Diego Rivera

Banana. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

1927

Watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil on paper

On view MoMA, Floor 3, 3 North The Philip Johnson Galleries
Medium Watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
Dimensions 14 1/2 x 10 1/4" (36.8 x 26 cm)
Credit Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Object number 505.1941.10
Department Drawings and Prints

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Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Mexican, 1886–1957 92 works online

At the height of his career, Diego Rivera was an international art celebrity. Trained at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, he spent more than a decade in Europe, becoming a leading figure in Paris’s vibrant international community of avant-garde artists.

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