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Parent and child bathing signed in pencil 'Diego Rivera' (lower left) watercolour and pencil on buff paper the reverse with a label for the Academy Art Shop Picture Framers, New York City 11 x 19.5cm

Footnote: Provenance Collection of the late James Benson OBE (1925 - 2018) The present works date from the latter part of 1928. Rivera had spent the first part of the year travelling across the USSR and recording the sights in his sketchbook, now held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. By August of the same year, Rivera had returned to Mexico to complete his work at the Secretaría de Educación Pública.

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