"This story is not about me, but about the painting,"
"the Mexican Mona Lisa"
"He's sort of in la-la-land when he paints this,"
An ethereal 1929 Diego Rivera portrait, 'Tehuantepec Costume,' of Aurea Procel hangs in a two-story Cow Hollow home above a bed owned by an anonymous 90-year-old trustee. The trustee calls the portrait "the Mexican Mona Lisa" and researched Procel and original owner Alfred Honigbaum, who bought the painting directly from Rivera in 1929. Rivera inscribed the canvas Para Aurea Procel. Procel was a pioneering Mexican doctor and feminist, identified by the Tehuana huipil. Rivera painted a second, larger 1929 portrait of Procel. The work is expected to travel to a Houston exhibition, but ownership fate could change if the trustee dies before transfer.
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