DIEGO RIVERA (1886 1957) Estudio de un hombre

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DIEGO RIVERA (1886 - 1957)
Estudio de un hombre.

Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1935. 142x97 mm; 5½x3⅞ inches. Signed in pencil, lower right, and annotated with color notes in pencil throughout the composition.

Provenance
Private collection, Texas.
Swann Galleries, New York, May 2, 2019, lot 362.
Acquired from the above by private collector, New York.
Thence by descent to current owner, New York.

Note
We wish to thank Professor Luis–Martín Lozano, for his kind assistance in the research and cataloguing of this work by Diego Rivera.

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Additional Details

This portrait, with the man's head emboldened by a heavy outline, was certainly inspired by the many pre-Columbian sculptures and ceramics Rivera had seen over the years. The drawing was likely pulled from one of Rivera's several sketchbooks. Rivera was known to have carried multiple sketchbooks with him in his jacket pockets and to have sketched anything that caught his attention, especially during his trips to Mexico City. Often a single subject would fill one entire sketchbook. Rivera often inscribed his "Estudios del natural" with notations about the subject or model, colors, and light, as in the present sketch.