Portrait of Marevna by Diego Rivera
Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Marevna

Diego Rivera · c. 1915

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Alfred Stieglitz, New York (1864–1946) and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and New Mexico, by 1949 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from Apr. 21, 1949, incoming receipt, R9550; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, The Modern Gallery, <em>Exhibition of Paintings by Diego M. Rivera and Mexican Pre–Conquest Art</em>, Oct. 2–21, 1916, cat. 6.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>Diego Rivera</em>, Dec. 23, 1931–Jan. 27, 1932, not in cat.; Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Feb. 3–10, 1932 and Feb. 12–29, 1932.
  • PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>History of an American: Alfred Stieglitz, "291" and after: Selections from the Stieglitz Collection</em>, 1944, cat. 121.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection</em>, June 10–Aug. 31, 1947, no. 98, as <em>Portrait of Madame Marcoussis</em>.
  • Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Nacional de Artes Plasticas, <em>Exposición nacional: Diego Rivera, 50 años de su labor artistica</em>, Aug–Dec, 1949, cat. 80, as <em>Retrato de Madame Marcoussis</em>.
  • MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, <em>Diego Rivera: A Retrospective</em>, Feb. 10–Apr. 27, 1986, cat. 30, fig. 49; PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 2–Aug. 10, 1986; Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Sept. 29, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987.
  • Paris, Musée d'Orsay, <em>New York et l'Art Moderne: Alfred Stieglitz et Son Cercle (1905–1930) [New York and Modern Art: Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle (1905–1930]</em>, Oct. 18, 2004–Jan. 16, 2005, cat. 100 (Paris only).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2125/the-modern-series-shatter-rupture-break"><em>The Modern Series: Shatter Rupture Break</em></a>, Feb. 15–May 3, 2015, digital cat. 49.

Literature

Published references

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>History of an American: Alfred Stieglitz, "291" and after: Selections from the Stieglitz Collection</em>, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1944), cat. 121.
  • Museo Nacional de Artes Plasticas, <em>Exposicion de Homenaje Nacional, Diego Rivera: 50 Años de Su Labor Artistica</em>, exh. cat. (México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1951), n.p., cat. 80 (ill.), as <em>Retrato de Madame Marcoussis</em>.
  • Bertram D. Wolfe, "The Strange Case of Diego Rivera," <em>Arts Digest</em> 29, no. 7 (Jan. 1, 1955): 8 (ill.).
  • Florence Arquin, <em>Diego Rivera: The Shaping of an Artist, 1889–1921</em> (University of Oklahoma Press, 1971), 84–86, pl. 9, 52 (ill.).
  • Taracena 1979, 40, fig. 66 (ill.).
  • Marius de Zayas, "How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York," introduction and notes by Francis M. Naumann, <em>Arts Magazine</em> 54, no. 8 (April 1980): 119–120, fig. 107 (ill.).
  • Ramón Favela, <em>Diego Rivera: The Cubist Years</em>, exh. cat. (Phoenix Art Museum, 1984), 111, 123.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 34 (ill.).
  • Musée d'Orsay, <em>New York et l'art moderne: Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle (1905–1930)</em>, exh. cat. (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux; Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2004), 179, cat. 100 (ill.).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 60–64, cat. 10 (ill.).
  • <a href="https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/6/modern-series-shatter-rupture-break"><em>Modern Series: Shutter Rupture Break</em></a>, digital exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), cat. 49 (ill.).
  • James Rondeau, <em>Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), 96.

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