Image
Description
Maker
- Diego Rivera, 1886-1957, Mexican, designer
Title
Sleep (El Sueno)
Year
1932
Medium
Lithograph on paper
Materials/Techniques
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Materials
Supports
Dimensions
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41.6 x 30.3 cm (16 3/8 x 11 7/8 inches) (plate)
Type
Credit
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Museum Works of Art Fund
Object Number
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52.310
About
In this tightly cropped sheet, the limp bodies of huddled campesinos, or farm workers, not only speak to their collective exhaustion, but also to their deprivation of comfort: during the Mexican Revolution, the poor suffered tremendously from inequitable living and working conditions.
This lithograph reworks a detail from The Night of the Poor (La Noche de los Pobres), a fresco Rivera painted in 1928 in the courtyard of Mexico City’s Ministry of Education. Rivera explored the nuances of Mexican society and depicted working-class figures throughout his career.
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Exhibition History
Exhibition History
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