Guadalupe Marín

Guadalupe "Lupe" Marín (October 16, 1895 – September 16, 1983), born María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, was a Mexican model and novelist.

Guadalupe Marín
Portrait of Guadalupe Marín de Rivera by Edward Weston, 1924
Born
María Guadalupe Marín Preciado

(1895-10-16)October 16, 1895
Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico
DiedSeptember 16, 1983(1983-09-16) (aged 87)
Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality Mexico
Other namesLupe Marín
OccupationModel
Novelist
Spouse(s)
Children3, including Ruth
Cover of Marín's tell-all book La Única (1938)

Biography

Marín was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico.[1] When aged eight, Marín moved with her family to Guadalajara. In 1922, she became the second wife of muralist Diego Rivera. She was the mother of Rivera's two youngest daughters, Ruth and Guadalupe Rivera-Marín.[2][3] Marín was married to Rivera for six years, ending in 1928.[4]

She was married to the poet Jorge Cuesta on November 9, 1928; they divorced on April 13, 1933.[5][6] She had one son from her second marriage, Lucio Antonio Cuesta-Marín, born in 1930.[6]

Marín was the subject of portrait paintings by Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Juan Soriano. She is featured in the Rivera mural Creation, for which she modeled as Strength, Song, and Woman, and modeled nude as Earth for Rivera's Chapingo chapel mural while several months pregnant. She also modeled for photographer Edward Weston. Of the 1924 portrait, Weston wrote "I am finishing the portrait of Lupe. It is a heroic head, the best I have done in Mexico." [7]

In 1938, Marín's semi-autobiographical novel La Única (The Unique Woman) was published.[8] Her book La Única was banned in Mexico for many years owing to its erotic nature.[1] In 2003, the novel and Marín were cited by author Salvador A. Oropesa in his book The Contemporáneos Group as being a feminist component of a counterculture writers' movement in post-revolutionary Mexico. She also wrote Un día patrio (A Patriotic Day) in 1941, in which she expressed political ideas.[1]

Legacy and death

Marín died in Mexico City on September 16, 1983 at the age of 87.

A novel in Spanish about Marín and Rivera's time together, Dos Veces única by Elena Poniatowska, was published in 2016.[5][9]

She was portrayed by Valeria Golino in the 2002 film Frida.[10]

References
  1. "Guadalupe Marin, controvertida musa, novelista y primera esposa de Diego Rivera". MXCity (in Spanish). 2016-08-29. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  2. Kettenmann, Andrea (2003). Rivera, p. 24. TASCHEN GmbH.
  3. Jinich, Pati (2014). "Diego Rivera's daughter on her father's favorite foods — and Frida Kahlo's parties". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  4. Russell, Ron (2003-12-17). "Secret Rivera". SF Weekly. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  5. Ahrens, Jan Martínez (2015-10-02). "Lupe, Frida y Diego: los años locos". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  6. "Dos veces Cuesta | Confabulario | Suplemento cultural" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  7. Guadalupe de Rivera, Mexico. 1924, printed later
  8. Oropesa, Salvador A. (2003). The Contemporáneos Group: Rewriting Mexico in the Thirties and Forties, p. 100. University of Texas Press.
  9. Hevia, Elena (2016-06-28). "Elena Poniatowska: "Lupe Marín jamás se doblegó a sus maridos"". elperiodico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  10. Wilmington, Michael (2002-11-01). "'Frida'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-01-23.


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