The financially troubled San Francisco Art Institute is selling its campus, including its Diego Rivera mural, to help pay off $20 million in debts.
The financially troubled San Francisco Art Institute has put its campus on sale, and the deal includes a building adorned by a multimillion-dollar mural by famed artist Diego Rivera.
Unable to meet its debts, however, SFAI filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on April 19, and on Tuesday, the real estate companyit had been hired to sell the historic campus in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood, including Rivera’s 1931 mural. The school has produced such creative arts luminaries as photographer Annie Leibovitz, director Kathryn Bigelow and painter Kehinde Wiley.
Staying true to his ideals of celebrating the worker, Rivera conspicuously placed construction workers, laborers and artists, with rolled-up sleeves and overalls, higher in the 74-foot-wide painting. The only men wearing suits, the rich and powerful, are placed at the bottom of the work. Rivera, with a brush and palette in hand, is seen off center of the painting with his back to the viewer.
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