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Roberto Montenegro

Roberto Montenegro

Artist
WA-00028544
PrintmakingStreet Art
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
8
Assets Indexed
0
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (3)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943
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Twentieth Century Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942–1943
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Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940

Source Registry (3)

About

Why this artist matters now

Roberto Montenegro synthesized indigenous Mexican forms with European modernist sensibility across painting, muralism, and decorative design. Active throughout Mexico's revolutionary period and after, he shaped public art commissions that consolidated national cultural identity in the early twentieth century. His work bridged folk tradition and modernist abstraction, establishing a visual vocabulary distinct from both European precedent and contemporaneous Mexican muralism.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement
Street Art
Medium
Printmaking
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Museum Collections

Canonical record

Artworks (3)

Artwork sources (4)

3 published of 6 catalogued · 5 with image
  • MoMA
    1 publishedof 2 catalogued2 img
  • Art Institute Chicago
    1 published1 img
  • The Met
    1 published
  • + 1 more source · 2 catalogued, not yet published
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Images

Artsy artist portrait
Artsy
Seated Indian Woman with Two Flasks (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

4
Movements1
Street Art
Collections3
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtArt Institute of Chicago
Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group ExhibitionThe Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
New York · 1943
Group ExhibitionTwentieth Century Portraits
New York · 1942
Group ExhibitionTwenty Centuries of Mexican Art
New York · 1940