Desnudo con alcatraces
$ 40,000.00
Size:125x170cm
Master weaver: Maria Luisa González Pérez
Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed using natural dyes: Yauhtli (Tagetes Lucida) for yellows, natural black wool and anilie dyes for the bright colors. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed and wool rayon blend for warp.
Design, patterns and symbols. Inspired in Diego Rivera's painting 'Nude with Calla Lillies'. This was painted in 1944 and it's one of the few works he did that year. Also known as Desnudo con alcatraces, it lacks the searing social and political commentary so frequently found in Rivera paintings. This painting was originally done in oil on hardboard at 61.8 x 48.8 in / 157 x 124 cm.
The painting was done just after his two great murals for the National Institute of Cardiology and before the enormous mural Great City of Tenochtitlan.
