Diego Rivera
El Sueño, La noche de los pobres (Sleep, The Night of the Poor)

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Artist Diego Rivera Mexican, 1886–1957

PrinterPrinted by George C. MillerAmerican, 1894–1965

PublisherPublished by Weyhe Galleryfounded 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)

Credit LineBequest of Leopold L. Meyer in memory of Esther Meyer Cohen

Object number83.222

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Prints and Drawings

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PRINTS

DescriptionDiego Rivera promoted post-revolutionary
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: signed in graphite

Watermark: Recto: Watermark, top left: FRANCE

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