List of works by Diego Rivera
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This is a list of works by Diego Rivera (8 December 1886, Guanajuato – 24 November 1957, Mexico City). He was a Modern painter, famous for his social realist murals. This list is split into two distinct era's in Rivera's work, the formative years between 1886 until 1920; and the social realism years between 1921 until his death in 1957.
Rivera is also known for his marriage to Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907, Mexico City – 13 July 1954, Mexico City), also a celebrated Mexican painter.{{Cite web|title=Diego Rivera, Mexican painter|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diego-Rivera|access-date=2021-01-26|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}
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Paintings by Rivera
= Formative years (1886–1912) =
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!Image !Year !Location !Dimensions ({{resx|H|W}} in cm) !Medium |
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|Classical Head |1898 | |{{resx|48.5|39.2}} | |
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|The Threshing Floor |1904 |Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico |{{resx|100|114.6}} | |
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|Head of a Goat |1905 |Rafael Coronel Collection, Cuernavaca, Mexico |{{resx|12.5|9.5}} | |
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|Night Scene in Avila |1907 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City | | |
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|Self-Portrait |1907 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City | | |
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|Avila Morning (The Ambles Valley) |1908 |Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City |{{resx|97|123}} | |
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|Street in Ávila (Ávila Landscape) |1908 |Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City |{{resx|129|141}} | |
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|House over the Bridge |1909 |Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City |{{resx|147|120}} | |
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|Notre Dame de Paris |1909 | |{{resx|144|113}} | |
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|Portrait of Angelina Beloff |1909 | | | |
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|El Picador |1909 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City |{{resx|177|133}} | |
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|Breton Girl |1910 |Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico |{{resx|100|80}} | |
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|Head Of A Breton Woman |1910 |Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico |{{resx|129|141}} | |
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|After the Storm (The Grounded Ship) |1910 |Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City |{{resx|120.7|146.7}} | |
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|Landscape |1911 | | | |
= Pre-Cubism (1912–1913) =
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!Image !Title (English) !Year !Location !Dimensions ({{resx|H|W}} in cm) !Medium |
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|View Of Toledo |1912 | |{{resx|112|91}} | |
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|Landscape at Toledo |1913 |Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Veracruz, Mexico |{{resx|32|46}} | |
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|Portrait Of Oscar Miestchaninoff |1913 |Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico |{{resx|147|120}} | |
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|Portrait Of The Adolfo Best Maugard |1913 |Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico |{{resx|227.5|161.5}} | |
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|The Sun Breaking through the Mist |1913 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, |{{resx|83.5|59}} | |
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|The Adoration Of The Virgin |1913 | |{{resx|150|120}} |Oil and encaustic on canvas |
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|Still Life |1913 |Hermitage, St. Petersburg |{{resx|84|65}} |Tempera on canvas |
= Cubism (1913–1920) =
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!Image !Year !Location !Dimensions ({{resx|H|W}} in cm) !Medium |
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|Woman At a Well |1913 |Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City | | |
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|Chimenea (Chimney) |1913 |Foro Valparaíso, Mexico City, México |{{resx|73|59.4}} |Oil and pencil on canvas |
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|Portrait of Two Women |1914 |Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock |{{resx|197.5|161.3}} |Oil on canvas |
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|La Tour Eiffel |1914 | |{{resx|115|92}} | |
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|The Alarm Clock |1914 |Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City | | |
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|Sailor at Breakfast |1914 | |{{resx|117|72}} | |
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|Young Man with a Fountain Pen |1914 | |{{resx|79.5|63.5}} | |
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|Portrait of Kawashima and Foujita |1914 | |{{resx|78.5|74}} |Oil and collage on canvas |
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|Zapata-style Landscape |1915 |Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico |{{resx|145|125}} | |
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|Seated Woman (Women with the Body of a Guitar) |1915 |Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City | | |
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|Portrait de Martin Luis Guzman |1915 | |{{resx|72.3|59.3}} | |
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|Portrait of Ramon Gomez de la Serna |1915 | | | |
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|El Rastro |1915 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, |{{resx|27.5|38.5}} | |
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|Portrait of Marevna | |Art institute of Chicago |{{resx|145.7|112.7}} | |
