About the Artwork
The Upperdogs in Mexico City
between 1886 and 1957
Diego M. Rivera
1886 - 1957
Mexican
Unknown
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)
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Gift of the Leah Brenner Trust
2004.87
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Markings
Signed, in black ink, upper left: Diego Rivera.
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.
Watermark: JCA France (in cursive script) INGRES
Provenance
Leah Brenner (San Antonio, Texas, USA)
2004-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.
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