Still Life with Bread and Fruit, 1917

Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886–1957
Oil on canvas
Gift of Morton D. May
53.25.1

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Silvestre Revueltas is regarded as one of the greatest Mexican composers of all time, and like his contemporary Diego Rivera, he often constructed his works around elemental cultural subjects that when filtered through his aesthetic vision refracted into studies warranting perpetual consideration