About the Artwork
Portrait of a Boy
1918
Diego M. Rivera
1886 - 1957
Mexican
Unknown
Graphite pencil on cream laid paper
Sheet: 18 1/2 × 12 1/8 inches (47 × 30.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
29.339
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Diego Rivera | V - 18
Inscribed, in pencil, upper center, verso: 5890 Inscribed, vertically, along right edge, verso: 9
Watermark, center of sheet: ARCHES
Provenance
E. Weyhe, Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Diego M. Rivera, Portrait of a Boy, 1918, graphite pencil on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.339.
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