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Seeking Divorce. Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta, 53, toad-shaped Mexican muralist otherwise known as Diego Rivera; and his third wife, Frida Kahlo Rivera, 29, svelte German-Mexican modernist painter, classed by Diego among the four or five best in the world, owner of the Coyoacán haven where Leon Trotsky spent two years in exile; in Mexico City. Explained Muralist Rivera, his pet monkey perched on his shoulder: "There is no change in the magnificent relations between us. We are doing it in order to improve Frida...
...when Norway followed the suit of many another nation and asked restless Revolutionary Léon Trotsky to leave its shores, Mexico's famed Muralist Diego Rivera arranged to have the exile go to Mexico. Muralist Rivera's young, pretty German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo, a painter in her own right, put Trotsky in the blue-washed, bougainvillea-covered house in Coyoacán where she had been born, told him to stay as long as he wanted. At first the Trotskys and the Riveras got along beautifully. Diego Rivera issued a furious pro-Trotskyist manifesto...
...land with fantasy. The wave receded; Mexico slept again; Rivera went to Paris and for ten years labored at Cubism in Montparnasse. He found his true style on his return, in his great Mexican frescoes. First with a beautiful, pantherish model named Guadalupe Marin and later with pretty Frida Kahlo, Rivera lived an active revolutionary life until 1929, when the Communist Party expelled...
Flutter of the week in Manhattan was caused by the first exhibition of paintings by famed Muralist Diego Rivera's German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo. Too shy to show her work before, black-browed little Frida has been painting since 1926, when an automobile smashup put her in a plaster cast, "bored as hell...
...these latest Rivera murals were constructed in steel frames. Even so they had to be set up. plastered and painted in the Heckscher Building itself. Rivera arrived in New York a month ago with his faithful plasterer Ramon Alva, his pretty little Mexican wife, the former Frieda Kahlo, and has been painting his exhibition ten hours a day. only stopping to drink great quantities of milk...