Photograph
Dimensions not provided
Provenance: Jean Charlot, Honolulu, HI
This circa 1920 photograph shows Diego Rivera seated among Mexican dignitaries and cultural figures at a formal gathering. The image belongs to the early post-revolutionary period in Mexico, when artists, writers, officials, and intellectuals were closely involved in shaping national cultural life. Its Jean Charlot provenance gives the photograph a meaningful connection to another artist deeply associated with Mexican modernism.
The banquet setting, formal dress, and decorated interior place the image within a public or institutional social context rather than a studio portrait. Rivera’s presence gives the photograph art-historical interest, while the wider group setting broadens its value as a document of Mexican cultural and civic circles. As a framed photograph, it fits within post-revolutionary Mexican history, Mexican modernism, and early twentieth-century documentary photography.
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Photograph
Dimensions not provided
Provenance: Jean Charlot, Honolulu, HI
This circa 1920 photograph shows Diego Rivera seated among Mexican dignitaries and cultural figures at a formal gathering. The image belongs to the early post-revolutionary period in Mexico, when artists, writers, officials, and intellectuals were closely involved in shaping national cultural life. Its Jean Charlot provenance gives the photograph a meaningful connection to another artist deeply associated with Mexican modernism.
The banquet setting, formal dress, and decorated interior place the image within a public or institutional social context rather than a studio portrait. Rivera’s presence gives the photograph art-historical interest, while the wider group setting broadens its value as a document of Mexican cultural and civic circles. As a framed photograph, it fits within post-revolutionary Mexican history, Mexican modernism, and early twentieth-century documentary photography.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
