DIEGO RIVERAS PORTRÄTT AV LENIN I ROCKEFELLER CENTER

Orig. bildtext... MURAL OF MEXICAN ARTIST STOPPED Because he painted the features of Lenin joining hands with a soldier and a white and colored worker in his mural in the Great Hall of the Rockefeller Center RCA Building in New York City, Diego Rivera, famous Mexican Artist, was ordered to stop work and was dismissed by Nelson Rockefeller, grandson of John D. Rockefeller Sr. If Rivera consents to change the fresco work will go on, but if he doesn't, it will probably be hidden for an indefinite time. This photo shows the mural which caused the dismissal of the artist. Not. Mexikansk artist får ej fullborda dekorationsmålning i Rockefeller Centre Building i New York, enär han givit Lenins drag åt huvudfiguren, som förenar en soldats, en vit och en svart arbetares händer. Anm. Utsnitt av konstverket Man at the Crossroads. Diego Riveras porträtt av Lenin i Rockefeller Center bilades bort 10/2 1934 Politisk konst Konst och politik Muralmålningar Kontroverser persons: DIEGO RIVERA*;VLADIMIR LENIN* sites: ROCKEFELLER CENTER;NEW YORK;USA