Young Man in a Gray Sweater (Jacques Lipchitz)

Diego Rivera · Paris 1914

This is Young Man in a Gray Sweater, painted by Diego Rivera in Paris in nineteen fourteen. The sitter is the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, a close friend during Rivera's Paris years, whose own Cubist sculpture stands in this same gallery.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 25 5/8 x 21 5/8" (65.1 x 54.9 cm) · Credit Gift of T. Catesby Jones

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Speeding Automobile, Synchromy in Blue

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, Self-Portrait with a Cigarette, Diego Rivera, The Lovers, Woman's Head, Boy in a Red Vest

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)