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Tarsila do Amaral was born in 1886 into a wealthy bourgeois family of coffee producers in the São Paulo region and grew up there learning French.
She followed the academic teaching of Pedro Alexandrino Borges before leaving, at the age of 30, for Paris to enroll at the Académie Julian with famous professors such as Fernand Léger, Albert Gleizes and André Lhote.Adored in Brazil as a central figure of her country’s modernism, Tarsila do Amaral created, from the 1920s, an original body of work that drew on the indigenous imagination of a country in full transformation.
At the origin of the metaphorical anthropophagic movement, her painting evolved between São Paulo and Paris at the time of cubism and primitivism in vogue in the French capital.
Tarsila do Amaral
Study based on illustrations for the magazine Jaraguá Around 1950 Gouache and ink on paper 30 x 22 cm
Private collection
© Photo Falcão Júnior
© Tarsila do Amaral Licenciamento e Empreendimentos S.A
