The architect considered that a Diego Rivera's picture It would be the perfect element to decorate the actress's room and was not wrong since she always maintained one of the copies in this area of her house.
Silvia Pinal at her home in El Pedregal on CDMX with Diego Rivera's portrait dressPhoto: Mediateca Inah
When did Diego Rivera painted Silvia Pinal?
He Table was made during 1956 in several sessions in which Silvia Pinal and Diego Rivera They talked a little or at least so the actress told her autobiography This is me.
In this Pinal sessions he met such important figures of literature such as Elena Poniatowska, Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz who used to visit the artist in the study in which the portrait was painted that, initially, he would have shown the bare actress proposal to which he refused. Finally in this portrait we can see it with an elegant Black Designer Dress Tao Itzé.
In an interview for Televisa, the actress joked by saying that the painting «won it», referring to how heavy the sessions were in which she had to stay motionless so that Rivera could do her job.
The portrait was finished on November 3, 1956 When the actress received it without having to pay even a penny for him since Diego Rivera gave it to him.
How much is the painting of Diego Rivera by Silvia Pinal?
He Table has an estimated value of 58 million pesosapproximately 3 million dollars, as expected, the original work is told protected for conservation.
The actress sent to make a couple of replicas and one of these is the one on Televisa and, the other, in the Silvia Pinal Theaters: First in which he was in the Roma neighborhood and then he was transferred, to the new Silvia Pinal Theater in the Juárez neighborhood, in CDMX.
Why is it impossible to sell the Silvia Pinal picture?
He Table cannot be sold because it is owned by your three children: Silvia Pasquel, Alejandra Guzmán and Luis Enrique Guzmán And it is stipulated that the portrait cannot be sold, auctioned or donated without the agreement of the three heirs.
Other painters who portrayed Silvia Pinal
Diego Rivera He was not the only artist who portrayed the beauty of the last diva of Mexican cinema. In his work, the Ecuadorian Oswaldo Guayasamín also captured the face of the actress In an oil piece.