Catalogue
- Year
- 1943
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 75.8 × 226.7 × 8.3 cm (29 7/8 × 89 5/16 × 3 5/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Maria Martins
Artist
Sculpture
Hailed as the “sculptor of the tropics,” Maria Martins was a pioneering sculptor whose hybrid, metamorphic works bridged Surrealism, myth, and the cultural plurality of the Americas. Born in 1894 in Campanha, Brazil, she drew on Amazonian cosmologies, Afro-Brazilian traditions and Indigenous folklore to forge a powerful personal symbolism that she translated into sinuous, creaturelike bronzes that blur the boundaries between human, vegetal and animal forms.
Campanha - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Plate from Le Surréalisme en 1947
1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs, four etchings (two with aquatint), two woodcuts, one photogravure, and one ready-made object
Implacable Place (Place à l'implacable) from Maria 1946
1946 · Etching, aquatint, and engraving from a portfolio with nine etchings (four with aquatint and engraving and one with drypoint) and one engraving
The Road; The Shadow; Too Long, Too Narrow
1946 · Bronze and wood
Explanation I (Explication I) from Maria 1946
1946 · Etching from a portfolio with nine etchings (four with aquatint and engraving and one with drypoint) and one engraving
Like a Vine (Comme une liane) from Maria 1946
1946 · Etching, aquatint, and engraving from a portfolio with nine etchings (four with aquatint and engraving and one with drypoint) and one engraving
Explanation II (Explication II) from Maria 1946
1946 · Etching from a portfolio with nine etchings (four with aquatint and engraving and one with drypoint) and one engraving
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- Maria Martins
- Year
- 1943
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 75.8 × 226.7 × 8.3 cm (29 7/8 × 89 5/16 × 3 5/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1943-133479
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified