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
Gesture in Suspension
Although an indispensable name in Brazilian art, Maria Leontina had not had an extensive exhibition of her work for a long time. Gesto em suspensão [Gesture in Suspension] fills that gap, presenting her production in the period spanning from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Apr 28 - Jul 16
Casa Roberto Marinho Rio de Janeiro
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Maria Leontina
Sem título, 1956
Exhibition
5 years of Casa Roberto Marinho 2018-2023
Three shows are being held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening of Casa Roberto Marinho: Gesto em suspensão [Gesture in Suspension], featuring works by Maria Leontina, and organized by Alexandre Dacosta; A criação do artista popular [The Creation of the Folk Artist], curated by João Emanuel Carneiro, from the art collection gathered by his mother, Lélia Coelho Frota; and Coleção no seu Tempo [The Collection in Its Time], with pieces from our own collection.
Apr 28 - Jul 16
Casa Roberto Marinho Rio de Janeiro
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Roberto Magalhães
Homem com dedos muito finos, 1989
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023
Trusteeship: João Emanuel Carneiro
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - DEC 11 TO APR 02 2023
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti
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