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AdmittedDiego Rivera · c.1927–32
You're looking at Two Standing Mexican Figures (Fruit Vendors from Tehuantepec). Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower) — a drawing by Rivera, c.nineteen twenty-seven to nineteen thirty-two. The piece is watercolor and pencil on paper, about 42 by 31 centimeters.
Medium Watercolor and pencil on paper · Dimensions 16 3/8 x 12 3/8" (41.6 x 31.4 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: My Grandparents, My Parents, and I, Ventilator Pipe. Set 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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