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|Motherhood Angelina and the Child Diego |1916 |Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City |{{resx|134.5|88.5}} |Oil on canvas |
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|Urban Landscape |1916 |Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City | | |
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|Still Life with Tulips |1916 | |{{resx|67.8|53.7}} |Oil on canvas |
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|Still Life with Utensils |1917 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, |{{resx|71|54}} | |
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|La Jarra de Cerveza (The Beer Pitcher) |1917 |Foro Valparaíso, Mexico City, México |{{resx|27|22}} |Oil on canvas |
= Realism (1917–1918) =
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!Image !Title (English) !Year !Location !Dimensions ({{resx|H|W}} in cm) !Medium |
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|Knife and Fruit in Front of the Window |1917 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, |91.8 × 92.4 | |
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|Still Life with Ricer also known as Still Life with Garlic Press |1918 | | | |
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|The Outskirts Of Paris |1918 | | | |
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|The Mathematician |1918 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City, | | |
= Social Realism (1921–1957) =
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!Image !Year !Location !Dimensions ({{resx|H|W}} in cm) !Medium |
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|Creation |1922–1923 |San Ildefonso College, Mexico City, | |Fresco, Gold leaf |
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|Bather of Tehuantepec |1923 | |63 × 52 |Oil on canvas |
|Entry into the Mine
|1923 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City |474 × 366 |Fresco |
|Exit from the Mine
|1923 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|The Embrace
|1923 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|Tehuana Women
|1923 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City |476 × 214 |Fresco |
|The Liberation of The Peon
|1923 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|The New School
|1923 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|Good Friday on the Santa Anita Canal
|1923 | |456 × 356 |Fresco |
|The Sugar Mill
|1923 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City |482 × 366 |Fresco |
|The Festival of The Distribution of The Land
|1923–1924 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|The Festival of The First of May
|1923–1924 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|The Market
|1923–1924 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|The Maize Festival
|1923–1924 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City |438 × 239 |Fresco |
|The Sacrificial Offering Day of the Dead
|1923–1924 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City |415 × 237 |Fresco |
|Alliance of the Peasant and the Industrial Worker
|1924 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |Fresco |
|The Day of the Dead
|1924 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|Partition of the Land
|1924 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |Fresco |
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|Dia de Flores (Flower Festival) |1925 |Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) |147.3 × 120.7 |Oil on canvas |
|The Exploiters
|1926 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |Fresco |
|The Abundant Earth
|1926 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |Fresco |
|Revelation of the Way
|1926 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |Fresco |
|Triumph of the Revolution
|1926 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |Fresco |
|The Organization of The Agrarian Movement
|1926 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |Fresco |
|The Mechanization of The Country
|1926 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | |Fresco |
|The Land's Bounty Rightfully Possessed
|1926 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | |Fresco |
|Indian Boy and Indian Woman with Corn Stalks
|1926–27 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | | |
|Subterranean Forces
|1926–27 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | | |
|Maturation
|1926–27 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico | | |
|The Blood of the Revolutionary Martyrs Fertilizing the Earth
|1926–27 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico |244 × 491 | |
|The Liberated Earth with The Powers of Nature Controlled by Man
|1926–27 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico |692 × 598 | |
|The Perpetual Renewal of the Revolutionary Struggle
|1926–27 |Chapingo Autonomous University, Texcoco, Mexico |354 × 357 | |
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|Cargadora With Dog |1927 | | |Watercolour |
|Death of the Capitalist
|1928 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | | |
|Night of the Rich
|1928 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | | |
|Our Bread
|1928 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | | |
|The Learned
|1928 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | | |
|The Painter, the Sculptor and the Architect
|1923–1928 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | | |
|Wall Street Banquet
|1928 |Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters, Mexico City | | |
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|The Arsenal |1928 |Courtyard of the Fiestas, Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico City, Mexico | |Fresco |
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|Entering the City |1930 |Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca, Mexico | |Fresco |
|My Godfather's Sons (Portrait of Modesto and Jesus Sanchez)
|1930 |Fomento Cultural Banamex, Mexico City | | |
|Zapata's Horse
|1930 | | | |
|Conquest and Revolution
|1930–31 | | | |
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|Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees |1930–31 |University of California, Berkeley, Stern Hall, Berkeley, California |{{resx|265|100}} |Fresco |
