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Horse of the Apocalypse
1950 · Lithograph
Sheet: 13 in. × 19 7/8 in. (33 × 50.5 cm)
Image: 9 13/16 × 14 3/16 in. (25 × 36 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Roberto Montenegro
Artist
PrintmakingStreet Art
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
6
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Publications Referenced
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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
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.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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