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AdmittedDiego Rivera · c.1927–32
This one's called Tobacco – Cotton. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower) — a drawing by Rivera, c.nineteen twenty-seven to nineteen thirty-two. It's watercolor and pencil on paper, about 42 by 32 centimeters. Somewhere in there: the fruit, and the carved figure.
Medium Watercolor and pencil on paper · Dimensions 16 5/8 x 12 1/2" (42.2 x 31.8 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: The Man. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), American Girl. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)
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)
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