Guadalupe "Lupe" Marín (October 16, 1895 – September 16, 1983), born María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, was a Mexican model and novelist.

Biography

Marín was born in

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, Jalisco,

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. When aged eight, Marín moved with her family to Guadalajara. In 1922, she became the second wife of muralist

Diego Rivera Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...

. She was the mother of Rivera's two youngest daughters,

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and Guadalupe Rivera-Marín. Marín was married to Rivera for six years, ending in 1928. She was married to the poet

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on November 9, 1928; they divorced on April 13, 1933. She had one son from her second marriage, Lucio Antonio Cuesta-Marín, born in 1930. Marín was the subject of portrait paintings by Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Juan Soriano. She is featured in the Rivera mural ''Creation'', for which she modeled as Strength, Song, and Woman, and modeled nude as

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for Rivera's Chapingo chapel mural while several months pregnant. She also modeled for photographer

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. 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." In 1938, Marín's

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'' La Única'' (The Unique Woman) was published. Her book ''La Única'' was banned in Mexico for many years owing to its erotic nature. 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

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writers' movement in post-revolutionary Mexico. She also wrote ''Un día patrio'' (A Patriotic Day) in 1941, in which she expressed political ideas.

Legacy and death

Marín died in

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on September 16, 1983 at the age of 87. A novel in Spanish about Marín and Rivera's time together, ''Dos Veces única'' by

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, was published in 2016. She was portrayed by

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in the 2002 film ''

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''.

References

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