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11 Facts About Lucienne Bloch

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Lucienne Bloch was best known for her murals and for her association with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs of Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads, painted in 1933 and destroyed in January 1934 at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

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Lucienne Bloch attended the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris at 14, apprenticing with sculptor Antoine Bourdelle and painter Andre Lhote.

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In 1931, Lucienne Bloch had met and began her apprenticeship with Diego Rivera on his frescoes in New York and Detroit.

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Lucienne Bloch formed a close friendship with Rivera's wife Frida Kahlo, and they became each other's companion and confidant.

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Lucienne Bloch was with Kahlo in Detroit when Kahlo had her miscarriage.

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Lucienne Bloch took the only existing photographs of Rivera's destroyed mural, Man at the Crossroads, in Rockefeller Center Plaza in New York City.

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Lucienne Bloch created five portfolios of photographs of Rivera and Kahlo, including photos of Kahlo's paintings in progress, and the artists in New York City, Detroit, and Mexico.

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Lucienne Bloch illustrated numerous children's books, of which the Library of Congress lists:.

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In 1956 Lucienne Bloch's prints were included in the exhibition "Women Printmakers" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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In 1964 Lucienne Bloch was interviewed for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project now in the Smithsonian Institution.

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Lucienne Bloch's work is in the National Gallery of Art and The New York Public Library.