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|Allegory of California |1930–31 |The City Club of San Francisco, Stock Exchange Tower, San Francisco, California | |Fresco |
|Zapata
|1930–31 |The History of Cuernavaca and Morelos |214 × 89 | |
|The Making of a Fresco, Showing The Building of a City
|1931 |San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California | |Fresco |
|Frozen Assets
|1931 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City |188.5 × 239 | |
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|Blue Boy with the Banana |1931 |Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |91.4 × 54.9 |Oil on canvas |
|Edsel B. Ford
|1932 |Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan |125.1 × 97.8 | |
|Detroit Industry, South Wall
|1932–1933 |Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan | |Fresco |
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|Detroit Industry, North Wall |1933 |Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan | |Fresco |
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|Man at the Crossroads / Man, Controller of the Universe |1933–34 |Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City | | |
|The Ancient Indian World
|1929–35 |Palacio Nacional, Mexico City | | |
|The World of Today and Tomorrow
|1929–35 |Palacio Nacional, Mexico City | | |
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|The History of Mexico: From Conquest to the Future (main wall) |1929–35 |Palacio Nacional, Mexico City | | |
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|1929–35 |Palacio Nacional, Mexico City | | |
|Delfina and Dimas
|1935 | |24 × 31 |tempera on masonite |
|The Flower Carrier (Flower Carrier)
|1935 |San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) |121.9 × 121.3 |Oil and tempera on masonite |
|The Pinole Seller
|1936 |Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City |81.4 × 60.7 | |
|Indian Woman Spinning / Indigena Tejiendo
|1936 |Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona |81.3 × 59.7 | |
|Carnival of Mexican Life. Dictatorship
|1936 |Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City | | |
|Copalli
|1937 |Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City, New York |91.44 × 121.92 | |
|Portrait of Lupe Marin
|1938 |Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City |171.3 × 122.3 | |
|Portrait of Dolores Del Rio
|1938 | | | |
|The Lady in White
|1939 | | | |
|Portrait of Madesta and Inesita
|1939 | |99 × 69 | |
|Dancer Resting
|1939 |Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City |95 × 166 | |
|Los Vasos Comunicantes (The Communicating Cups)
|1939 |Foro Valparaíso, Mexico City, México |60 × 84,5 |linocut on paper |
|Pan American Unity
|1940 |San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (was previously located at City College of San Francisco, Diego Rivera Theater, but moved in 2020) |670 × 2,260 |Fresco |
|The Hands of Dr. Moore
|1940 |San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California |45.8 × 55.9 | |
|Portrait of Paulette Goddard
|1940–41 | | | |
|Self-Portrait Dedicated to Irene Rich
|1941 |Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), Northampton, Massachusetts |61 × 43 | |
|The Flower Seller
|1941 | | | |
|The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies)
|1941 |Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |121.9 × 121.9 |Oil on masonite |
|El Vendedor de Alcatraces (Calla Lily Vendor)
|1942 |Foro Valparaíso, Mexico City, México | | |
|Portrait of Carlos Pellicer
|1942 | |55 × 43 | |
|Portrait of Natasha Zakólkowa Gelman
|1943 | |115 × 153 | |
|Calla Lily Vendor
|1943 |The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art |150 × 120 |Oil on masonite |
|Nude with Calla Lilies
|1944 | |157 × 124 | |
|The Day of the Dead
|1944 |Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City |91 × 73.5 | |
|The Milliner. Portrait of Henri de Chatillon
|1944 | | | |
|Portrait of Adalgisa Nery
|1945 | | | |
|Portrait of Cuca Bustamante
|1946 |Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, |158 × 122.5 | |
|Portrait of Mrs Elisa Saldivar de Gutierrez Roldan
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|Portrait of Linda Christian
|1947 | | | |
|The Temptations of Saint Anthony
|1947 |Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City, |90 × 110 | |
|Portrait of an Actress
|1948 | | | |
|Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park
|1948 |Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City | | |
|Retrato de María Félix
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|Portrait of Evangelina Rivas de De la Chica, The lady from Oaxaca
|1949 | | | |
|Portrait of Senora Dona Evangelina Rivas de LaChica
|1949 | | | |
|Portrait of Ruth Rivera
|1949 | |199 × 100.5 | |
|Vendedora de Flores (The Flower Seller)
|1949 |Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain |180 × 150 |Oil on canvas |
|Colonisation, 'The Great City of Tenochtitlan'
|1945–52 |Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, |971 × 492 | |
|The Huastec Civilisation
|1950 |Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, | | |
|The Papermakers
|1950 |Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, | | |
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|Totonac Civilization |1950 |Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, | | |
|Pre-Hispanic America
|1950 | | | |
|Figure Symbolizing the African Race
|1951 | | | |
|Figure Symbolizing the Asiatic Race
|1951 | | | |
|The Hands of Nature Offering Water
|1951 | | | |
|Portrait of the Young Girl Elenita Carrillo Flores
|1952 | |55 × 105 | |
|The Banana Leaf Loader
|1953 | |50 × 40 | |
|The History of Medicine in Mexico: The People's Demand for Better Health
|1953 | | | |
|Portrait of Sra. Dona Elena Flores de Carrillo
|1953 | |140 × 221.5 | |
|The Painter's Studio
|1954 | |150 × 178 | |
|Evening Twilight at Acapulco
|1956 | |30 × 40 | |
|Portrait of Silvia Pinal
|1956 | | | |
|The Hammock
|1956 | | | |
|May Day Procession in Moscow
|1956 | |135.2 × 108.3 | |
|Lenin in 1922
|Unknown | | | |
|Sugar Plantation, Tealtenango, Morelos and Indian Slaves in the Gold Mines
|Unknown | | | |
|The Architect, Jesus T. Acevedo
|Unknown |Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City | | |
|Portrait of Marevna
|Unknown | | | |