© Estate of Rafael Coronel
Currently not on view
Profile,
1980s
Rafael Coronel, Mexican, 1932–2019
2001-62
A member of an esteemed artistic family and the son-in-law of the painter Diego Rivera, Coronel was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, where the museum bearing his name is located today. He is a member of the Generación de la Ruptura, or Breakaway Generation, a group of Mexican artists who, following World War II, rejected the nationalist focus of the large-scale mural painters who preceded them in favor of work that combines visual references to the history of art with a focus on everyday life in Mexico. In this melancholic portrait, Coronel employs expressive brushstrokes and somber tones of brown and red that recall the Spanish Baroque paintings of Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) to depict the profile of a man gazing out from the canvas.
Information
Title
Profile
Dates
1980s
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
69 x 79 cm (27 3/16 x 31 1/8 in.)
frame: 72.6 × 82.3 × 3.2 cm (28 9/16 × 32 3/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958
Object Number
2001-62
Place Made
North America, Mexico
Signatures
Signed in black paint, lower left: RAFAEL CORONEL
Culture
Type
Subject
B. Lewin Galleries, Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, CA (sold to Meginnity); David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958, Santa Monica, CA and New Smyrna Beach, FL, by 2000; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2001.
