Montserrat

1911

Diego Rivera

Associated Names
Diego Rivera

Painter, Mexican, 1886 - 1957

The image depicts a landscape with hills and trees from an elevated point of view. A large tree is prominent on the right, surrounded by grass and shrubs. In the distance, colorful hills are dotted with patterns of light and shadow. The paint has been applied with small, distinct dots creating a vibrant blend of colors. The color palette includes greens, yellows, blues, and pinks, with some areas of orange dirt and light green grasses.
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Artwork overview

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

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