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The painting “A Caipirinha”, by the artist Tarsila do Amaral, was auctioned this Thursday (17) for R $ 57.5 million and broke the record price paid for a work for public sale in Brazil, according to the Stock Exchange . Art of São Paulo.
The auction of the work lasted about 15 minutes and had a minimum bid of R $ 47.6 million. After 19 tenders, the work was sold for R $ 57.5 million, setting a new record for Brazilian art.
The previous record belonged to the painter Alberto da Veiga Guignard (1896-1962), whose canvas ‘Vaso de Flores’ was sold in 2015 for R $ 5.7 million, and to the painting “Modulated surface nº 4”, by Lygia Clark, who reached R $ 5.3 million in 2013.
Acquired by a Brazilian collector, ‘A Caipirinha’, from 1923, should remain in the country. Before the delivery to the new buyer, the public still has one last chance to see live the work of the Brazilian modernist painter, which will be on display until this Friday (18) at the São Paulo Stock Exchange. The gallery is located at Rua Rio Preto, 63 – Jardim Paulista, South Zone of the capital, and the visit takes place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Created by Tarsila in 1923, when she was living with the poet Oswald de Andrade in Paris, the director of the São Paulo Art Exchange auction house, Jones Bergamin, affirms that “A Caipirinha” can be considered “the first truly modern work of the parents. “.
The exhibition exhibits three original works, replicas of works and objects provided by the family of Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral – Photo: Patrícia Secco
Records of Tarsila do Amaral
Considered one of the central names in twentieth-century Brazilian painting, Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) had already broken other records abroad. In 1995, the Argentine businessman Eduardo Costantini acquired the painting “Abaporu” (1928) for 1.3 million dollars in New York.
“Abaporu” was a gift from Tarsila to her husband Oswald de Andrade and became the inaugural icon of the Brazilian Anthropophagic Movement, idealized by both in 1922. The work became part of the collection of the Museum of Latin Art in Buenos Aires ( Malba), founded by Costantini in 2001, becoming the main attraction of the collection.
In 2019, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMa) added to its collection the work “A Lua” (1928), by Tarsila herself, for a value that could have reached 20 million dollars. But this transaction was made directly between buyers, not in a public auction as happened in Brazil this Thursday, says the auction house that sold “A Caipirinha”.
