The Man. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

Diego Rivera · 1927

This is The Man. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower) — a drawing by Rivera, nineteen twenty-seven. Watercolour, where the paper does the lightening — there is no white paint, only the sheet showing through. You can pick out the dancing.

Medium Ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper · Dimensions 20 7/8 x 29 3/8" (53 x 74.6 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Frida Rivera, Tobacco – Cotton. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Balletto, Dance (I), Big Cry, 14 Juillet (Bastille Day) Paris, Ile Saint-Louis, Tongues (Holy Rollers), Moulin Rouge

More by Diego Rivera here: Agrarian Leader Zapata, Man at the Crossroads, Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita, Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Study for backdrop for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Stock Market. Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)