MFA Houston Acquires Long-Unseen Diego Rivera Work for $4 M.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston acquired a recently rediscovered painting by Mexican artist Diego Rivera for $4 million at Christie’s auction held on Friday. The price for the work is the third-highest one ever achieved for a work by Rivera at auction, whose record of $9.6 million was paid for The Rivals (1931) at Christie’s in May 2018, when it sold from the collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller.
The painting that the museum acquired, La Bordadora (The Embroiderer), from 1928,