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
- Related People
printer: George Miller (American, active early 20th century)
- 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
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.
- Exhibitions
1989 Grafica Popular: 20th Century Mexican Prints Portland Art Museum
2002 Gráfica de Mexico Portland Art Museum