LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and plaster on canvas

Measurements:

82.76 in. (210.20 cm.) (height) by 66.93 in. (170.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'A. Varejão "O Milagre dos "Peixes" 1991' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Rio de Janeiro, Galeria Thomas Cohn de Arte Contemporânea, Adriana Varejão, 1991. Amsterdam, Galerie Barbara Farber, Varejão: A China within Brazil, 1992 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). São Paulo, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, Adriana Varejão: Pintura Sutura, 1996 (illustrated in colour, p. 13). Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, III Salón Pirelli de Jóvenes Artistas, 1997-1998. Caracas, Espacios Unión, Territorio Común Miradas Diversas: Artista plâsticos latinoamericanos en el siglo XX, 2000. Brasilia, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Azulejõs e Charques, 2001 (illustrated in colour, p. 79). São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Adriana Varejão: Histórias às Margens (History at the Margins), 2012-2013, p. 18 (illustrated in colour, pp. 19, 96 and 135, and detail illustrated in colour, pp. 22 and 23). This exhibition later travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro.

Literature:

P. Herkenhoff and L. Neri (eds.), Adriana Varejão, São Paulo 2001, no. 79 (illustrated in colour, p. 13). I. Diegues, Adriana Varejão entre carnes e mares, Rio de Janeiro 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 159).

Provenance:

Galeria Thomas Cohn de Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993.