Ouro Preto: St. John's Eve
1942 · Oil on plywood
31 1/2 x 23 5/8" (80 x 60 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Alberto da Veiga Guignard
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None documented
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2
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7
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- • Post-Impressionism
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947
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The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943
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Alberto da Veiga Guignard was a Brazilian painter and educator whose work bridged European modernism and Brazilian landscape tradition. Active from the early 20th century, he developed a distinctive approach to color and form that influenced a generation of Brazilian artists through his teaching. His paintings, executed primarily in oil, combine post-impressionist sensibility with a deep engagement with tropical light and vegetation. Guignard remains a foundational figure in Brazilian modernism, central to the country's artistic development during the mid-20th century.
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