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Sleep - The Night of the Poor (La Noche de los Pobres). 2.06 x 1.59 m. Court of Fiestas, Corrido of the Agrarian Revolution, Level 3, North Wall; In 1923 he began work with a team of artists on the walls of the two three-storey patios of the new Secretariat of Education building in Mexico City. He soon assumed sole responsibility for the entire project, creating over a hundred fresco panels by 1928, covering over 1585 sq. m. Of these, The Mine and Embrace and Peasants (both 1923), in the Court of Labour, combine the stylistic influence of Giotto with Mexican folk themes, while one of the last, the Distributing Arms [En el Arsenal] panel (1928), which displays all the characteristics of his mature mural style, introduces the great series known as the Corrida [or Ballad] of the Proletarian Revolution, on the third storey of the buildings surrounding the Court of Fiestas. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/5/2008)