Diego RiveraMexican, 1886–1957Mercado de Tehuantepec
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Not on view at present
Where is “Mercado de Tehuantepec” now? Collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Minneapolis, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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About the work
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 regularly sketched at the markets-the artist dignifies the daily life of the Mexican people.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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- Accession number
- P.11, 773
In the catalog
Sources
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © 2019 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
In the life of Diego Rivera
The whole life1922–1929
Meeting Frida Kahlo
While still married to Guadalupe Marín, Rivera met the art student Frida Kahlo in Mexico City; a passionate affair began between them, and after his divorce from Marín they married.
1928
Meeting Alfred H. Barr Jr.
While still in the Soviet Union, Rivera met the American Alfred H. Barr Jr., soon to become his friend and patron and the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
1929
Expelled from the Party and dismissed as director of the Academy
Having watched Stalinisation in the USSR, Rivera came to hold Trotskyist views; in 1929 he was expelled from the Mexican Communist Party and removed as director of the San Carlos Academy.
21 August 1929
Married: Frida Kahlo
1930s
Asylum for Leon Trotsky
Rivera obtained from President Lázaro Cárdenas asylum in Mexico for the political exile Leon Trotsky and sheltered him and his wife Natalia Sedova in his own house; later a conflict arose between them.
November 1931
Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
In November 1931 the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted a retrospective of Rivera's work, which Frida Kahlo attended with him; it took place shortly before he began the Detroit murals.
