Lot 5
  • 5

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 EUR
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Description

  • Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
  • Intérieur ou Composition
  • signé et daté

  • huile sur toile

  • 73 x 92 cm; 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.
  • Exécuté en 1951.

Provenance

Galerie Pierre, Paris
Maurice Rheims, Paris
Collection particulière, Londres
Galerie Semiha Hüber, Zürich
Acquis auprès de celle-ci en 1975

Exhibited

Torino, Galleria civica d'arte moderna, Museo Civico, Vieira da Silva, 1964, no.43 bis
Zürich, Galerie Semhia Huber, Dubuffet - Hundertwasser - Manessier - Mathieu - Vieira da Silva - Tapies - Skulpturen von César und Max Ernst, 1975; invitation, illustré en couleurs sur la couverture
Lausanne, Galerie Alice Pauli, Hommage à Vieira da Silva, 1992, cataloguing, p.11, no.3, illustré en couleurs (titré Composition aux drapeaux)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Elf Tijdenoten uit Paris, 1953; Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum; Den Haag, Gemeente Museum, catalogue, no.4, illustré

Literature

Yvon Taillandier, "Parmi les peintres dont on parle le plus, une femme: Vieira da Silva. La clé de sa vision: des allusions au monde moderne que l'on peut interpréter selon son imagination", Connaissance des Arts, no. 70, Paris, Décembre1957, p.155, illustré (titré Les Quais)
Guy Weelen, Vieira da Silva, Paris, 1960, illustré, no.277
René Berger, "Vieira da Silva ou la naissance d'un espace plastique", Connaissance de la Peinture, Tome VII, Lausanne, 1963, p.358, illustré
Guy Weelen & Jean-François Jaeger, Vieira da Silva - Catalogue Raisonné, Genève, 1994, p.155, no.793, illustré

Condition

This work is in very good condition. It is on its original canvas. The surface is intact. Under UV light, there are 5 small dots wich fluoresce in the upper left qudrant and 2 in the upper right quadrant.
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Catalogue Note

signed and dated; oil on canvas. Executed in 1951.

Vieira da Silva, 1948. © Denise Colomb