Rudolph Nureyev Portrait

Rudolph Nureyev
2019
graphite, ink, and gouache on paper
7 x 10 inches plus frame
 
What migrant's family was too poor to afford a musical instrument for him to learn how to play, so he learned to use his own body as a vehicle for artistic expression?

RUDOLPH NUREYEV
USSR - Paris - London - New York

One of a series of 50 illustrations portraying migrants who changed the world for the book for young readers entitled Vidas sin fronteras: 51 historias para derribar los muros by Yaiza Santos and Annuska Angulo (Alfaguara, 2019).