Diego Rivera meets Henry Moore

The National Gallery of Canada puts these two well known works on exhibition for a year to tell new stories about art.

Mexican painter Diego Rivera’s famous Nude with Calla Lilies (1944) is on loan from a private collector, while Reclining Woman (1930) by Henry Moore, then the leading avant garde sculptor in Britain, is from the National Gallery of Canada’s own holdings.

Both works take the female nude as their subject, but to strikingly different results. The two artists reveal new ways of seeing Modernism in a global context – shared obsessions and radically different ideas about what art was and should be – NGC

The exhibition, running through Feb. 28, 2027, include photos and drawings from the National Gallery’s collection to introduce the principal figures in the story – the two artists and Rivera’s model and collaborator, Nieves Orozco.

A bit about legendary art couple Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in this previous Art Junkie post, here.

National Gallery of Canada exhibition site, here.

Also see The Toronto Heritage of Sculptor Henry Moore, here.