Alberto da Veiga Guignard
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Portrait with fan
Signed Guignard and dated 1937. Also signed Guignard verso. Panel 72 x 59 cm.
Saleroom notice
Acquired in Brazil in the 1930's by the artist Erik Skårman.
Subsequently by inheritance to present owner.
Litterature: Svenska hem i ord och bilder - Gotlands-nummer, no. 33, 1945, illustrated in interior photo from the home of artist Erik Skårman and his wife.
Provenance
Acquired in Brazil in the 1930's by the artist Erik Skårman.
Subsequently by inheritance to present owner.
Literature
Svenska hem i ord och bilder - Gotlands-nummer, no. 33, 1945, illustrated in interior photo from the home of artist Erik Skårman and his wife.
More information
When Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo arranged the exhibition ”Guignard – The Visual Memory of Modern Brazil” (7 July – 11 September, 2015) the artist was presented like this:
MAM presents a retrospective of the work of Alberto da Veiga Guignard Curated by Paulo Sérgio Duarte, the exhibition features some 80 works by one of the most highly-valued painters in Brazilian modernism.
Portraits, landscapes and still-lifes are three of the genres represented in Guignard – The Visual Memory of Modern Brazil, an exhibition of the work of Alberto da Veiga Guignard, one of Brazil’s leading 20th -century painters, to be held in the Great Room of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM) between July 7 and September 11. Curated by Paulo Sérgio Duarte, the exhibition aims to give the general public a didactic introduction to this painter and draftsman, best-known for his landscape paintings, and to underscore his legacy and contribution to Brazilian modern art.