Study for Detroit Industry, North Wall

1932

Diego M. Rivera Mexican, 1886 - 1957

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About the Artwork

Title Study for Detroit Industry, North Wall

Artwork Date 1932

Artist Diego M. Rivera

Life Dates 1886 - 1957

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Mexican

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Watercolor and graphite on paper

Dimensions Image: 4 1/2 × 11 inches (11.4 × 27.9 cm) Sheet: 8 × 13 inches (20.3 × 33 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2023.545

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, in pencil, lower left: Diego Rivera 1932 | Detroit

Inscriptions Inscribed, in black ink, verso on backing board: This is a sketch of a mural commissioned by the Ford Motor Co [unclear if ?] to be | displayed in the company office. Inscribed, in black marker, on bottom of frame verso, upside-down: 10076[obscured]

Provenance

(Central Art Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico);
by 1998, estate of James H. Heineman [1917-1994] (New York, New York, USA);
May 28, 1998, sold by (Sotheby’s, New York, New York, USA) auction Latin American Art, lot 184;
1999, (CDS Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
February 18, 1999-2020, purchased by Gilbert B. Silverman [1925-2016] and Lila Silverman [1933-2020] (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
2020-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Latin American Art. Sales cat., Sotheby’s, New York, May 28, 1998, no. 184.

Rosenthal, Mark. Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo in Detroit. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2015, p. 223, cat. 67.

Kvaran, Gunnar B. and Jon Hendricks. After the Beginning and Before the End: Instruction Drawings From the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit. Exh. cat., Bergen Kunstmuseum. Bergen, 2001, cat. 589, p. 118 (ill.); p. 173.

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Diego M. Rivera, Study for Detroit Industry, North Wall, 1932, watercolor and graphite on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, 2023.545.