Montserrat
1911
Painter, Mexican, 1886 - 1957

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Collection of Eugene and Agnes Meyer, Gift of their daughter Elizabeth Meyer Lorentz
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Dimensions
overall: 125.1 x 145.4 cm (49 1/4 x 57 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2001.112.1
Artwork history & notes
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
Exhibition History
1916
Exhibition of Paintings by Diego Rivera, Modern Gallery, New York, October 1916, no.1, as Landscape (Monserrat).
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.
Inscriptions
lower left: DiEGO M. RiVERA. 1911; center left reverse: MONTSERRAT / DiEGO M. RiVERA
Wikidata ID
Q20191555