Diego Rivera
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 66 years ago |
| Date of birth | December 8,1886 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Guanajuato |
| Mexico | |
| Date of died | November 24,1957 |
| Died | Mexico City |
| Mexico | |
| Periods | Modern art |
| Social realism | |
| Cubism | |
| Naïve art | |
| Art Deco | |
| Mexican muralism | |
| Realism | |
| Impressionism | |
| Post-Impressionism | |
| Spouse | Emma Hurtado |
| Height | 185 (cm) |
| Movies/Shows | Frida |
| Walls of Fire | |
| Period by artworks | Modern art |
| Social realism | |
| Cubism | |
| Art Deco | |
| Naïve art | |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Education | Antigua Academia de San Carlos |
| Children | Ruth Rivera Marín |
| Marika Rivera | |
| Diego Rivera Jr. | |
| Guadalupe Rivera Marín | |
| Guadalupe Rivera | |
| Works | Detroit Industry Murals |
| The Flower Carrier | |
| Man at the Crossroads | |
| The History of Mexico | |
| Pan American Unity | |
| On view | Museo Dolores Olmedo |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |
| Full name | Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez |
| Business partner | Ruth Rivera Marín |
| Juan O'Gorman | |
| Heriberto Pagelson | |
| Grandchildren | Jean Brusset |
| Juan Coronel Rivera | |
| David Philips | |
| Influencee | Frida Kahlo |
| Louise Nevelson | |
| Ben Shahn | |
| Parents | Diego Rivera Acosta |
| Maria Barrientos | |
| Influences | Pablo Picasso |
| Saturnino Herrán | |
| Paul Cézanne | |
| Georges Braque | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 849622 |
Diego Rivera Life story
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera, was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.
Frida Kahlo art fetches record $34. 9m at auction
A painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold at Sotheby's Auction House in New York for a record $34. 9m (£25m).
It is the highest price paid at auction for a Latin American artwork.
The record had previously been set by a work by Diego Rivera , with whom Kahlo had. His piece sold for $9. 76m in 2018.
Kahlo's painting " Diego y Yo" was was one of her final self-portraits.
The Work depicts a tearful Kahlo with Her Husband Rivera painted above Her Eyes .
It was described by Sotheby's at the auction on Tuesday as " one of The Most important works by Kahlo ever to come to auction".
The buyer has been identified as Eduardo F. Cosantini, who founded a museum in Argentina,
The Painting was last auctioned in 1990 for $1. 4 million.
Kahlo, widely regarded As One of The Greatest painters of the 20Th Century , was famed for her intimate self-portraits reflecting pain and isolation.
She lived from 1907 to 1954 and proudly promoted indigenous Mexican culture through her art.
Her work also chronicled her painful relationship with her body, disabled through childhood polio and severe injuries following a bus Accident .
Source of news: bbc.com
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