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Artworks
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
La Ville nocturne (Les Lumières de la ville), 1950Signed 'Vieira da Silva' and dated '50' (lower right)Oil on canvas81 by 100 cm (31⅞ by 39⅜ in.)On Loan64433© Maria Helena Vieira da SilvaFurther images
Painted in 1950.Painted in 1950.Provenance
Private Collection, Zurich
Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris
Private Collection, France–Portugal
Exhibitions
Bern, Kunsthalle, Vieira da Silva, Philipp Martin, Helen Marshall, 1953, no. 3 (listed with incorrect dimensions)
London, Parsons Gallery, Aspects of Contemporary French Painting, 1954, no. 52 (listed with incorrect dimensions)
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Vieira da Silva, 1991, no. 17, illustrated in color p. 35 (titled Las Luces de la Ciudad)
Lausanne, Galerie Alice Pauli, Hommage à Vieira da Silva, 1992, no. 2, illustrated p. 12
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny – Musée Maillol, Vieira da Silva, 1999, illustrated p. 71
Reggio Emilia, Palazzo Magnani, Vieira da Silva, Il labirinto del tempo, 2003
Lisbon, Fundação Árpád Szenes – Vieira da Silva, 10th Anniversary of the Foundation, 2004
Lisbon, Fundação Árpád Szenes – Vieira da Silva, A linha do espaço, 20th Anniversary of the Foundation, 2015, illustrated p. 73
London, Waddington Custot, Invisible Cities Architecture of Line, 2018
Paris, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger; London, Waddington Custot and New York, Di Donna Galleries, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 2019-20, illustrated in color pp. 54-55Literature
R. de Solier, Vieira da Silva, Paris, 1956, illustrated in color p. 9 (dated 1949)
D. Vallier, La peinture de Vieira da Silva : chemins d’approche, Paris, 1971, illustrated p. 101
A. Terrasse, L’Univers de Vieira da Silva, Paris, 1977, illustrated p. 84 (dated 1949)
G. Weelen and J.-F. Jaeger, Vieira da Silva Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1994, no. 0697, illustrated p. 137 & Vieira da Silva : Monographie, illustrated p. 296
