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Lot 8
MARIA HELENA VIEIRA DA SILVA (1908-1992)
Cité ouvrière
Closed5 December 2013
Price Realised
EUR 337,500
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Specialist note
'[Dans Cité ouvrière], les carreaux s'arrondissent, comme érodés. Ici, dans des rythmes horizontaux et verticaux marqués par des droites, le module répété sur toute la surface ressemble plus à des galets naturels qu'à des briques ou des pavés manufacturés. L'effet est de détente. La définition spatiale n'en subit pas de modification notoire: la profondeur est affaire de couleur et de lumière.'
'[In Cité Ouvrière], the tiles are rounded, as if eroded. Here, within the horizontal and vertical areas marked out by straight lines, the module repeated over the entire surface looks more like river stones than manufactured bricks or paving stones. The effect is one of relaxation. The spatial definition is not noticeably affected by this: the depth is produced by colour and light.'
Diane Daval Béran in G. Weelen et J.-F. Jaeger, Vieira da Silva - Monographie, Genève, 1993, p. 230.
'[In Cité Ouvrière], the tiles are rounded, as if eroded. Here, within the horizontal and vertical areas marked out by straight lines, the module repeated over the entire surface looks more like river stones than manufactured bricks or paving stones. The effect is one of relaxation. The spatial definition is not noticeably affected by this: the depth is produced by colour and light.'
Diane Daval Béran in G. Weelen et J.-F. Jaeger, Vieira da Silva - Monographie, Genève, 1993, p. 230.