Details
Diego Rivera (Mexican 1886-1957)
Pepenadora
signed and dated 'DIEGO RIVERA 35' (upper right)
tempera on masonite
24½ x 19 in. (62.2 x 48 cm.)
Painted in 1935.
Provenance
Galería Central de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.
Earlham College collection, Richmond, Virginia, gift of Elmer Hadley.
Private collection, Mexico City.
Literature
B. Wolfe, Portrait of Mexico, Covici Freide, New York, 1937, pl. 97 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Diego Rivera, Cincuenta Años de su Labor Artística, Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1951, no. 526 (illustrated in color).
Diego Rivera: Pintura de Caballete y Dibujos, I, Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana, Mexico, 1979, p. 141, no. 127 (illustrated).
Diego Rivera: Catálogo General de Obra de Caballete, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1989, p. 161, no. 1223 (illustrated).
Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution, Ohio Arts Council, Landucci Editores, Mexico City, 1999, p. 343 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Diego Rivera, Cincuenta Años de su Labor Artística, 1951.
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution, February - May 1999. This exhibition later traveled to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May - August 1999; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, September - November 1999; Mexico City, INBA, Museo de Arte Moderno, December 1999 - March 2000.
Sale room notice
Please note that the correct provenance is:
Earlham College collection, Richmond, Virginia, gift of Edna and Chalmer Hadley.
Also, please note that this work has additional provenance:
Christie's, New York, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture (Part 1), 16 November 1994, lot 13 (illustrated in color).
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