Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1872-1946)

Dolores del Rio, Beverly Hills
Private Collection, Los Angeles

There is significant craquelure throughout the work and buckling to the canvas especially along the left and right sides at the widest part of the work. There is also lifting and paint loss in a few areas especially under the lower rose on the far left. Under ultraviolet light there is an opaque varnish and appears to be scattered areas of inpainting but it is difficult to tell due to the varnish.
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Dolores del Rio (1905-1983) was the first Mexican film star to achieve international fame. Born into an aristocratic family in Durango, she moved to Mexico City after the Mexican Revolution in 1916 where she became a socialite. In 1921 she married Jaime del Rio, a wealthy Mexican, with whom she moved to Hollywood. There she had a meteoric rise as a film actress during the 1920s, with roles in such movies as What Price Glory? (1926) directed by Raoul Walsh and Flying Down to Rio (1933) directed by Thornton Freeland. Film roles like these forever cast the starlet as the prototypical Mexican beauty to foreign audiences. After a number of films, she married Cedric Gibbons, the well-known art director, MGM production designer, and creator of the famous Oscar statuette. In 1942 she returned to Mexico where she made her first Spanish-language movies. Her career in Mexico included film, theater and television, with such movies as Maria Candelaria (1944), Las Abandonadas (1945) and Bumgambilia (1945).