Flower Market
Diego Rivera
Mexican, 1886–1957
1930
This lithograph by Diego Rivera presents a crowded Mexican flower market, using simplified, gently caricatured figures and riders to dignify everyday vendors and communal ritual.
A flat wash of sunlit yellow and thick black outlines turns braids, rounded backs, and baskets of blooms into a rhythmic, almost sculptural pattern that reads as both folk scene and graphic design.
Bringing his muralist attention to working people into the medium of print, Rivera made popular Mexican life legible to international modernism while creating an affordable, portable form of social representation.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 11 x 15 7/8" (28 x 40.4 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 19 7/8" (38 x 50.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
1556.1940
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