LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

31.89 in. (81.00 cm.) (height) by 39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Vieira da Silva 44' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Vieira da Silva, 1958, p. 22, no. 19. This exhibition later travelled to Wuppertal, Kunst-und Museumverein and Bremen, Kunstverein. Grenoble, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Vieira da Silva, 1964, p. 15, no. 9. Turin, Galleria civica d'arte Moderna, Vieira da Silva, 1964, p. 44, no. 11 (illustrated, p. 45). Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Vieira da Silva, 1970, no. 39 (illustrated, p. 81). Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Vieira da Silva: agora, 2012-2013 (illustrated in color, unpaged).

Literature:

J. Russell, ‘An Artist in the Family, Vieira da Silva’, in Art in America, vol. 54, no. 2, March-April 1966, p. 63. G. Bonnefoi, ‘L’espace et ses mirages’, in Connaissance des Arts, no. 209, June 1969, p. 116. F. Grade, ‘Vieira da Silva e a outra’, in O Século Ilustrado, no. 1696, 1970 (illustrated p. 25). F. Pernes, ‘Vieira da Silva pintor de Portugal e de Paris’, in Vida Mundial, no. 1623, July 1970, p. 31 (incorrectly dated 1943). D. Vallier, Vieira da Silva, Geneva 1971, p. 284 (illustrated, pp. 54 and 83). N. A. Aguilar, ‘Vieira da Silva no Brasil’, in Colóquio artes, no. 27, April 1976 (illustrated, p. 11). A. Terrasse, L’Univers de Vieira da Silva, Paris 1977, pp. 50 and 82. J. Lassaigne and G. Weelen, Vieira da Silva, Paris 1978, p. 338, no. 162 (illustrated). D. Vallier, Vieira da Silva: Chemins d’approche, Paris 1982, p. 70. J. Lassaigne and G. Weelen, Vieira da Silva, Barcelona 1987, p. 360, no. 162 (illustrated p. 136). J. Sommer Ribeiro, ‘O percurso de Vieira da Silva’ in Vieira da Silva nas Colecções portuguesas, São Paulo 1987, p. 9. C. Roy, Vieira da Silva, Barcelona 1989, p. 17. J. Sommer Ribeiro, ‘Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’, in Vieira da Silva dans les collections portugaises, exh. cat., Brussels, Muse´e d'Art Moderne, 1991, p. 24. G. Weelen and J.F. Jaeger, Vieira da Silva Catalogue Raisonne´, Geneva 1994, p. 87, no. 426 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Galerie Pierre, Paris. Collection of Simone Collinet, Paris. Galerie Furstenberg, Paris. Collection of Jorge de Brito, Lisbon. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.