Tarsila Do Amaral, Sol Poniente (Setting Sun), 2009 Exhibition Poster

26 5/8 x 38 5/8 in
67.6 x 98 cm

Exhibition poster published by Juan March Foundation in Madrid, Spain (6 February to 3 May 2009).

The 2009 exhibition was the first solo presentation and one of the most important to be held in Europe on the work of the Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral (Capivari, São Paolo, 1886 – São Paolo, 1973). For Juan Manuel Bonet, curator of the exhibition, Tarsila do Amaral is: “one of the leading figures of a still little known avant-garde movement, but one whose principal innovations are among the most important South American contributions to modern culture.”

The exhibition focused on the work of the artist’s dazzling middle period in the 1920s, when she lived between São Paolo and Paris, with a symbolic conclusion in Moscow (to where she travelled in 1931). It emphasises her connections with the avant-garde in Paris, her training with painters such as André Lhote and Fernand Léger, and her friendship with some of the French avant-garde poets, in particular Blaise Cendrars.