Montserrat, 1911

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 125.1 x 145.4 cm (49 1/4 x 57 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Eugene and Agnes Meyer, Gift of their daughter Elizabeth Meyer Lorentz

Accession Number

2001.112.1

Artists / Makers

Diego Rivera (painter) Mexican, 1886 - 1957

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Inscription

lower left: DiEGO M. RiVERA. 1911; center left reverse: MONTSERRAT / DiEGO M. RiVERA

Provenance

The artist; (Modern Gallery, New York), by 1916; Agnes Ernst Meyer [1887-1970], Mount Kisco, New York, and Washington, D.C.; by inheritance to her daughter, Elizabeth Meyer Lorentz; gift 2001 to NGA.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Meyer, Agnes Ernst
Modern Gallery

Exhibition History

2004: Loan to display with permanent collection, Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum, Austin, 2004-2005.

2011: Diego Rivera, Cubista de la Academia a la Vanguardia 1907 - 1921, Museo del Patrimonio Municipal, Málaga; Casa de la Provincia, Seville, 2011, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1996: De Zayas, Marius. How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York. Edited by Francis M. Naumann, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, 1996:142.

2021: Cecchini, Laura Moure. "Aztec Cubists between Paris and New York: Diego Rivera, Marius de Zayas, and the Reception of Mexican Antiquities in the 1910s". Modernism/modernity 28, no.2 (2021):259, 286, https://doi,org/10.1353/mod.2021.0020.