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Maria Elena VIEIRA DA SILVA (1908-1992)
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Maria Elena VIEIRA DA SILVA (1908-1992)
Tempera and charcoal on paper, signed and dated lower right
193/4 x 26 in.
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was born 1908 in Lisbon. She lost her father at the age of two and forged a very close bond with her mother, who supported her artistic aspirations.
Twenty years later, da Silva moved to Paris, where she studied painting at Fernand Léger's Academy and sculpture with Bourdelle. In 1932 she attended Bissière's studio and learned many of her painting's features from him. Like Bissière, she found inspiration in Cubism's simple forms and brown palette.
Yet her style was very personal and inspired by the avant-garde, particularly Cézanne. Considered the head of the abstract landscape movement, her works are an interpretation of reality, made up of a kind of patchwork of shapes and colours.
"Everything amazes me. I paint my amazement, which is at the same time wonder, terror, laughter."
Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva
Tempera and charcoal on paper, signed and dated lower right
193/4 x 26 in.
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was born 1908 in Lisbon. She lost her father at the age of two and forged a very close bond with her mother, who supported her artistic aspirations.
Twenty years later, da Silva moved to Paris, where she studied painting at Fernand Léger's Academy and sculpture with Bourdelle. In 1932 she attended Bissière's studio and learned many of her painting's features from him. Like Bissière, she found inspiration in Cubism's simple forms and brown palette.
Yet her style was very personal and inspired by the avant-garde, particularly Cézanne. Considered the head of the abstract landscape movement, her works are an interpretation of reality, made up of a kind of patchwork of shapes and colours.
"Everything amazes me. I paint my amazement, which is at the same time wonder, terror, laughter."
Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva