About the Artwork
Figure Representing the Black Race (Second Version)
1932
Diego M. Rivera
1886 - 1957
Mexican
Unknown
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)
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Gift of the artist
33.38
ARS represents the Bank of Mexico on Rivera and Kahlo’s works of art with a few exceptions. Our murals are one of the exceptions and they are in public domain when published in the United States.
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Provenance
the artist, Diego Rivera
1933-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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).
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ARS represents the Bank of Mexico on Rivera and Kahlo’s works of art with a few exceptions. Our murals are one of the exceptions and they are in public domain when published in the United States.
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.
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