The Musée du Luxembourg, in Paris, has just opened the exhibition Tarsila do Amaral: Painting Modern Brazil, a retrospective of the Brazilian visual artist whose patron is the President of France, Emmanuel Macron. According to the assessment of Folha de S. Paulo, the artist is enjoying unprecedented popularity, not only in Brazil but all over the world.
The exhibition is divided into six sections: Paris/São Paulo, passports to modernity; The invention of the Brazilian landscape; Primitivism and identity(ies); Cannibal Brazil; Working men and women; and New Landscapes, which include some of her most important works, such as Tarsila's self-portraits, “A caipirinha” (1923), “O touro” (1928) and “Urutu” (1928).
Around 150 artworks left Brazil for Europe, in a logistics operation carried out by Art Quality, a partner company of Clé Reserva Contemporânea. The canvases, drawings and documents were collected in the Southeast, Central-West and Northeast regions. Among the works is “Rio de Janeiro” (1923), lent to the exhibition by Casa Museu Ema Klabin, in São Paulo.
For anyone curious to know more details about the show, the exhibition guide is available for free download on the museum's website, in Portuguese.
