Guadalupe Marín | |
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Born | María Guadalupe Marín Preciado October 16, 1895
Ciudad Guzmán,
Jalisco, Mexico |
Died | September 16, 1983
Mexico City, Mexico | (aged 87)
Nationality | Mexican |
Other names | Lupe Marín |
Occupation(s) | Model, novelist |
Spouses | |
Children | 3, including Ruth Rivera Marín |
Guadalupe "Lupe" Marín (October 16, 1895 – September 16, 1983), born María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, was a Mexican model and novelist.
Marín was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico. [1] When aged eight, Marín moved with her family to Guadalajara. [2] 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. [3] [4] Marín was married to Rivera for six years, ending in 1928. [5]
She was married to the poet Jorge Cuesta on November 9, 1928; they divorced on April 13, 1933. [6] [7] She had one son from her second marriage, Lucio Antonio Cuesta-Marín, born in 1930. [7]
Marín was the subject of portrait paintings by Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Juan Soriano. [8] [9] [10] She is featured in the Rivera mural Creation, for which she modeled as Strength, Song, and Woman,[ citation needed] and modeled nude as Earth for Rivera's Chapingo chapel mural while several months pregnant.[ citation needed] 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." [11]
In 1938, Marín's semi-autobiographical novel La Única (The Unique Woman) was published. [12] 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]
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. [6] [13]
She was portrayed by Valeria Golino in the 2002 film Frida. [14]