El Maestro — Mexican Cover, 1922 Canvas Print Color:Silver It gives a calm corner

It gives a calm corner something to hold onto without adding colour or clutter

or between two narrow windows in a study

This is a contemporary still life of lemons tumbling from a string market bag

the apples add small pops of red

Put it up and the room stops behaving like a showroom: the slate-blue ground deepens against painted plaster

El Maestro — Mexican Cover, 1922 Canvas Print Color:Silver It gives a calm cornerThink of it as Diego Rivera with less reverence and better instincts. A 1922 Mexican magazine cover, painted as a still life a cactus in a clay pot, stacked books, a folded periodical and a painted nude on the wall behind. Hang it up and a quiet room starts to feel curated rather than decorated. The dark background settles the wall and the deep blue magazine pulls the eye in without shouting. Works above a writing desk, sideboard or low bookcase in a