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Artist or Maker: Diego Rivera (Mexican 1886-1957)
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Provenance: Galería Central de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.
Earlham College collection, Richmond, Virginia, gift of Elmer Hadley.
Private collection, Mexico City.
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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.
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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).
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Notes: This work is part of the National Heritage of Mexico and cannot be removed from that country. Accordingly, it is offered for sale in New York from the catalogue and will not be available in New York. Delivery of the work will be made in Mexico in compliance with local requirements. Prospective buyers may contact Christie's Representatives in Mexico for an appointment to view the work.
