Ventilator Pipe. Set design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

Diego Rivera · 1932

This is Ventilator Pipe. Set design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower) — a drawing by Rivera, nineteen thirty-two. The piece is watercolor and pencil on paper, about 45 by 29 centimeters.

Medium Watercolor and pencil on paper · Dimensions 17 5/8 x 11 1/4" (44.8 x 28.6 cm) · Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Two Standing Mexican Figures (Fruit Vendors from Tehuantepec). Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Frida Kahlo

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Nurse Supervisor, Untitled, Retrospective Bust of a Woman, A Happy New Year, The Machine-Gunneress in a State of Grace, Caryatid

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)