7TH ANNUAL SPRING SALE NOW
*Price Shown is the Sale Price

AUCTIONING HIGH END ARTWORK ON MAY 30TH FROM 5pm to 9pm MST

ARTISTS INCLUDE: N.C.WYETH,  GERALD CASSIDY, DAVID BURLIUK, PATROCINO BARELA, EDITH BRISCOE STEVENS, ELIZABETH CATLETT, PABLITA VELARDE, OLD MASTER DRAWINGS, HUNT DIEDERICH, ANTON MAUVE, WILL HUTCHINS,  MAX LUNA, HOWARD COOK,  HERBERT DUTTON, JOSE DOLORES LOPEZ, NAVAJO RUGS, NELL DORR, EDWARD WESTON, PICASSO, DIEGO RIVERA, JOY LAVILLE, CHARLES DANA GIBSON,  ARTHUR B. DAVIES, MARGARET TAFOYA,   GISELLA LOEFFLER, ANTHONY THIEME, KATHE KOLLEWITZ, EDITH HEAD, KENNETH M CHAPMAN, LEON GASPARD, ALSON CLARK, EUGENE HIGGINS, FREDERIC REMINGTON, HENRI CROSS, CONSTANCE MACKY, WALT KUHN,  JOSEPH SACKS, JULES PASCIN, WARREN ROLLINS, E. I. COUSE

DANIEL HERNANDEZ MORILLO,  EDITH WHITE, GILBERT ATENCIO, MAX KUEHNE, SIGMUND MENKES, JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG, JOHN SINGER SARGENT, JACK WILKINSON SMITH, CARL WOOLSEY, J J ENNEKING,  MICHEL VEDANI, GERALD NAILOR, JOSEPH MEEKER, HARRISON BEGAY, MOSE TOLLIVER, REGINALD MARSH, THOMAS HART BENTON, CHARLES BUCKLES FALLS, OLIVE RUSH, JOHN FERY, ANNA SKEELE,  ARNOLD RONNEBECK, RUDOLPH DIRKS, TONY ABEYTA, GENE KLOSS, HENRY REDMORE,  LOUIS SIEGREIST, SAMUEL FULTON, JULES LEPAGE, BART. ASSTEYN, ARTHUR RACKHAM, ELEANOR COLBURN, PETER HURD, JEAN MANNHEIM, ODA KAZUMA, MAURICE LOGAN, HANNIBAL ALKHAS, JUNIUS SLOAN, MAX LUNA, FRANK PENFOLD, LILLY MARTIN SPENCER

FRANK SHAPLEIGH, JOSEPH SHARP,  WILLIAM SHERWOOD, WALTON LEADER, ROSSO FORINTINO, ILA MCAFEE, CLAUDE HOWELL, ZOLTAN SEPESHY, WILL SHUSTER, LOUISE DE GUIMARD, NELLIE KNOPF,  MAX ARNOLD, ROBERT MARC,  LUKE CLELLEN, NAMPEYO, DULAH KREHBIEL, ALBERT KREHBIEL

7TH ANNUAL SPRING SALE NOW

ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............DIEGO RIVERA.............'LEON VENADO', WATERCOLOR ON PAPER, 9.5" x 11"............

RARE AND GORGEOUS RIVERA WATERCOLOR.............ONE OF TWO NOW LISTED.................

This is a 9.5 x 11" Original and Vintage watercolor on paper by the very important Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera, 1886-1957. This is from the estate of Frida Kahlo's physician Leo Eloesser, so stated on back. The image is of Leon Venado, assistant to Diego as well as Pablo O'Higgins. The information on Venado is listed in Spanish in the photos. The watercolor is in fine condition. Unframed.

Provenance:

The Artist
Estate of Leo Eloesser, physician to Frida Kahlo
Estate of Francis Kercheville, Albuquerque


The Biography Follows

Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is considered by many to be the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century. His contributions to modern Mexican art came in the form of mural as well as conventional painting. Probably the most important credit attributed to Rivera was his reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture, which incited the entire Mexican muralism movement.

Diego Rivera was born in 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico and began studying painting at an early age. His artistic abilities became apparent early on and his talent was fostered by scholarships from the Mexican government and travels to Europe. As a young man Rivera moved to Europe and spent most of 1907 until 1921 in Paris, where he encountered and was influenced by the work of great masters, including Cezanne, Gauguin and Matisse. In 1920, Rivera traveled to Italy, where he studied Renaissance frescos and investigated the mural techniques of Giotto. It was Giotto's work that provoked Diego Rivera to use the fresco as a means to present his imagery to the everyday lives of the people.

Diego Rivera returned to Mexico with a vision of the fresco in his mind as well as a strong allegiance to public art. Along with David Alfaro Siqueros and Jose Clemente Orozco, Rivera founded what is known as the "Mexican school of painting." Mural painting was so attractive to these men because it allowed them to take their art to a broad audience, to the streets and to the buildings while using a precise and direct language with a realistic style, full of social meaning.
Diego Rivera was very involved in politics and his artistic vocabulary demonstrated this while also incorporating the imagery of modern European masters with Aztec and Mayan symbols. Rivera's art combined images of Mexico's pre-Colombian past with themes of the Mexican Revolution and the customs and daily lives of the people. Throughout his career, images of the land, the factory and the land workers persisted. "Landscape in Chihuahua" is indicative of his interest in his homeland as well as the indigenous style that persisted throughout his career.

As ever this is guaranteed 100% money back, to be as represented.