Diego Rivera Meets Henry Moore
Diego Rivera Meets Henry Moore pairs an international loan with a work from the Gallery’s collection to tell new stories about art. This installation, the first in a series, features Mexican painter Diego Rivera’s famous Nude with Calla Lilies (1940), generously lent from a private collection. It joins our Reclining Woman (1930) by Henry Moore, then the leading avant-garde sculptor in Britain. 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. Photographs and drawings from the Gallery’s collection enrich this small, room-sized exhibition, introducing the principal figures in the story – the two artists and Rivera’s model and collaborator, Nieves Orozco.
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European and American Galleries C217
Artworks
Diego Rivera, Nude with Calla Lilies, 1944. Oil on hardboard, 157 × 124 cm. Private Collection. © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, CDMX / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / CARCC Ottawa 2025. Photo: Courtesy of SF MOMA
Diego Rivera, Nude with Calla Lilies, 1944. Oil on hardboard, 157 × 124 cm. Private Collection. © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, CDMX / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / CARCC Ottawa 2025. Photo: Courtesy of SF MOMA
Henry Moore, Reclining Woman, 1930. Hornton limestone, 59.7 × 92.7 × 41.3 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1956. © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025 / CARCC Ottawa 2025 / www.henry-moore.org. Photo: NGC
Henry Moore, Reclining Woman, 1930. Hornton limestone, 59.7 × 92.7 × 41.3 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1956. © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025 / CARCC Ottawa 2025 / www.henry-moore.org. Photo: NGC
Yousuf Karsh, Henry Moore (1898–1986), 7 May 1949, printed 1987. Gelatin silver print, 49.9 × 39.8 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Gift of the artist, Ottawa, 1989. © Estate of Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh, Henry Moore (1898–1986), 7 May 1949, printed 1987. Gelatin silver print, 49.9 × 39.8 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Gift of the artist, Ottawa, 1989. © Estate of Yousuf Karsh
Fred Ross, Diego Rivera Working on the Murals at the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, 1950. Black wax crayon on cream wove paper, 42.7 × 35.2 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1995. © Estate of Fred Ross
Fred Ross, Diego Rivera Working on the Murals at the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, 1950. Black wax crayon on cream wove paper, 42.7 × 35.2 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1995. © Estate of Fred Ross
Gisèle Freund, The English Sculptor Henry Moore, 1959. Gelatin silver print, 30.5 × 40.5 cm. Private Collection. © Estate Gisèle Freund/IMEC Images
Gisèle Freund, The English Sculptor Henry Moore, 1959. Gelatin silver print, 30.5 × 40.5 cm. Private Collection. © Estate Gisèle Freund/IMEC Images
Fred Ross, Diego Rivera Working on the Murals at the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, 1950. Black wax crayon on cream wove paper, 42.7 × 35.2 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1995. © Estate of Fred Ross
Fred Ross, Diego Rivera Working on the Murals at the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, 1950. Black wax crayon on cream wove paper, 42.7 × 35.2 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1995. © Estate of Fred Ross