1933
Muralist at Work (Diego Rivera)
Lucienne BlochAmerican (born Switzerland), 1909 - 1999
Lucienne Bloch worked as Diego Rivera's assistant on various mural projects and she accompanied him and Frida Kahlo to Detroit in 1932. In Muralist at Work, made the next year in New York, Bloch has imagined Rivera painting a map of Central and North America, with his unseen hand positioned over Detroit. (No such mural is known to exist.) In the upper left, Bloch tucked in a small portrait of Kahlo, who is identifiable by her Mexican blouse and beads and her distinctive hairstyle and eyebrows.
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