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
Restless Geometry
Ascânio MMM is an artist whose work combines various influences and questions central to Brazilian art in the last fifty years. His production has maintained a high degree of internal consistency in diverse domains such as constructivism, architecture, the truth of materials, the dialectics between planning and execution, art in public spaces, three-dimensionality, and planar composition.
Dec 14 - Mar 30
Casa Roberto Marinho Rio de Janeiro
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Ascânio MMM
Estudos para Fitangulares
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 15 TO NOV 17 2024
Trusteeship: Cristina Canale
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 15 TO NOV 17 2024
Trusteeship: Pollyana Quintella
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - MAY 11 TO JUL 21 2024
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti, Marcia Mello e Victor Burton
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 25 TO NOV 12 2023
Trusteeship: Paulo Venancio Filho
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023
Trusteeship: Alexandre Dacosta
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023
Trusteeship: João Emanuel Carneiro