 1931, the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a retrospective exhibition of his work.

He exhibited in New York, Munich, Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam and Brussels.