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
Ten views of the Roberto Marinho Collection
Casa Roberto Marinho is dedicated to exhibitions involving its collection in the visual arts field. In the six decades that it served as the residence of the late journalist Roberto Marinho, the house held manifestations of various fields of creation: theatrical plays, film screenings, and musical and literary presentations.
Dec 11 - Apr 02
Casa Roberto Marinho Rio de Janeiro
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Identidade visual exposição Alegria aqui é Mato,
Exhibition
Ten views of the Roberto Marinho Collection
Casa Roberto Marinho is dedicated to exhibitions involving its collection in the visual arts field. In the six decades that it served as the residence of the late journalist Roberto Marinho, the house held manifestations of various fields of creation: theatrical plays, film screenings, and musical and literary presentations.
Dec 11 - Apr 02
Casa Roberto Marinho Rio de Janeiro
Visit the exhibition19 Design
Identidade visual exposição Alegria aqui é Mato,
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 19 TO NOV 20 2022
Trusteeship: Max Perlingeiro
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - MAR 12 TO JUN 26 2022
Trusteeship: Isabella Rjeille e Fernanda Lopes
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - MAR 12 TO JUN 26 2022
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti
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