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© © Tarsila do Amaral Licenciamento e Empreendimentos S.A. / photo Museu Nacional de Belas Artes/Ibram, Rio de Janeiro / Jaime Acioli

Tarsila do Amaral

Painting modern Brazil
From October 9, 2024 to February 2, 2025
10:30 - 19:00

A central figure of Brazilian modernism, Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is one of Brazil’s best-known and best-loved artists. She created an original, evocative body of work, drawing on indigenous imagery and the modernising elements of a rapidly-transforming country.

Starting in the 1920s, moving between São Paulo and Paris, Tarsila do Amaral navigated between the avant-gardes of these two cultural capitals. Having constructed a “Brazilian” iconographic world in Paris, put to the test by the Cubism and Primitivism so in vogue in the French capital, her painting was the root of the “anthropophagic” movement advocating the "devouring" by Brazilians of foreign and colonial cultures as a form of both assimilation and resistance.

Brightly coloured landscapes, dreamlike compositions and abstract geometry confirm the power of a body of work firmly rooted in its time and always ready to renew itself. Her work also raises social, identity and racial issues and invites us to reconsider the divides between tradition and avant-garde, centres and outskirts, high culture and popular culture.

Widely exhibited in her native country, very few exhibitions have so far been dedicated to her work abroad. This first retrospective in France which gathers together more than 150 works aims to bridge this gap and takes us to the heart of modern Brazil and its cleavages.

Exhibition organised by GrandPalaisRmn

The exhibition will then be presented at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, from February 28 to June 8 2025.

Patrons and Sponsors

Chanel, Grand mécène du Musée du Luxembourg
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Opening hours

From 9 October 2024 to 5 February 2025, daily from 10.30am to 7pm, with late-night opening on Mondays until 10pm.

Early closing at 6pm on 24 and 31 December.

Full closing on 25 of December.

Prices

Single ticket: €14
Reduced ticket : 10 €
Special price for young people aged 16-25: €10 for 2 from Monday to Friday after 4pm
Free for under-16s and those on minimum social welfare, unlimited with the Sésame Escales pass.

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