Bandeirinhas com mastro (No. 2133)

Details

Alfredo Volpi (Brazilian 1896-1988)
Bandeirinhas com mastro (No. 2133)
signed 'A Volpi' (on the reverse)
tempera on canvas
26 5/8 x 39¾ in. (67.6 x 101 cm.)
Painted late 1970s.

Provenance

Private collection, São Paulo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner (1985).

Literature

CD-ROM, O. Tavares de Araújo, Alfredo Volpi: Vida e obra, São Paulo, Logos Engenharia S.A/APK/Sociedade para Catalogação de Obra de Alfredo Volpi, 1997, no. 2133.

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Lot Essay

Only this perfectly rendered symbiosis that boasts a rigorous abstract composition involoving the lyrism of vivid, singing colors [. . .] is a first rate artistic event; to be true, it is an original creation within contemporary painting.

--Mario Pedrosa, as quoted in Olívio Tavares de Araújo, "Volpi 2006: neither subterfuge, nor strategy" in exhibition catalogue Volpi: a música da cor (São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2006), 258.

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