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Princess Turandot

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4. CBS News did an article on Tarsila do Amaral in 2018, when there was a show of her work at MoMA ...
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 06:18 PM
Aug 2022

The stolen painting is one of several images included, so I assume that the theft happened after that. This painting and another that they show are listed as being from a "Private collection"; the others were safe in museum collections. I don't particularly like the paintings of humans, but I like some of the others. (They were painted much earlier than you might think when looking at them.)

They note that her 'work inspired a Brazilian art movement called "anthropofagia," or cannibalism'.

Tarsila and the birth of Brazilian Modern Art

Glad they caught the crook-daughter. So much for filial piety!

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