MARIA HELENA VIEIRA DA SILVA: In Collaboration with Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris & Waddington Custot, London

"PERSPECTIVE FASCINATES ME. NOT SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE, BUT THE KIND THAT IS FOUND, MADE OF RHYTHM, OF MUSIC."

Throughout Vieira da Silva's career, major institutions have recognized her as an important figure within the modernist canon. In 1937, Hilla Rebay acquired Composition (1936) for the collection of the future Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 1954, Dance (1938) entered the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, following its inclusion in the museum's group show XXVth Anniversary. The French State acquired several of her paintings during the course of her career, three of which hang in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Vieira da Silva's work is held in other distinguished collections throughout the world, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Tate, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Retrospectives of Vieira da Silva's work have been mounted at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, in 1958, traveling to Kunsthalle Bremen, and the Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal; Musée de Grenoble, France, in 1964; Museo Civico, Turin, in 1964; Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, in 1969-70; Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France, in 1971; Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, in 1977; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, in 1988, traveling to Grand Palais, Paris; and Fundación Juan March, Madrid, in 1991. Important exhibitions were presented at Fundação Árpád Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Lisbon in 2015, and at Musée d'Art moderne de Céret, in 2016. In 1994, Guy Weelen and Jean-François Jaeger's two volume catalogue raisonné and monograph of Vieira da Silva's work was published by Skira.

Above left: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva in Rio de Janeiro. Courtesy Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris © All rights reserved

Above right: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva painting Mémoire, in her studio by Yèvre le Châtel, Loiret, 1966. Courtesy Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris © Ursa Zangger