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Los Frutos del Trabajo/The Fruits of Labor
Signed Lithograph by Diego Rivera (1932)
16½ x 11¾in.)

The Border Book Festival, Inc. (BBF) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit literary arts organization based in Mesilla, New Mexico. We are offering for sale a signed Diego Rivera lithograph, The Fruits of Labor, (1932) #49 of 100 that was donated to our organization by an anonymous donor. Created by Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957), who is an internationally recognized artist and a central figure in the Mexican mural movement, Rivera created a highly personal style by blending Renaissance and modernist techniques with his interest in indigenous Mexican art forms. While his legacy undoubtedly rests on his monumental projects, his sizeable body of easel paintings and prints reached a far broader audience.

This poignant evocation of the toils and rewards of agricultural life was produced when the Mexican agrarian reform was unfolding with full force in the 1920s and '30s. The iconic composition focuses attention on the dignity of the workers and their children with a quiet, mystical grandeur of expression.

A lithograph is a printing technique using a process in which prints are pulled on a special press from a flat stone or metal surface that has been chemically sensitized so that the ink only sticks to the design areas and is repelled by the non-image areas. 

The BBF is looking for a private buyer.  For more information, contact Denise Chávez, 575-523-3988 or bbf@borderbookfestival.com