La fête (The Celebration)

Details

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992)
La fête (The Celebration)
signed 'Vieira da Silva' (lower right); titled 'la Fête' (on the stretcher)
oil on linen
13 x 16 1/8in. (33 x 41cm.)
Painted in 1951

Provenance

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris.
Galerie D. Benador, Geneva.
Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim (acquired from the above in 1956).
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 10 February 2005, lot 524.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

G. Weelen & J.-F. Jaeger (eds.), Vieira da Silva. Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva 1994, p. 154, no. 787 (illustrated, p. 154).

Exhibited

Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Vieira da Silva, 1958, p. 26, no. 40. This exhibition later travelled to Wuppertal-Eberfeld, Städtisches Museum and Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘A painting should have a heart, a nervous system, bones
and circulation. It should appear to be a person in its
movements. A painting is not an escape; it must be a
friend that speaks to us, that shows us the wealth inside
ourselves and our surroundings’
MARIA HELENA VIEIRA DA SILVA

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