Mesa and Cacti, 1930

  • Diego M. Rivera, Mexican, 1886 - 1957

Watercolor over graphite or chalk on cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 inches (31.8 × 48.3 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

31.24

Signed, in black ink, lower right: Diego Rivera. 30

Watermark: Ingres Arches (FRANCE)

Inscribed, in pencil, upper right, verso: [possible illegible inscription]

the artist, Diego Rivera

1931-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Arts and Crafts in Detroit. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, no. 236, p. 183 (ill.). Bulletin of the DIA 12, no. 6, (1931): pp. 74-76 (ill.). Diego Rivera. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1930, no. 35 (ill.). Downs, Linda, and Ellen Sharp. Diego Rivera: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1986, no. 181 (fig. 140).

Diego M. Rivera, Mesa and Cacti, 1930, watercolor over graphite or chalk on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 31.24.