Mercado de Tehuantepec

Diego Rivera

1930

Lithograph with yellow tone stone

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A busy marketplace scene depicts several figures interacting, with one woman carrying a large basket on her head. The artwork is rendered in a graphic, stylized manner with bold outlines. A busy marketplace scene depicts several figures interacting, with one woman carrying a large basket on her head. The artwork is rendered in a graphic, stylized manner with bold outlines. Diego Rivera attained almost mythic stature in Mexico in his time. The year after he made Market, the Museum of Modern Art in New York gave him a one-man show, only the second in its history (the first went to Matisse). Rivera drew on regional folklore and Mexico's indigenous cultures in his work. He owned such a huge collection of pre-Columbian and Indian art and artifacts that he built a museum to house it all. In this market scene-Rivera regular