Live Auction 2173Latin American Sale
Christie’s roundel
Lot 94

Diego Rivera (Mexican 1886-1957)

Untitled (Illustration for Mexican Folkways)

Closed29 May 2009

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USD 21,250

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Diego Rivera (Mexican 1886-1957)
Untitled (Illustration for Mexican Folkways)
signed 'Diego Rivera' (lower left)
graphite on paper
12 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (31.4 x 23.8 cm.)
Executed in 1927.

Acquired from the artist (1927).
By descent.
Private collection, South Africa.

Specialist note

This work is the original drawing for an illustration that appeared in Mexican Folkways, Vol. 3, no. 1, February-March 1927.