Beatriz Milhazes - Evening & Day Editions New York Wednesday, October 26, 2016 | Phillips

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  • Catalogue Essay

    ...I have always felt like an abstract painter. Abstraction has always been my reference. European and, later on, Brazilian modernism might both be references for my work. Especially one painter, Tarsila de Amaral, was very influential. She started in Brazil and mixed all the knowledge she acquired in Europe with her culture in Brazil. It was also what she did: first the real link was color. It is as if it is color what makes everything happen. I could not be geometric in the way of using cubes, squares, rectangles or triangles, my work cannot think only in terms of geometry and geometric shapes. I needed elements that I could develop and use like the shape of a flower representing some motif. But the shape of this flower is less important than its color; even if I had a good, beautiful shape of a flower, it would never work unless I had chosen the perfect color. (RES Art World/World Art, No. 2, May 2008, p. 4)

  • Artist Biography

    Beatriz Milhazes

    Brazilian • 1960

    Beatriz Milhazes is best known for her vibrantly colored yet calculated compositions. The artist has cited Baroque architecture, lace work, Carnival decoration and the flora of the Jardim Botanico in Rio de Janiero chief among her inspirations. Milhazes' artistic practice is akin to monotype or collage in that the artist first paints motifs directly onto transparent plastic sheets and later applies them to the canvas, leaving the plastic to dry. The superimposed image allows for overlapping and layering, resulting in a textured canvas and a distorted central focal point. While seemingly chaotic, Milhazes' compositions are perfectly balanced due to the artist's technically sophisticated use of geometric forms and chromatic color palate.

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Havai (Hawaii)

2003
Screenprint in colors, on Waterford paper, the full sheet.
S. 52 x 46 in. (132.1 x 116.8 cm)
Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 11/40 in pencil on the reverse (there were also 8 artist's proofs), published by Durham Press, Pennsylvania (with their blindstamp), framed.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $40,000

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2016