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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.436
People
Diego Rivera, Mexican (Guanajuato, Mexico 1886 - 1957 Mexico City)
Title
Study of a Sleeping Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1921
Culture
Mexican
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296541

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
62.7 x 46.9 cm (24 11/16 x 18 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. in charcoal: Rivera

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright
© Diego Rivera Foundation / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.436
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 176
  • Diego Rivera: Art & Revolution, exh. cat., Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico City, Mexico, 1999), no. 55, repr. p. 193 (color)
  • Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution: A Guide for Families, brochure, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1999), repr. (unpaginated)
  • Teel Sale and Claudia Betti, Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, Thomson Wadsworth (Belmont, CA, 2008), pp. 85-86, fig. 3.31

Exhibition History

  • Diego Rivera: A Retrospective, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 02/10/1986 - 04/27/1986; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 06/09/1986 - 08/17/1986; Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, 09/19/1986 - 01/04/1987; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 02/17/1987 - 06/07/1987
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
  • Diego Rivera: Art & Revolution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 05/30/1999 - 08/16/1999; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 09/19/1999 - 11/28/1999

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