El sueño (the Dream)

Diego Rivera Mexican
1932
Not on view
The lithograph reproduces a detail from the lower section of the fresco that Rivera executed in 1928 for one of the courtyards of the Secretaría de Educacion Pública, Mexico City: La Noche de los Pobres (The Night of the Poor),

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Object Information
  • Title: El sueño (the Dream)
  • Artist: Diego Rivera (Mexican, Guanajuato 1886–1957 Mexico City)
  • Date: 1932
  • Medium: Lithograph
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 14 3/8 in. (49.5 × 36.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
  • Object Number: 33.26.4
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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