Three Nudes
1957 · Ink on paper
29 1/2 x 39 3/8" (74.9 x 100.0 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Flávio de R. Carvalho
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Latin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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Portraits from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1957–1958
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Flávio de R. Carvalho was a Brazilian artist, architect, and theorist working across painting, sculpture, performance, and experimental design from the early twentieth century until his death in 1973. He was a founder of the São Paulo modernist movement and developed an idiosyncratic practice that merged constructivist and surrealist impulses with Brazilian vernacular culture. Carvalho's work encompassed theatrical interventions, large-scale murals, and philosophical writings on perception and urbanism. His formal language remained distinctly anti-academic, favoring distorted figuration and spatial disruption as tools for social inquiry.
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New York, US
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