Photographs relating to Diego Rivera's fresco "Nightmare of War, Dream of Peace,"

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Photographs relating to Diego Rivera's fresco "Nightmare of War, Dream of Peace,"

1952.0

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Four photographs of Diego Rivera's portable fresco ightmare of War, Dream of Peace" 1952, now missing. One photograph of Rivera at work on the fresco; one of Frida Kahlo in a wheelchair, posing for the fresco; one of a segment of the fresco; and one color snapshot of Rivera and Kahlo with the work in progress, dated "week of April 7, 1952." Photographer unknown.

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