Installation shot of a show of portraiture

Artists by Artists

May 8–June 28, 2018

Mary-Anne Martin|Fine Art is pleased to announce our spring/summer exhibition Artists by Artists, featuring self-portraits, commissioned portraits, and portraits of artists by their contemporaries. Included are paintings, works on paper, and photographs from the gallery’s inventory, augmented by gracious loans from private collectors. On view are works by Lam, Kahlo, Carrington, Gerzso, Covarrubias, Rivera, Siqueiros, Orozco, Tamayo, Toledo, and Zenil, among others, and photographs by Nickolas Muray, Graciela Iturbide, and Dora Maar.

Works on View

A portrait of a woman holding an infant in her arms, painted in oil.
Wifredo Lam, Maternidad, 1930
A double portrait of a businessman and his son, painted in oil.
Diego Rivera, Portrait of John and Walter Stratton, 1942
A portrait of the sister of Frida Kahlo, painted by Diego Rivera.
Diego Rivera, Portrait of Cristina Kahlo, 1934
A self portrait of the mural painter Siqueiros, painted in oil.
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Siqueiros por Siqueiros, 1930
A painting in earth tones of a young Mexican woman tenderly holding her infant son on her lap
Diego Rivera, Delfina y Dimas, 1935
A painted self-portrait by Frida Kahlo showing her seated in a bright red dress in front of a gray brick wall. Sunflower petals surround her face and a bright red sun sets in the background.
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait Inside a Sunflower, 1954
A black and white photograph of Frida Kahlo.
Dora Maar, Portrait of Frida Kahlo, 1949
A black and white photograph of Frida Kahlo with her pet deer.
Nickolas Muray, Frida Kahlo and the Little Deer in Coyoacán, c. 1940
A self portrait by Jose Clemente Orozco, painted in oil.
José Clemente Orozco, Self-Portrait, 1948
A self portrait by Gunther Gerzso, painted in oil.
Gunther Gerzso, Self-Portrait,1945
A pencil drawing of the artist Gunther Gerzso by the artist Julio Castellanos.
Julio Castellanos, Portrait of Gunther Gerzso, 1940
A self portrait of Isabel De Obaldia, painted in oil.
Isabel De Obaldía, Self-Portrait, 1983
A portrait of a woman in a blue hat, painted in oil..
Carlos Orozco Romero, Portrait of Grusha, 1936
A portrait of the Mexican comedian Cantinflas, shown in dramatic lighting on a film set.
Rufino Tamayo, Cantinflas, 1948
A vibrantly colored caricature of Gracie Allen doing cat's cradle while talking to Gertrude Stein. In the background there is a window with a flowerpot.
Miguel Covarrubias, Impossible Interview Between Gracie Allen and Gertrude Stein, 1934
A caricature of the US President Franklin Roosevelt, depicted as a chef holding aloft a platter containing an eagle.
Miguel Covarrubias, Cover Illustration for Vanity Fair, November 1934
A photograph of a man wearing a white shirt playfully throwing a hairless dog in the air
Graciela Iturbide, Francisco Toledo and Xolo, 1987
A grid of eight portraits of the artist Francisco Toledo's wife, painted in watercolor and gold leaf, bearing the Zapotec title of each portrait.
Francisco Toledo, Eight Portraits of Elisa, c. 1968
An oil painting of a woman and her cat seated in front of an English country manor.
Leonora Carrington, Stella Snead and Her Cat, 1941
A painting of a Mexican day of the dead altar. A table is decorated with candles and family photographs line the wall. An archway over the table is hung with bread and fruit and big yellow flowers.
Elena Climent, Altar de muertos con ancestros, 1991 (More info)
A collaged self portrait by Nahum B. Zenil painted in the style of an ex voto.
Nahum B. Zenil, Ex voto, 1987 (Private Collection)