Museu Arpad Szénes - Vieira da Silva » postais enviados / sent postcards

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva  (Lisboa, 1908 - Paris, 1992), was a Portuguese-French abstractionist painter.


The Foundation  Arpad Szénes-Vieira da Silva has the purpose to disseminate and to study the work of Arpad Szenes and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, as well as other artists, intellectuals and friends,  as long as this study will prove to be relevant for the understanding of their personal and artistic journey.

Towards this end, was created the Museum and the Documentation and Research Centre, open to the public.

The Museum aims to exhibit the work of Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes, as well as other contemporary artists; to house and assure the accessibility to the Documentation and Research Centre, in order to support the study of the work of both artists; the promotion of exhibitions, conferences or events of any kind, about subjects that may contribute to the improvement of contemporary art and to the development of culture and artistic education; editing and publication of works in the field of History and Art of the 20^th century, …

Vieira da Silva choose herself the location for the future Museum and Foundation that would honor her work and to which she would give some of her and her husband works:  the former Silk Tissue Fabric near her home, in lisbon, inserted in the romantic Garden of Amoreiras, which still remains the name, since the 331 trees that would feed the silkworms were taken in 1863, the building reveled a simple and harmonious architecture, clean and linear that pleased the artist. 

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 MY SENT POSTCARDS: 

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
"Petit théatre de verdure", 1972
50,5x67 cm

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
"Jardim das Amoreiras et la Boule", 1936
26,3x31,3 cm
Private collection