Paris hosts an unprecedented retrospective of Tarsila do Amaral at the Musée du Luxembourg

The Musée du Luxembourg in Paris presents the exhibition "Tarsila do Amaral: Painting modern Brazil," one of the most thorough retrospectives ever dedicated to the Brazilian modernist artist in Europe. 

This is the first retrospective exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg entirely dedicated to Tarsila do Amaral. Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition highlights the Pau-Brasil and Anthropophagic phases, while also revealing lesser-known aspects of the artist's production, such as the dreamlike gigantism of the 1940s and the nearly abstract geometry of her later compositions. 

In the 1920s, Tarsila divided her time between São Paulo and Paris, where she joined influential artistic circles and developed her approach to modern art. It was in the French capital that her works engaged with Cubism and Primitivism, the predominant movements of the period, consolidating the visual vocabulary that would be fundamental to the Brazilian Anthropophagic movement. 

Following its run in Paris, the exhibition will travel to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, where it will be on display from February 28 to June 8, 2025. 

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Tarsila do Amaral: Painting modern Brazil 
October 9, 2024, to February 2, 2025   
Musée du Luxembourg – 19 Rue de Vaugirard, 75006, Paris   
Monday, 10:30 AM to 10 PM; Tuesday to Sunday, 10:30 AM to 7 PM 
Tickets available on the Museum's website