The artworks were acquired over 60 years featuring an important collection of Brazilian Modernism and Informal Abstractionism.
Roberto Marinho’s private collection, including paintings, prints and sculptures began with a bet on artists of his generation. Many of them were still unknown at that time, such as José Pancetti, Alberto da Veiga Guignard and Candido Portinari.
There are also works by Di Cavalcanti, Ismael Nery, Lasar Segall, Milton Dacosta, Tarsila do Amaral, Burle Marx, Djanira, Iberê Camargo, Antonio Bandeira, Alfredo Volpi, Tomie Ohtake, Manabu Mabe, Maria Martins, Bruno Giorgi, and Ariano Suassuna among others.
Besides its focus on Brazilian art, there is also a selection of works by foreigners, as Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger e Marina Helena Vieira da Silva.
The collection is a reflection of its time. In the first half of the twentieth century Brazil was recycling itself, becoming less rural and more industrial. New trends of the European artistic movements were gradually assimilated and transformed by the Brazilian context. In the 1930s, painters took Brazil as a topic and language.
Ingeborg ten Haeff
Asymmetric space and the tension between the abstract and the figure are at the core of the work by Ingeborg ten Haeff. In these two canvases the scale is not a question of size: it plays a role as significant as the colors, balances, textures, marks of the pictorial process, and the vestiges remaining on the canvas.
We are grateful to John Githens, a scholar of Slavic languages, professor of Russian at Vassar College, and Ingeborg’s husband for 42 years (1969–2011), for having donated these works to Instituto Casa Roberto Marinho. Their presence in our collection will allow this important artist, who always maintained links with our country, to begin to be garner her rightful place among the history of Brazilian art, partially constructed by artists of other nationalities.
Lauro Cavalcanti | Executive Director ICRM
Exhibition
Tropical Fictions
Holding an exhibition by Maria Martins in a joint effort with the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) deepens a partnership that goes back not only to recent initiatives, but also to the time of our institute’s namesake.
Mar 12 - Jun 26
Casa Roberto Marinho Rio de Janeiro
Visit the exhibitionMaria Martins
O impossível, 1940
Exhibition
1910-1940
A celebração do centenário da Semana de Arte Moderna ocorre ao longo deste 2022 em várias instituições brasileiras. Mostras e estudos a enaltecem, relativizam sua importância, apontam a desatenção aos movimentos de outras regiões e ou levantam questões que, talvez, reflitam não mais que a transposição de questões contemporâneas a um outro tempo.
Mar 12 - Jun 26
Casa Roberto Marinho Rio de Janeiro
Visit the exhibitionTarsila do Amaral
O touro (Paisagem com touro), 1925
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - OCT 30 TO FEB 06 2022
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti e Isabela Ono
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - OCT 30 TO FEB 06 2022
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti e Isabela Ono
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 21 TO SEP 19 2021
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - MAR 13 TO AUG 08 2021
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - MAR 13 TO SEP 19 2021
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - DEC 06 TO AUG 09 2020
Trusteeship: Paulo Venancio Filho e Marcia Mello