Diego Rivera
The Breething Books catalog includes a 1946 portfolio reproducing Diego Rivera’s Mexican frescoes. This page distinguishes the reproduced mural images from original mural works.
Rivera’s murals and their life in print
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) used fresco to bring questions of revolution, labor and inequality into public view. His mural work gives these subjects a monumental presence. When MoMA presented his work in 1931, the difficulty of exhibiting paintings fixed to walls led him to make portable fresco panels, carrying Mexican subjects—and subsequently New York scenes—into the museum.
A reproduction portfolio provides a different encounter with mural painting. It allows images to be studied as a sequence of loose sheets, while changing their scale and separating them from their architectural setting. The 1946 publication below is valuable to consider in that context: a printed presentation of Rivera’s frescoes, whose contents and condition should be assessed as a portfolio.
Cataloged books and editions
10 Reproductions in Color of Mexican Frescoes (1946)
The catalog records ten loose color reproductions, printed in Mexico in 1946, with Justino Fernández named in the title. Consult the product page and photographs for the portfolio’s contents, format and condition. View the 1946 Rivera portfolio.
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Portfolio notes
The 1946 Mexican Frescoes portfolio: contents and format
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Further reading
Background: a single artwork or illustrated design from the cataloged Diego Rivera holding.