22 Sep
2007
22 Sep
'07
4:21 p.m.
Many thanks Gareth! I looked on the Internet before posting here buy obviously missed the link you gave. Jim On 9/22/07, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On Saturday 22 September 2007, James Buddenhagen wrote:
In 1918 (or 1919?) the acclaimed Mexican artist Diego Rivera painted a painting called "El Matemático" (the mathematician). ... I am trying the find out who is depicted in that painting, which, by the way, was done in Paris.
According to http://www.vf.utwente.nl/~jagersaa/D_R.html it was one René Paresce, who got a PhD in physics, spent some time as a journalist and ended up as a painter.
-- g