Word: rivera
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...indeed interesting. Although you mention Rivera, Picasso and Gris, you omit friendship with Fellow Artist Modigliani. GERARD ZIERLER...
...Spain's fratricide was too bloody and too recent. Loyalists refused to have their dead entombed with their enemies; Franco's own Nationalists objected to burial beside Loyalists. "Absolutely not," snapped Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of Falangist Founder Jose Antonio, when she heard that Franco planned to move her brother's body from El Escorial (where Spain's kings are entombed...
...Cubist. When, at 18, Lipchitz first arrived in Paris from his birthplace in Lithuania, his taste was for the classic Greeks. His early works won the praise of the aging Rodin. Then Mexican Painter Diego Rivera took him to Montmartre to meet Picasso. Soon Lipchitz was the kid cubist, friend of Painter Juan Gris and Patron Gertrude Stein, and flat broke...
...theme is the innocence of love and the frailty of innocence, exemplified by various scenes of life on the Rivera, in a one-room cold-water flat, behind the bushes of a country estate, and upstairs with the pimpled maid...
...sense, the two paintings and the one sculpture witnessing Dr. Morley's farewell party one night last week were symbols in miniature of her long career. The Diego Rivera harked back to the 1930s, when San Francisco artists were caught up in Diego's own on-the-spot enthusiasm for filling vast wall surfaces with frescoes. Symbolic of what she calls "the incredible years of 1947 to 1949, when this wave of something new swept over us," was the big Clyfford Still abstraction by the man who, along with Mark Rothko, sparked San Francisco's abstract...