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Cristo Negro
Cristo Negro

Cristo Negro

Lola Cueto (born María Dolores Velázquez Rivas) (Mexican, 1897 – 1978)
1924
Medium/TechniqueCotton; embroidered
DimensionsHeight x width (embroidered portion): 125 × 94.5 cm (49 3/16 × 37 3/16 in.)
Height x width (with backing fabric): 135.3 × 104.8 cm (53 1/4 × 41 1/4 in.)
Credit LineCharles Potter Kling Fund
Accession number2019.542
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Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
Provenance1978, by inheritance to the daughter of the artist, Mireya Cueto Velasquez; by inheritance to her son, Pablo Ridgell Cueto; 2018, sold by Pablo Ridgell Cueto to José Luis Moctezuma Echeverría, Mexico City, Mexico; 2019, sold by José Luis Moctezuma Echeverría to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)

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