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Los Frutos del Trabajo (The Fruits of Labor)


Diego Rivera, Los Frutos del Trabajo (The Fruits of Labor), 1932, lithograph on cream wove paper, Gift of Lucienne Bloch and Stephen Dimitroff, © artist or other rights holder, 83.53.8

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Title

Los Frutos del Trabajo (The Fruits of Labor)

Related Titles

original language: Los Frutos del Trabajo

translated: The Fruits of Labor

Artist

Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957)

Related People

printer: George Miller (American, active early 20th century)

publisher: The Weyhe Gallery (American, established 1919)

Date

1932

Medium

lithograph on cream wove paper

Edition

artist's proof; edition of 100

Dimensions (H x W x D)

image: 16 7/16 in x 11 13/16 in; sheet: 22 1/2 in x 15 15/16 in

Inscriptions & Markings

watermark: FRABCE, lower right

inscription: Epreuvre d'artiste - à mon chere ami Estephan Dimitroff. / Diego Rivera, graphite, lower left

maker's mark; date: DR 32, printed, lower middle on stone

Collection Area

Graphic Arts

Category

Prints

Object Type

planographic print

Culture

Mexican

Credit Line

Gift of Lucienne Bloch and Stephen Dimitroff

Accession Number

83.53.8

Copyright

© artist or other rights holder

Terms

artists' proofs

fruit

lithography

planographic printing

planographic prints

wove paper

Description

Diego Rivera is widely regarded as the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century. His large-scale, public murals expressed his Marxist politics—a strong commitment to workers' rights and an abiding interest in the history of human progress and technology. His work drew widespread acclaim, if also sometimes controversy, and helped establish Rivera as an international celebrity in the 1930s and '40s. Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1886 and began painting at an early age. He moved to Paris by the time he was twenty-one where he learned to integrate Cubism with traditional, Mexican symbolism. When he returned to Mexico in 1922, the country was just emerging from the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). The conflict had lasted ten years, caused the death of over a million people, and resulted in the overthrow of Mexico's ruling elite. Rivera collaborated with artists, writers, and officials in the new socialist government to promote post-Revolutionary Mexican culture and national identity.

History
Exhibitions

1989 Grafica Popular: 20th Century Mexican Prints Portland Art Museum

2002 Gráfica de Mexico Portland Art Museum

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