About the Artwork
Edsel B. Ford
1932
Diego M. Rivera
1886 - 1957
Mexican
Unknown
Oil on canvas, mounted on masonite
Unframed: 38 1/2 × 49 1/4 × 1 1/8 inches (97.8 × 125.1 × 2.9 cm) Framed: 40 5/8 × 51 1/8 × 2 1/2 inches (103.2 × 129.9 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford
77.5
Restricted
Markings
Signed and dated, upper left. See inscriptions.
Inscribed, upper left, on blackboard: VERDADERO RETRATO/DEL SENOR EDSEL B. FORD/INGENIERO INDUSTRIAL/Y PRESIDENTE DE LA CO-/MISION DE ARTE DE LA/CIUDAD DE DETROIT,/ESTADO DE MICHIGAN,/E. U. DE AMERICA./LOPINTO Diego Rivera/EL MES DE NOVIEMBRE DE/1932 Translation: Realistic portrait of Mr. Edsel B. Ford, industrial engineer and president of the Arts Commission of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. I, Diego Rivera, painted it in the month of November of 1932.
Provenance
1977-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 56, 1 (1977): p. 51 (ill.).
The Rouge. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1978, p. 51 (fig. 23).
Bulletin of the DIA 57, 1 (1978): pp. 9, 44 (ill.).
Amerika Traum Und Depression. Exh. cat., Akademie der Kunste. Berlin, 1980, no. 267 (ill.).
Diego Rivera. Exh. cat., Museo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City, 1983, no. 46.
Diego Rivera, A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1986, no. 59 (fig. 172).
Diego Rivera, 1886-1957, Pressespiegel, Retrospektive. Exh. cat., Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildene Kunst. Berlin, 1987, p. 4 (fig. 5).
Oles, James, ed. Diego Rivera's America. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, 2022, p. 165-171; p. 179 (pl. 155, ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Diego M. Rivera, Edsel B. Ford, 1932, oil on canvas, mounted on Masonite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford, 77.5.
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