Lot #858: DIEGO RIVERA - Campesino Cargando un Guajolote - Pencil drawing on paper

 

Artist: Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886 - 1957).
Title: "Campesino Cargando un Guajolote".
Medium: Pencil drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1944.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (302 x 213 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right. Cream wove paper. Very good condition. Comment(s): Our drawing is the study for the oil painting of the same name, currently in the collection of the State of Veracruz, Mexico. Rivera, the husband of Frida Kahlo, is arguably Mexico's most famous painter. His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28880-2-2400]