Tribute to Nahui Olin featuring Gordon Walters and Callas Lilies (Photograph by Edward Weston, 1923-1924) Painting

Divas is a series inspired on four woman that have had my attention for number of years now. This paining is of Nahui Olin. Nahui Olin, b.1893 d.1978, (aged 84), born in Mexico. Model, poet, painter actress. Born Carmen Mondragon lived in Paris were she met Picasso, Matisse and poet Jean Cocteau. Her beauty was described as mesmerising and erotic, and apparently first woman to wear a miniskirt in Mexican catholic scene. She was posing for painter Diego Rivera, and photographers Tina Modotti and Edward Weston. Her lover Gerald Murillo “Dr. Atl” named her Nahui Olin, an Aztec symbol for earthquake. Nahui is considered a woman who both embraced and shaped the 1920’s and 1930’s in Mexico through her activism and creativity. In 2019 the Spanish novelist Juan Bonilla published "Totalidad sexual del Cosmos", inspired on her life. In 2020, this novel won the National Prize for Literature in Spain. Source: