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Two Women 1914 20th Century 77 3/4 in. x 63 1/2 in. (197.49 cm x 161.29 cm) Diego Rivera (Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957, Mexico City) Object Type: Painting Medium and Support: oil on canvas Credit Line: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Gift of Abby Rockefeller Mauzé, New York. 1955.010 Accession Number: 1955.010 Comments: Diego Rivera's large canvas, Two Women, is well recognized as an imposing painting created during Rivera's early Cubist period while he worked in Europe. Through the use of bright passages alongside ones that are shaded, the viewer can recognize simultaneous multiple viewpoints. This is most evident in the face of the woman on the left. There we can see both her right profile and the front of her face. In the painting's non-figural areas, the artist presents well-executed, but ambiguous passages of front-, middle- and foreground spaces.  Within this style, Rivera has successfully presented a pleasing domestic image of two contented women, in a modernist manner. This work is a portrait of the Russian-Cuban painter Alma Dolores Bastian, a close friend of Rivera, and his wife Angelina Belloff. Dolores Bastian, known in Montparnasse as "Mouscha" arrived in Paris in 1913 from St. Petersburg and occupied a studio in the same building as Rivera and Belloff.

Keywords:

• oil
• painting
• Mexican
• Cubism

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• Drawing: Cubism and the Avante Garde
• Introduction to Collection: Paintings

Keywords:

• Artist:Central America:Mexican
• Class:Fine Arts:painting
• Class:Fine Arts:painting:oil
• Style:Abstraction:Cubism

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