Sergey Terekov

From 1945 to 1951From 1945 to 1951, Rivera worked on a series of murals in Mexico City. Titled ‘The Pre-Hispanic Civilization to the Conquest’ it was one of his last major works. His last mural on this series was ‘Popular History of Mexico’.

In 1934In 1934, Rivera recreated ‘Man at the Crossroad’ in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. However, after this he did not receive any major commission for a long time. He therefore, concentrated on paintings. Finally, on June 5, 1940, he was invited by Pflueger to paint a ten-panel mural for the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, he was invited by the Rockefeller family to create a mural at the Rockefeller Center in New York. He started working on this in 1933in 1933. Named ‘Man at the Crossroad’, it created furor because it contained a portrait of Vladimir Lenin. Since Rivera refused to remove it he was asked to leave and his commission to paint at Chicago World Fair was cancelled.

Next in 1930Next in 1930, Rivera went to San Francisco and painted a mural for the Stock Exchange City Club and received a remuneration of US$ 25000. He also did a fresco work for the California School of Arts. Then from 1932 to 1933, he created twenty-seven fresco panels on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts and named them ‘Detroit Industry’.