St. John's Day
1942 · Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 31 3/4" (64.8 x 80.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Heitor dos Prazeres
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Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
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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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Heitor dos Prazeres was a Brazilian painter whose figurative works depicted urban and rural scenes of daily life with an emphasis on narrative and social observation. Active in the postwar period, he developed a distinctive approach to representing popular culture and the social fabric of Brazilian communities. His practice centered on the direct observation of ordinary subjects rendered with attention to human gesture and domestic detail.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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