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Michael
Michael
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1 year ago
María Asúnsolo, with her startling beauty, exceptional intelligence, and warm/open nature, became a muse, friend, protector, and confidant of painters ... who painted her again and again. This portrait of María descending a staircase is a spectacular and insinuating work. Signed and dated 1935, with the dedication "A mi adorada e inolvidable María Asúnsolo" (To my adored and unforgettable María Asúnsolo). There is also a cryptic message (C.T.M.E.Y.M.C.) which could mean ""Con todo mi estimación y mi cariño" or "With all my esteem and my affection" to express Siqueiros's deep passion for Asúnsolo. The theatrical presentation of the model, in her thin silk dress, likely refers to one of the clichés of Mexican cinema: la entrada a la fiesta making a grand entrance to a party. The works remained in the collection of Asúnsolo until 1988, when it was acquired by the National Institute of Fine Arts and became part of the founding heritage of the Museo Nacional de Arte (National Museum of Art) in Mexico City, along with other portraits of Asúnsolo made by Jesús Guerrero Galván, Juan Soriano, Federico Cantú and Diego Rivera among others. In the mid 1930's when this painting was completed, María had turned her apartment on Reforms Avenue into the María Asúnsolo Art Gallery (GAMA), where she exhibited prestigious artists including the painter of this portrait: David Alfaro Siqueiros. Long after her divorce from German husband Auguste Diener and love affair with Siqueiros, she remained an active patron of the arts until the 1980s when she donated all her paintings to the museum and moved to spend her remaining years in Cuernavaca. María often refused to tell her age and forged birth certificates to affirm her Mexican-ness; however, she was actually born in the United States, the daughter of a French-Canadian mother, Marie Mortand, and a Mexican father, Mauel Dolores Asúnsolo, who died in the defense of the Zapatista cause when María was a child.

María Asúnsolo, with her startling beauty, exceptional intelligence, and warm/open nature, became a muse, friend, protector, and confidant of painters ... who painted her again and again. This portrait of María descending a staircase is a spectacular and insinuating work. Signed and dated 1935, with the dedication "A mi adorada e inolvidable María Asúnsolo" (To my adored and unforgettable María Asúnsolo). There is also a cryptic message (C.T.M.E.Y.M.C.) which could mean ""Con todo mi estimación y mi cariño" or "With all my esteem and my affection" to express Siqueiros's deep passion for Asúnsolo. The theatrical presentation of the model, in her thin silk dress, likely refers to one of the clichés of Mexican cinema: la entrada a la fiesta making a grand entrance to a party. The works remained in the collection of Asúnsolo until 1988, when it was acquired by the National Institute of Fine Arts and became part of the founding heritage of the Museo Nacional de Arte (National Museum of Art) in Mexico City, along with other portraits of Asúnsolo made by Jesús Guerrero Galván, Juan Soriano, Federico Cantú and Diego Rivera among others. In the mid 1930's when this painting was completed, María had turned her apartment on Reforms Avenue into the María Asúnsolo Art Gallery (GAMA), where she exhibited prestigious artists including the painter of this portrait: David Alfaro Siqueiros. Long after her divorce from German husband Auguste Diener and love affair with Siqueiros, she remained an active patron of the arts until the 1980s when she donated all her paintings to the museum and moved to spend her remaining years in Cuernavaca. María often refused to tell her age and forged birth certificates to affirm her Mexican-ness; however, she was actually born in the United States, the daughter of a French-Canadian mother, Marie Mortand, and a Mexican father, Mauel Dolores Asúnsolo, who died in the defense of the Zapatista cause when María was a child.

Retrato de María Asúnsolo bajando la escalera by David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican) - Duco on plywood / 1935 - Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico City, Mexico) #womeninart #art #artwork #MexicanArt #womensart #DavidAlfaroSiqueiros #DucoPainting #Siqueiros #portraitofawoman #MuseoNacionaldeArte #pintura

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