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Premium Vincente DE REGO MONTEIRO (1899-1970)
The Cart Driver, 1925
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Vincente DE REGO MONTEIRO (1899-1970)
The Cart Driver, 1925
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See original version (French)
Lot no. 15
Description
Vincente DE REGO MONTEIRO (1899-1970)
The Cart Driver, 1925
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated and located lower right "V. De Rego-Monteiro-1925 Paris".
56 x 72 cm
Bibliography :
- Work reproduced in a press article reporting on the exhibition "Les arts en Amérique Latine" in Recife in 1957, author Géo-Charles (will be attached to the painting).
A Brazilian Modernist
Rego Monteiro belonged to the Brazilian Modernist movement, made up of artists who shared a fascination with the Parisian avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of this movement, and particularly admired the Cubists, Léger, Purism and the Surrealists. The watercolour we are presenting in this sale shows that Fernand Léger's influence continued into the 1950s. A painter, sculptor, draughtsman, poet, perfectly bilingual (French and Brazilian) and teacher, he was also a remarkable and renowned poet. He was awarded the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1960, the highest prize for French poetry.
Between Paris and Brazil
Born in Recife, his artistic career was decided in Paris, where his family settled in 1911. He studied painting and sculpture at the Académie Julian during the creative explosion of the Ballets Russes and Cubism. After 1918, he became one of the colts in the cubist "stable" of Léonce Rosenberg, who ran the Galerie l'Effort Moderne. After spending most of the 1920s in Paris, Vincente returned to Brazil in 1930, accompanied by the journalist Géo-Charles. There they organised a major international exhibition of modern art, consisting mainly of works supplied by gallery owner Léonce Rosenberg. The "École de Paris au Brésil" exhibition opened in 1930 at the Teatro Santa Isabel in Recife and was a great success. The exhibition subsequently travelled to Rio and Sao Paulo. It brought together avant-garde works by numerous cubists, expressionists, surrealists, abstract artists and other renowned artists associated with the École de Paris. Géo-Charles, a friend and unconditional supporter of the artist, is a French poet and writer, and founder of the Revue Montparnasse, which specialises in the arts and literature.
Le Charretier, 1925
Our painting was reproduced in a press article written by Géo-Charles, reporting on an exhibition on the arts in Latin America, in particular the works of the Monteiro family (Recife, 1957).
Le Charretier illustrates Rego Monteiro's cubism, with its emphasis on volumetry, which coexists with a simplification of drawing and an economy of colour.
simplification of the design and an economy of colour. The reduced colour scheme is typical, limited to ochres, rusts and greys. These colours evoke the materiality of the earth and are present in the world of the indigenous peoples so dear to the painter's imagination (cf. Sylvia Werveck). The strange atmosphere, created by the movement of a horse-drawn cart in front of a modern building, the silent atmosphere and the architecture with its one-way windows, give off a feeling of "disquieting strangeness". Here, too, De Rego Monteiro incorporates the innovations of European metaphysical painting. This powerful image, highly emblematic of Monteiro's art, sums up the alliance between modern plastic art and his South American cultural heritage.
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Modern & Contemporary Art - Léon Lef Forster Collection - Design
75009 Paris - France
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