© Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museum Trust, Mexico, D.F./ Artists Rights Society, New York
Artist
Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957)Mexican, 1886–1957
PrinterPrinted by
George C. Miller(American, 1894–1965)American, 1894–1965
PublisherPublished by
Weyhe Gallery(founded 1919)founded 1919
CultureMexican
Titles
- El Sueño, La noche de los pobres (Sleep, The Night of the Poor)
Date1932
MediumLithograph on wove paper, edition 93/100
DimensionsImage: 16 3/8 × 11 7/8 in. (41.6 × 30.2 cm)
Sheet: 20 11/16 × 15 1/8 in. (52.5 × 38.4 cm)
Sheet: 20 11/16 × 15 1/8 in. (52.5 × 38.4 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Leopold L. Meyer in memory of Esther Meyer Cohen
Object number83.222
Non exposé
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Department
Prints and DrawingsObject Type
Mexican culture and national identity through
his murals, which expressed a strong commitment to social equality and workers’ rights.
At the same time, Rivera utilized the print
medium to spread his imagery to a larger
audience. He created this lithograph while
visiting New York, re-creating a detail of his
1928 mural cycle in Mexico City’s Ministry of
Education. This tender depiction of campesinos
nestled together for warmth decries the hard
lot of agricultural laborers. Their limp bodies
and fatigued countenances reflect the sorrow
and inequalities faced by the poor and their
deprivation of basic human comforts.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Graphic Art from Mexico", December 17, 1995 through February 25, 1996, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Recto: numbered, signed and date in graphite, [below matrix], bottom left: No 93 Diego Rivera 1932 [cursive]
Inscription: Recto: Initialed and dated in printed ink, stone, bottom right: D. 32
Inscription: Recto: Initialed and dated in printed ink, stone, bottom right: D. 32
Inscription: Recto: signed in graphite
Watermark: Recto: Watermark, top left: FRANCE
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