Blanton Museum of Art - Mujer frente el espejo [Woman in Front of a Mirror]

Mujer frente el espejo [Woman in Front of a Mirror]

1917
20th century
19.7 x 13.8 cm (7 3/4 x 5 7/16 in.)

Diego Rivera (Guanajuato, Mexico, 1886 - 1957, Mexico City) Primary

Object Type: drawing

Artist Nationality: Latin America, Mexican

Medium and Support: Ink on parchment paper

Credit Line: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Judy S. and Charles W. Tate, 2016

Accession Number: 2016.114

Before achieving fame for his mural paintings, Diego Rivera spent time in Paris, where he participated in the cubist movement and befriended a group of Russian émigrés. In 1916, he collaborated with his friend Ilya Ehrenburg, a Russian writer and journalist, on a small book entitled "An Account of the Life of One Nadienka and of Certain Revelations She Had." Rivera produced seven drawings, including this one, used to illustrate a poem by Ehrenburg. Here he represents a domestic space perceived from multiple perspectives and animated with realistic details. The disjointed view extends to the figure of Nadienka, whose shadow suggests a hidden voluptuousness.

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