D
iego
R
ivera
The Italian Sketchbook
Pencil, conté crayon and ink on paper
30
drawings on
28
pages unbound, dimensions variable
1920
–
21
provenance
Angelina Beloff (Rivera’s first wife)
gift to Jean Charlot,
1945
by descent to Martin Charlot,
the artist’s son
exhibition history
Diego Rivera,
50
Años de su Labor Artistico
,
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes,
Mexico City, August–December
1949
,
no.
192
, illus.
Diego Rivera: A Retrospective
, Detroit
Institute of Arts, February
10
–April
27
,
1986
, no.
89
, illus.
literature
Charlot, Jean, “Diego Rivera in Italy,”
Magazine of Art
, January
1953
, pp.
3
–
10
.
Charlot, Jean,
The Mexican Mural
Renaissance:
1920-1925
, Yale University
Press,
1963.
Arquin, Florence,
Diego Rivera, The
Shaping of an Artist, 1889-1921
,
University of Oklahoma Press,
1971
,
pp.
113
–
143
and ff.
Exhibition catalogue for
Diego Rivera:
A Retrospective
, Detroit Institute of
Arts (traveling exhibition),
1986
, W.W.
Norton, New York, fig.
73
, p.
52
in the
catalogue (scaffold study).
Diego Rivera: Catálogo General de Obra de
Caballete
, Instituto Nacional de Bellas
Artes, Mexico,
1989
, no.
347
, p.
52
.
Marnham, Patrick,
Dreaming with His
Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera,
Alfred
A. Knopf,
1998
, pp.
147
–
152
.
Hamill, Pete,
Diego Rivera
, Harry N.
Abrams,
1999
, pp.
75
–
79
.
Lozano, Luis-Martin, “Diego Rivera,
Classicus Sum,” essay in catalogue
of the exhibition
Diego Rivera Art &
Revolution
, Cleveland Museum of Art
(traveling exhibition),
1999
, pp.
129
–
157.
