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Diego Rivera DS 1931

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Diego Rivera DS 1931
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Diego Rivera document signed, “Diego Rivera,” Single page, quarto, datelined “Mexico City, Mexico, November 5, 1931.” To Frances Flynn Paine, a “Declaration in Connection with Paintings, etc., and Sculptures” and an “Invoice of Merchandise (not purchased)” with an accompanying typed list, in Spanish, listing works to be shipped to New York for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (16pp). Some of the works listed include La germinación Chapingo, El Piloto, Montañas de Arizona, Sirena, Mujeres bordano, Jesus y Sn. Juan, El Toro, El amor and El Facista A.B.C., and the total works are given a value of $51.425. In July 1931 Frances Flynn Paine, an arts promoter and agent of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, arrived in Mexico to propose a retrospective of Rivera’s work at the Museum of Modern Art, an institution whose 1929 founding was due in large part to the efforts of Mrs. Rockefeller. Paine also counseled Rockefeller to purchase some of Rivera’s paintings soon becoming the painter’s first paid agent. The MoMA exhibit, only the second in the museum’s short history devoted to the works of one artist, was hugely successful and made Rivera and his wife, artist Frida Kahlo, American celebrities. The following year Rivera was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Arts to paint several murals. In 1933, thanks to the efforts of Paine and Nelson Rockefeller (whose interest stemmed, in part, from his mother Abby Aldrich), Rivera left Detroit for New York where he began a mural for the RCA building lobby at Rockefeller Center. Horizontal folds, light wear, otherwise fine condition.