Lot 222: ANNETTE NANCARROW, "Torero Arlequin," oil on

ANNETTE NANCARROW, "Torero Arlequin," oil on canvas, 17 3/4 x 21 5/8 in. (45 x 55 cm.), signed upper right 'Annette Nancarrow / Mexico'. EXHIBITED: Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional, Mexico City. Annette Nancarrow was very accomplished artist who worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera. She had originally met Diego Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros while training as an art teacher at Teachers' College in Columbia University in New York City, and was invited by them to help paint murals in Mexico. She was a constant fixture in the Mexican art circle that included notaries such as Rivera, Kahlo, Siqueiros, Carrington, and Tamayo. She also posed as a model for Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros, and in 1947 married the musical composer Conlon Nancarrow. Nancarrow's social circle also included Anais Nin, with whom she developed a close friendship after meeting in Mexico.