1925, Diego Rivera, Flower Day -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: Diego Rivera created numerous murals, easel paintings, and watercolors representing Mexico's Indigenous population. Flower Day is his earliest and most accomplished depiction of a calla lily seller. The unusual perspective of the flowers, which are seen from above, and the block-like forms of the figures are stylistic devices derived from Rivera's earlier Cubist paintings. Flower Day is Rivera's first major painting to enter a public collection in the United States. It was acquired the year it was painted by the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art (LACMA's precursor) after winning first prize in the 1925 Pan-American Exhibition of Oil Paintings, which took place in San Francisco.
1925, Diego Rivera, Flower Day -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: Diego Rivera created numerous murals, easel paintings, and watercolors representing Mexico's Indigenous population. Flower Day is his earliest and most accomplished depiction of a calla lily seller. The unusual perspective of the flowers, which are seen from above, and the block-like forms of the figures are stylistic devices derived from Rivera's earlier Cubist paintings. Flower Day is Rivera's first major painting to enter a public collection in the United States. It was acquired the year it was painted by the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art (LACMA's precursor) after winning first prize in the 1925 Pan-American Exhibition of Oil Paintings, which took place in San Francisco.