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

Diego Rivera · 1927

Here we have The Siren. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower) — a drawing by Rivera, nineteen twenty-seven. The piece is watercolor and pencil on paper, about 35 by 24 centimeters. You can pick out the guitar.

Medium Watercolor and pencil on paper · Dimensions 13 7/8 x 9 1/2" (35.2 x 24.1 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Fulang-Chang and I, Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: L’Homme à la guitare (The Man with a Guitar)

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