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Diego Rivera
Still Life with Bread and Fruit (Naturaleza muerta con pan y fruta)1917

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Vertical Cubist oil painting of a still life with a ceramic pot, green bottles, stemmed glass, fruits, and boxes rendered in faceted planes of amber, gray, and green

Diego Rivera, Still Life with Bread and Fruit (Naturaleza muerta con pan y fruta), 1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Morton D. May, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
Title
Still Life with Bread and Fruit (Naturaleza muerta con pan y fruta)
Date Made
1917
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
45 3/4 × 35 in. (116.21 × 88.9 cm); frame: 54 1/4 × 43 1/2 × 3 in. (137.8 × 110.49 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Morton D. May
Accession Number
53.25.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Latin American Art
Provenance
The artist (1886-1957). [Weyhe Gallery, New York]; sold to Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis; given in 1953 to the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Affron, Matthew, Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, and Renato González Mello, eds. Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Mexico City: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2016.
Copyright
© Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museum Trust. Reproduction of Diego Rivera governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.