Diego Rivera ca. 1910

Diego Rivera:  Master Cubist

By 1913 Diego Rivera was fascinated by the early cubist movement, led by celebrated Spaniard Pablo Picasso, and started experimenting with cubism himself.  By 1914 Diego was viewed as one of the more interesting members of the Cubist movement, one of the avant garde.  Diego was a great admirer of Pablo Picasso, and they became close friends...  Diego confides that in Paris, when they were by themselves, they would have the best of times saying things about other painters they would never tell anybody else!!!

Portrait of Jacques Lipschitz, 1914

The sculptor Jacques Lipschitz, The Man in the Sweather, was a close friend of Diego, and with him in Mallorca and Barcelona at the beginning of WWI.  Notice the Mexican color paterns by the shoulders.

Paisaje de Mallorca, 1914

Portrait of Two Women, 1914

Sailor at Breakfast, 1914

The Cafe Terrace, 1915

The Cafe Terrace (1915), shows a delightful Parisian cafe table, filled with goodies such as a sundae and possibly a box of fine cigars!  The balance and textures are outstanding!

Still Life with Gray Bowl, 1915

Portrait of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, 1915

The Architect, 1915

Portrait of Marevna Vorobev-Stebelska, ca. 1915

Marevna, a young, beutiful and gifted Russian painter, lived with Diego for about one half year, however, Marevna was extremely hot-blooded, and they did not part on friendly terms!

Zapatista Landscape (front, 1915) and Woman at a Well (back, 1913)

Diego Rivera's Zapatista Landscape - The Guerrilla is a clear expression of Diego's Mexican heritage and the (Mexican) Revolution mood that was surrounding him.  On the back of this painting we find the Woman at the Well, painted about two years earlier...

Motherhood - Angelina and the Child Diego, 1916

Portrait of Bertha Kritosser, 1916

Eiffel Tower, 1916

Still Life in Oval, 1916

Portrait of M. Volochine, 1917

Douglas Cooper, The Cubist Epoch, Phaidon Press Ltd., p130, p209, 1994.

Diego Jauregui, Diego Rivera, Col. del Carmen, p14, p67, 1994.

Patrick Marnham, Dreaming with His Eyes open..., Alfred A. Knopf, p242, 1998.

Andrea Kettenmann, Rivera, Taschen, p17, p18, p19, 1997.

Cynthia Newman Helms, Diego Rivera, W. W. Norton & Co., p122, 1986.

James N. Wood, Twentieth-Century Painting..., The Art Institute of Chicago, p34, 1996.

Diego Rivera Self Portrait, 1918