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La fête
Details
Maria Elena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992)
La fête
signed 'Vieira da Silva' (lower right); inscribed 'La fête' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
12 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (32.7 x 40.5 cm.)
Painted in 1951
La fête
signed 'Vieira da Silva' (lower right); inscribed 'La fête' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
12 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (32.7 x 40.5 cm.)
Painted in 1951
Provenance
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris.
Galerie D. Benador, Geneva.
Acquired from the above by Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim on 6 April 1956.
Galerie D. Benador, Geneva.
Acquired from the above by Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim on 6 April 1956.
Literature
G. Weelen & J.F. Jaeger, Vieira Da Silva, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1994, no. 787 (illustrated p. 154).
Exhibited
Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Maria Vieira da Silva, 1958, no. 40; this show later travelled to Wuppertal-Eberfeld, Städtisches Museum and Zurich, Kunsthaus.
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