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Diego Rivera with Pet Spider Monkey at his San Angel studio by Emmy Lou Packard

Diego Rivera with Pet Spider Monkey at his San Angel studio by Emmy Lou Packard

Diego Rivera with Pet Spider Monkey at his San Angel studio

Emmy Lou Packard

Title

Diego Rivera with Pet Spider Monkey at his San Angel studio

 
Artist

Emmy Lou Packard

  1914 - 1998 (biography)
Year
1941  
Technique
gelatin silver print - photograph 
Image Size
10 3/8 x 9 1/2" image and photopaper size 
Signature
signed in ink on verso; artist's studio stamp on verso 
Edition Size
proof, not editioned 
Annotations
inscribed in ink on verso: "#12 for Mildred Consadine 1984 / copyright / Diego Rivera in San Angel studio yard, 1941 with pet spider monkey who adored him (but bit everyone else)! - Emmy Lou Packard 1984" 
Reference
Archives of American Art digtial I.D. 5948 
Paper
semigloss photopaper mounted to support sheet 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
23178 
Price
SOLD
Description

Emmy Lou Packard inscribed this photograph in ink on the verso: "#12 for Mildred Consadine 1984 / copyright / Diego Rivera in San Angel studio yard, 1941 with pet spider monkey who adored him (but bit everyone else)! - Emmy Lou Packard July 1984."

Diego Rivera was captured by Emmy Lou Packard playing with his pet spider monkey which he kept at their studio in San Angel. Frida Kahlo surrounded herself with pets, including this spider monkey named 'Fulang Chang, given to her as a gift by Rivera and used in one of her self portraits.

Emmy Lou gave this photograph to Mildred Consadine in 1984 as a gift with a note, her studio stamp and a copyright symbol and "all rights reserved."