Posted by: Raul O'Farrill in MyBlog on Sep 6, 2009
A mansion on the market in Mexico's legendary beach resort of Acapulco has an unusual selling point -- six murals by one of the country's most renowed artists, Diego Rivera.
Three of the murals are publicly unseen, late works by the world famous Mexican artist who died more than 50 years ago made and his name painting massive murals on buildings from Mexico City to New York.
The mansion was built on a cliff in Acapulco's heydey in the middle of the last century, and is on the market for a minimum of six million dollars.
"There are (three) unknown murals inside. Only the ones that can be seen from the street are known," Carlos Phillips, son of the mansion's original owner, Dolores Olmedo, told AFP.
Olmedo, a sophisticated art collecter and friend of Rivera and his famous artist wife Frida Kahlo, had the mansion built in 1940.
Rivera created the murals between 1955 and 1957 -- the year he died.
One mural of naturally-colored stones depicting a journey by leftist Rivera to the former Soviet Union decorates the artist's former studio alongside the house, Phillips said.
Another -- on the outside of the house which is called "Exekatlkalli" or "House of the Winds" in the indigenous Nahuatl language -- depicts an Aztec serpent god in a long stone mosaic.
Olmedo died in 2002 and passed the property, which includes a tropical garden and a swimming pool overlooking the Pacific, to her grandchildren who now live in the United States and wish to sell it.
Rivera's work cannot leave the country because it is considered to be part of Mexico's cultural heritage, but private individuals can buy the property, Phillips said.
The estate includes Rivera's three-storey artist studio with murals on the ceilings and a two-storey house with five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
For now, Rivera fans remain in suspense over the unseen works.
The property is not open to the public so that interested parties can decide what to do with it, Phillips said.
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