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RIVERA, DIEGO; and RIVAS, MÉNDEZ. Cuauhtémoc Tragedia. Illustrations by Rivera, including 4 full-page and one double-page plate printed on yellow paper. Small 8vo, publisher's red wrappers with illustration by Rivera, lettered in black, extremities rubbed with some loss, tips and last quarter of fore-edge bumped. Mexico, 1925
Warmly Inscribed and Signed with a drawing by Rivera to Justino Fernandez, art historian and critic of 20th-century Mexican art, on the half-title. In this depiction of the Cuauhtémoc tragedy, Rivera drew the main characters in pairs and in a style very similar to the pictographs of the pre-Hispanic codex. The ideas worked out in this volume were eventually translated and enlarged into the murals at the Palacio de Cortés in Cuernavaca (National Palace).
