Armando Reverón

February 11–April 16, 2007 This retrospective exhibition introduces the work of the celebrated Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón (1889–1954) to international audiences. The exhibition is divided into sections of figurative and landscape painting, and also includes the life-sized dolls and many of the imitation practical objects that Reverón and his partner Juanita Ríos created to fill their secluded home in the small Caribbean village of Macuto. Early in his artistic career, Reverón painted coastal landscapes with monochromatic palettes imitative of the bright white light of the seashore. These highly tactile paintings are unique in early modernism, and seem to anticipate later monochromatic abstract art. Later, Reverón began to paint depictions of industrial activity in a nearby port. Reverón's figurative works seem to replicate the perceptual experience of puzzling out forms in shadowy interiors. Surprisingly, the subjects of these figure paintings were, increasingly, not human figures but Reverón's life-sized dolls. To view images of these artworks, please visit the Online Collection at moma.org/collection. MoMA Audio is available free of charge courtesy of Bloomberg.

Armando Reveron. Self-Portrait with Dolls/Autorretrato con muñecas. 1949

Pastel, charcoal, and chalk on paper on board 25 3/8 x 32 7/8" (64.5 x 83.5 cm) Collection Fundación Museos Nacionales, Caracas © 2007 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide

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Armando Reveron. Doll. 1940s

Synthetic fiber, textile, wire, cotton fiber, printed paper, jute, and pigment, 62 5/8 x 19 11/16" (159 x 50 cm). Collection Fundación Museos Nacionales, Caracas Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide

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Armando Reveron. Workshop at the Port of LaGuaira. 1945

Tempera on canvas 30 11/16 x 41 3/4" (78 x 106 cm) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide

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Armando Reveron. Old Man, Three Women, and a Child. 1948

Tempera and charcoal on canvas 37 5/8 x 32 1/16" (95.5 x 81.5 cm) Collection Fundación Museos Nacionales, Caracas © 2007 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide

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Armando Reveron. Light Behind My Arbor. 1926

Oil on canvas, 18 7/8 x 25 1/2" (48 x 64.7 cm) Collection Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas © 2007 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide

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Armando Reveron. Five Figures. 1939

Oil and tempera on canvas 64 1/8 x 7'5 9/16" (162.8 x 227.5 cm) Collection Fundación Museos Nacionales, Caracas © 2007 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide

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Introduction to the Exhibition: Armando Reverón

Special Exhibitions Armando Reverón February 11–April 16, 2007 Introduction to the exhibition Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide

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