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Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
"The unbelieveable is believeable, just take a good look."
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"Coup de coeur" by Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
Composition en gris foncé - Février 2023
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Stamp by Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Le pressentiment de sa proche fin inspireront à Vieira da Silva quelques peintures bouleversantes. Née à Lisbonne le 13 juin 1908, Helena Vieira da Silva s’éteint à Paris, le 6 mars 1992. Ses obsèques auront lieu au cimetière de Yèvre-le-Chatel (Loiret) où reposent sa mère et Arpad Szenes (mort à Paris le 16 janvier 1985). Le couple possédait une maison dans ce village, "La Maréchalerie", dans laquelle il passait plusieurs mois par an depuis son acquisition en 1960. En hommage à sa mémoire, à celle de son mari, nous déposons avec respect un couple de roses sur cette dernière qui les unit.
"Je l'ai remarquée immédiatement. J'ai eu le coup de foudre pour le regard de ma femme; il était différent de tous les autres." - Arpad Szenes
"La vision frontale de Vieira da Silva est celle d'un espace construit en fonction de l'imaginaire, point de fuite de la perspective et qui est celui du souvenir, pure projection délestée du réel." - Dora Vallier
"Je cherche à voir le monde d’un autre œil." - Vieira da Silva
"Je suis venue à Paris pour des raisons intellectuelles, en dehors de toute raison pratique... Du port de Lisbonne on partait autrefois pour découvrir le monde et ensuite le peupler. A Paris, on le découvre sur place à chaque instant par des moyens spirituels." - Vieira da Silva
"Sans une bonne fée, un magicien et un solide ange gardien, rien à faire; il faut au moins une trinité pour faire aimer un pauvre peintre !" - Vieira da Silva
"Il faut vivre longtemps pour avoir le temps de faire beaucoup de bêtises et quelques chefs-d'oeuvre. " - Arpad Szenes
Notes of biography
Maria Elena Vieira da Silva was born in Lisbon (Portugal) in 1908 in a wealthy family. Her father disappeared when she was only 2 years old. Her mother supported her early artistic-interest. She drew from the age of eleven, and sculpted at 16 years old. She made numerous journeys with her family, these journeys awoke her to the art.
The girl joined, naturally, Paris when she was twenty years old. At first she was Bourdelle and Despiau’s student in the Academy La Grande Chaumière.. She became Dufresne, Waroquier and Friesz’s student, frequented the Academy of Léger and the Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17. She got married to the Hungarian painter Arpad Szenes.
In 1932, perfectionist, she frequented the Roger Bissière Atelier in the Academy Ranson. This last one introduced her to Jeanne Bucher, the famous trader of this time.
With the second world war, the couple settled down in Portugal, then in Brazil. Post-war-years, Vieira da Silva participated in huge collective exhibitions in Paris. The Gallery Jeanne Bucher organized her first personal exhibition in 1933 and supported her during all her artistic life, presenting regularly her work.
Vieira da Silva was exposed in the biggest museums of the world, she painted, she engraved, she created canvases for the tapestry, she illustrated poets. In 1931, she lived in Marseille, a seemingly insignificant experience but which represented, doubtless, the genesis of her work: drawing, then painting a transfer bridge (today disappeared), the metal structures of this one, cutting sky and sea fragments revealed her a whole architecture of the space, fantastic architecture, labyrinth architecture, poetic architecture which became her work-foundation. The Brazilian period (1940-1947) was the blooming of her art.
Naturalized French in 1956, she died in Paris in 1992.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Les estampes, 1929-1976 », Yves Rivière, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, 1977
*« Obra grafica, 1933-1991 », G. Schreiner, Ed. Convento de S.Francisco, Camara Municipal de Tomar, 1993
*« Peintures, aquarelles, gouaches, temperas, dessins et vitraux », Weelen-Jaeger, Ed. Skira, 1994
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Vieira da Silva », Pierre Descargues, Ed. P.L.F, Paris, 1949
- « Vieira da Silva », R. de Solier, Musée de Poche, G. Fall Ed., Paris, 1956
- « Vieira da Silva », Dora Vallier, Weber Ed., Paris, 1971
- « Vieira da Silva », Guy Weelen, Ed. Hazan, Paris, 1973
- « L'Univers de Vieira da Silva », Antoine Terrasse, Ed. Henri Scrépel, 1977
- « Vieira da Silva », Jacques Lassaigne, Ed. Cercle d'Art, 1978
- « Chemins d'approche », Dora Vallier, Ed. Galilée, 1982
- « Vieira da Silva », Henri Scrépel, Guy Weelen et J. Lassaigne, Ed. Cercle d'Art, 1992
- « Maria Elena Vieira da Silva », Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris, 1999
- « M. E. Vieira da Silva : l'Espace en jeu », N. Gallissot et autres, Ed. Somogy, 2016
To read from the artist :
- « L'Atelier de Vieira da Silva », Michel Mitrani (court métrage), 1968
- « Entretiens avec M. E. Vieira da Silva et A. Szenes », A. Philipe, Ed. Gallimard, 1978
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Stamp by Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist's handwritten document
Document in reproduction / This document is not for sale
+ Listen
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+ Watch
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Le pressentiment de sa proche fin inspireront à Vieira da Silva quelques peintures bouleversantes. Née à Lisbonne le 13 juin 1908, Helena Vieira da Silva s’éteint à Paris, le 6 mars 1992. Ses obsèques auront lieu au cimetière de Yèvre-le-Chatel (Loiret) où reposent sa mère et Arpad Szenes (mort à Paris le 16 janvier 1985). Le couple possédait une maison dans ce village, "La Maréchalerie", dans laquelle il passait plusieurs mois par an depuis son acquisition en 1960. En hommage à sa mémoire, à celle de son mari, nous déposons avec respect un couple de roses sur cette dernière qui les unit.
"Je l'ai remarquée immédiatement. J'ai eu le coup de foudre pour le regard de ma femme; il était différent de tous les autres." - Arpad Szenes
"La vision frontale de Vieira da Silva est celle d'un espace construit en fonction de l'imaginaire, point de fuite de la perspective et qui est celui du souvenir, pure projection délestée du réel." - Dora Vallier
"Je cherche à voir le monde d’un autre œil." - Vieira da Silva
"Je suis venue à Paris pour des raisons intellectuelles, en dehors de toute raison pratique... Du port de Lisbonne on partait autrefois pour découvrir le monde et ensuite le peupler. A Paris, on le découvre sur place à chaque instant par des moyens spirituels." - Vieira da Silva
"Sans une bonne fée, un magicien et un solide ange gardien, rien à faire; il faut au moins une trinité pour faire aimer un pauvre peintre !" - Vieira da Silva
"Il faut vivre longtemps pour avoir le temps de faire beaucoup de bêtises et quelques chefs-d'oeuvre. " - Arpad Szenes
Art movements
+ SCHOOL OF PARIS / 1945-1960 / Jean Degottex, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
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