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LOT 0248 DIEGO RIVERA (Mexican 1886-1957) A GROUP OF TWO PRINTS,

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DIEGO RIVERA (Mexican 1886-1957) A GROUP OF TWO PRINTS, FROM "Frescoes of Diego Rivera," MOMA, SIGNED, NEW YORK, 1933, comprising two color calotype prints on heavy paper, each plate signed and dated on plate, respectively in blue and black ink, "Diego Rivera, 1942," "The Fall of the Empire," plate XVIII, signed and dated U/R in blue ink, 11" x 8 5/8"; "Juarez and the Reform Laws," plate XIX, signed and dated U/L in black ink, 11" x 8 5/8"; the frescoes in situ at, "The National Palace, Mexico City," color plates printed in Germany by Ganymed, Berlin, for The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Color Reproductions of Mexican Frescoes by Diego Rivera," show running February 20 - March 12, 1933. Note: Original press release facsimile: "Saturday afternoon or Sunday, February 18, 19th , 1933. The Mexican murals of Diego Rivera, in a setting of modern interior architecture will be offered to the public at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53d Street, New York, on Monday, February 20th, when the Museum opens its permanent Architecture Room with a showing of the first color reproductions of the famous murals executed by Diego Rivera in Mexico City, Chapingo and Cuernavaca. The exhibition marks the publication by the Museum of Modern Art of the Rivera Portfolio which contains 19 color plates printed by the Ganymed Press in Berlin, Germany, selected from the frescoes on the walls of the Ministry of Education and the National Palace in Mexico City, the Agricultural School in Chapingo, and the Palace of Cortez in Cuernavaca. In addition 14 monotone plates, printed by the Plandome Press in New York, show on a smaller scale the entire fresco of which each color reproduction is a part. The portfolio also contains a note on the technique of Rivera's frescoes by Jere Abbott, Director of the Smith College Art Museum. The book has been in preparation for over a year and it a publication has been made possible by the generosity of a member of the Advisory Committee of the Museum of Modern Art. The Architecture Room, in which the prints will be shown, will be a permanent feature of the Museum. It has been installed and decorated as an example of modern interior architecture, under the supervision- of Philip Johnson, Director of the Department of Architecture. The furniture is designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeaneret, and Charlotte Perriand. The colors of the room are gray, brown, and blue. Two walls of gray homespun have aluminum base mouldings. One wall is covered by navy blue raw silk curtains and the fourth wall is white. Two windows in this wall are of ribbed translucent glass. Curtains of white fishnet cover this entire wall. The floor is dark brown linoleum."The recipient attributed as Beatrice Joyce Kean (1923-1972), of the Joyce Family and Joyce Foundation, which dedicates considerable charitable donations through grants to the Great Lakes region, focusing on "advancing racial equity and economic mobility," since 1948. Printer reference: Malet, Marian and Sara MacDougall, ed. et al, "Applied Arts in British Exile from 1933: Changing Visual and Material Culture: Yearbook of the Research Center for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Brill, Leiden, 2019, page 154.Copyright by Ray Slater Murphy, noted collector and MoMA Patron.

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