Marius de Zayas's own Mexican heritage might be partly responsible for his early interest in Diego Rivera. In October 1916, De Zayas offered his fellow countryman his first solo exhibition in the United States, juxtaposing about thirty of his paintings with a group of sculptures from ancient Mexico. Earlier that year, exemplifying the connections De Zayas drew between modernism and "ancient arts" (a category in which he included early American and African art), he had already included Rivera in a group exhibition of modern paintings, shown alongside three African works known only through minimal descriptions: "Mask Dahomey; Fetish Ogooue; Wood carving from Madagascar." This Cubist composition was featured with the African works in that first display. Its iconography alludes to both Rivera's Parisian life and his Mexican origins: a cigar box with a painted rendering of a Mexican farm scene is placed on a café table alongside a glass and a spoon intended for the consumption of absinthe.

Signature: Signed (lower left, stencil): D.M.R. Inscribed (on inside cover of tobacco box) BENITO JUA/

The artist; [Marius de Zayas, Modern Gallery, New York, 1916]; Alfred Stieglitz, New York (1916–49)

New York: Modern Gallery, February 12 - March 4, 1916.

New York: Modern Gallery, ¦Diego Rivera¦, October 1916.

Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ¦Painting and Drawing by artists of the Modern French School¦, 1920.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, ¦History of an American Alfred Stieglitz: "291" and After¦, September - October 1944, cat. no. 123.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, ¦Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection¦, June 10 - August 21, 1947, checklist no. 96.

Washington D.C.: Pan American Union, ¦Diego Rivera¦, 1947, cat. no. 2.

Chicago, Illinois. Art Institute of Chicago, February 2 - 29, 1948. ¦Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection¦. Checklist no. 38

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 15, 1970 - February 21, 1971, ill. in Cubist Epoch.

Mexico: Museo Tamayo, September - Novmeber 1983. ¦Diego Rivera¦, cat. no. 24, pg. 78 (not illustrated).

Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, March 10 - April 29, 1984; New York: IBM Gallery of Science and Art, June 13 - August 8, 1984; San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 27 - November 11, 1984; Mexico City, Mexico: Museum of Modern Art, December 6, 1984 - February 11, 1985: ¦Diego Rivera- The Cubist Years¦, cat. no. 36, p. 102, discussed p. 104, p. 111 (English title "The Café Terrace")

Australia: Australian National Gallery, March 1 - April 27, 1986. Queensland Art Gallery, May 7 - July 1, 1986. ¦20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art¦. Exh cat. p. 32 (ill. in color)

Seville: Estacion Plaza de Armas, August 22 - October 12, 1992. France: Musee International d'Art Moderne, November 10, 1992 - January 11, 1993. New York: Museum of Modern Art, June 2 -September 7, 1993. "Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century".

Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, February 21, 1999 - May 2, 1999. California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 30, 1999 - August 16, 1999. ¦Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution¦. Pg. 172, illus. in color, checklist number 37, pg. 409.

Champaign, Illinois: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavillion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ¦Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York¦, September 16, 2001 - January 6, 2002, cat. no.15; p. 83 (illus. in color).

Kyoto,Japan: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, September 14-November 24, 2002; Tokyo: The Bunkamura Museum of Art, December 7, 2000 - March 9, 2003, Picasso and the School of Paris, Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. plate 22, p. 66, illus. in color.

Washington,D.C.: National Gallery of Art, April 4-August 8, 2004; Mexico City: Museo de Arte Moderno, September 19, 2004-January 16, 2005;
Diego Rivera: Cubist Still Lifes and Portraits- Memory, Politics, Place.
unpaginated brochure, fig. 11; Mexican catalog: p. 95, illustrated in color.

Helfenstein, Josef. Editor. Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York. Exh. Cat. Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2001. Cat. No. 15, pg. 83 (illus. in color).

Levy, Florence N. Modern Masters at the Pennsylvania Academy in International Studio. 1920, vol. 71, p. XXXIII.