Un Été de Sel

Vieira da Silva

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  • Image Size: 29x20,5 cm
  • Total Size: 47,5x35 cm
  • 100 units
  • Ref.: EX0453

The graphic work of Vieira da Silva, from 1933 to 1991, brought together in an exhibition at the Palacio Galveias in Lisbon, showed how much the illustrious artist dedicated the same care and dedication to this form of expression. refinement involved in their originals, whose aesthetics they perfectly reflect, only adding to them, due to the multiple dimension, the ability to communicate to a wider audience. The poet António Ramos Rosa said about Maria Helena’s work: “the infinite opening of the world in the light of its silence”, a way of designating the passage, in her universe, from the real to the imaginary, from the immanent to the transcendent, the true vocation of art, which as a whole, his art fulfills. In the delicate and black calligraphy of the 1989 engraving, currently presented, with the title “Un Eté of Sel”, the dark web of signs still seems to veil this essential light, the secret threshold of life. Vieira da Silva, exponent of the Paris School, was born in Portugal in 1908 and died in France, where he settled at the age of 20, shortly after the great exhibition that the Serralves Foundation dedicated to him and her husband Arpad Szènes in 1989. Living in Portugal in 1935 and 1936, Lisbon inspired important works in this period in a geometric style and full of allusions to a reality fueled by poetry. It remains in Brazil in 1940 to 1947, enriching your reflection on the space that is organized into large extensions driven by the square, subtle explosions that evoke the tiles of your home country. The full international recognition of a painting that is progressively moving towards a defining lightness and detachment is no longer necessary. not from the visible, but from the invisible, threshold of transcendence and the absolute.

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Vieira da Silva

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was born on June 13, 1908, in Lisbon. 

Very early on, he awakened to music and painting, and at the age of eleven he began studying piano and singing at home, drawing and painting in the studios of the painter Emília dos Santos Braga and the painter Armando de Lucena, and modeling with the sculptor Rogério de Andrade. Shortly afterwards, she entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon and, also motivated by sculpture, attended the Anatomy course, taught by professor Henrique Vilhena, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, in 1926.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva traveled to Italy, where she was inspired by the works of the Sienese school, created illustrations for children's books, participated in the Salon d'Automne and at the Salon des Surindépendants (1931) in Paris, he joined, together with Árpád, the classes of the French painter Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson, he met gallerist Jeanne Bucher, who began to represent his artistic work,[6] he sold his first painting to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

She established herself as a painter in Paris, where she met her husband Arpad Szenes, and became one of the most celebrated abstract artists in post-war Europe, with her original geometric compositions.

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After a period of exile in Brazil during World War II, she was granted French citizenship, a country that welcomed her for the rest of her life and where she obtained the greatest artistic awards ;national stics. His career would also be associated with important public art commissions, scenography, tapestry, stained glass and illustration works. The entire body of work has been the subject of repeated retrospectives and is on display all over the world.

He passed away at the age of 83, on March 6, 1992, in Paris, France.

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