Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism

Palazzo Ducale
Italy, Genoa
September 20, 2014 - February 8, 2015

Days of exhibition

141


From the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection

The exhibition is curated by Helga Prignitz-Poda, with the collaboration of Christina Kahlo (Frida Kahlo’s great-granddaughter) and Juan Coronel Rivera (Diego Rivera’s nephew). It features 200 works, including paintings and drawings, and over 80 photographs, and presents the intimate relationship between famous Mexican couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The section dedicated to Diego Rivera includes a series of paintings produced in the early 20th century, which were inspired by Cubism (for example The last hour and Saint Martin’s Bridge), figurative art, the frescoes of Italian painters as well as the early Christian and Byzantine mosaics that Rivera studied during his trip to Italy. The latter are represented in his Italian Sketchbook, the inspiration for what would later become Mexican muralism. Rivera’s work was very much in fashion among Mexican high society. Some of its representatives are included in the exhibition. One of them, Natasha Gelman, was portrayed by both Rivera and Kahlo.


 

Photogallery |

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism

Artworks |

  • Self Portrait On Bed
    Frida Kahlo

  • Portrait With Red and Gold Dress
    Frida Kahlo

  • Portrait Of Natasha Gelman
    Frida Kahlo

  • Diego on my Mind
    Frida Kahlo

  • Portrait With Necklace
    Frida Kahlo

  • Self-Portrait with Braid
    Frida Kahlo

  • The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl
    Frida Kahlo

  • Frida Khalo painting the The Wounded Table
    Bernard Silberstein

  • Frida with flowers in her hair
    Bernard Silberstein

  • Frida paints diego on my mind while Diego watches
    Bernard Silberstein

  • Carma
    Frida Kahlo

  • Portrait of Arcady Boitler Recto and Eyes Verso
    Frida Kahlo

Trailer |

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