The Upperdogs in Mexico City, between 1886 and 1957

  • Diego M. Rivera, Mexican, 1886 - 1957

Brush and black ink, watercolor, gouache, and collage over traces of graphite pencil on dark buff laid paper attached to another sheet of dark buff paper

  • Sheet: 24 inches × 19 1/8 inches (61 × 48.6 cm) Mount: 31 3/8 × 24 7/8 inches (79.7 × 63.2 cm) Mat: 32 × 26 inches (81.3 × 66 cm)

Gift of the Leah Brenner Trust

2004.87

Signed, in black ink, upper left: Diego Rivera.

Watermark: JCA France (in cursive script) INGRES

Inscribed, in green watercolor, highlighted in red watercolor, as part of the image running diagonally, from upper left to lower right: the upper dogs in Mexico City. Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower left: THIS PAPER HAS BEEN | DEACIDIFIED DURING CONSERVATION | OF COLLAGE. 22 JUNE '80 J.G.

Leah Brenner (San Antonio, Texas, USA)

2004-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Diego M. Rivera, The Upperdogs in Mexico City, between 1886 and 1957, brush and black ink, watercolor, gouache, and collage over traces of graphite pencil on dark buff laid paper attached to another sheet of dark buff paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Leah Brenner Trust, 2004.87.