JOSÉ DE GUIMARÃES (Portugal, 1939). "Untitled" Belonging to the series Negreiros, 2011. Painted iron.

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  JOSÉ DE GUIMARÃES (Portugal, 1939). "Untitled" Belonging to the series Negreiros, 2011. Painted iron. Presents damage on the front and back. Signed on the base. Measurements: 120 x 86 x 21,5 cm. This sculpture representing the profile of a woman with African features, belongs to the series made by the author José de Guimarães in 2011, called Negreiros. In that series, which consisted of drawings, paintings, sculptures and monotypes, the artist explored the human body, especially that of the woman, conceived as a silhouette of voluptuous forms. A sculpture that is conceived as a shadow, where the specific features of the protagonist are not appreciated, although an identity raised from a collective point of view and not individual is intuited. José María Fernández Marques, known as José de Guimarães, is one of the most relevant contemporary artists of his native Portugal. During his youth he entered the military academy and began his engineering studies at the Technical University of Lisbon, where he enrolled in 1957. During this training he acquired knowledge that he later applied to his artistic works. However, a year later he began his artistic education, receiving painting classes from the artist Teresa Sousa and Gil Teixeira Lopes, as well as studying engraving at the Cooperative Society of Portuguese Engravers. In the 60's he decided to change his surname, and adopted the name of his native town as his sur-name. Between 1961 and 1966 he traveled around Europe, getting to know the work of old masters. Years later, in 1967, he moved to Angola, where he lived for seven years, during which he forged his own identity as an artist. Throughout his career he has received numerous awards, as well as participating in various solo and group exhibitions. He currently has numerous works in prestigious international collections, including the Wurth Museum in Germany, the Royal Museum of Modern Art in Brussels, the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo (Brazil), Carlton University in Ottawa, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Frederick Weisseman Museum in Los Angeles, and the Rockefeller Art Center in New York, among many others.
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