Figure Representing the Black Race (Second Version), 1932

  • Diego M. Rivera, Mexican, 1886 - 1957

Charcoal and pigment on three separate sheets of off-white wove paper

  • Overall (irreg): 103 5/8 inches × 19 feet 1 3/16 inches (263.2 cm × 5 m 82.1 cm) Overall (Panel 1: feet (irreg)): 103 5/8 × 85 1/16 inches (263.2 × 216.1 cm) Overall (Panel 3: Head): 103 9/16 × 72 1/16 inches (263 × 183 cm) Overall (Panel 2: Hip and hand): 103 7/16 × 72 1/16 inches (262.7 × 183 cm)

Gift of the artist

33.38

the artist, Diego Rivera

1933-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Downs, Linda, and Ellen Sharp. Diego Rivera: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1986, cat. no. 207 (fig. 161). Sojka, Nancy. "What is the Graphic Arts Collection at the DIA?." Bulletin of the DIA 80, no. 1/2 (2006): p. 9, (fig. 8).

Diego M. Rivera, Figure Representing the Black Race (Second Version), 1932, charcoal and pigment on three separate sheets of off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the artist, 33.38.