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01 – Flower Day (Dia De Flores)
Flower Day (Día de Flores)
Diego Rivera (Mexico, 1886-1957)
Mexico, 1925
Paintings
Oil on canvas
58 × 47 1/2 in. (147.32 × 120.65 cm)
Los Angeles County Fund (25.7.1)
Latin American Art
Throughout his career, Diego Rivera created numerous easel paintings and watercolors representing the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Flower Day (Día de flores) is his earliest and most accomplished depiction of a seller of calla lilies. The unusual perspective of the flowers, which are seen from above, and the blocklike forms of the figures are stylistic devices derived from Rivera's earlier cubist paintings.
Ilona Katzew, 2008