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...show, organized by the American Federation of Arts, of 75 paintings from the collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. But then, Knoedler's frequently has good shows, for among the artists it represents are Henry Moore, Andrew Wyeth, Etienne Hajdu, Lynn Chadwick and the abstract painter Vieira da Silva. Knoedler's has been in business since 1846, and the elegant mansion it occupies lends an air of Old World gentility to the business transacted in damask-walled rooms upstairs. President E. Coe Kerr Jr. says he will deal in "everything in paintings and sculptures," provided they are good. Prices...
Thirty years ago, while visiting Marseille, Vieira da Silva saw the famous Pont Transbordeur. "It no longer exists," she says, "and I would not know exactly how to describe it without my brushes." Nevertheless she remembers seeing in it not just a bridge but space chopped and linked up by an extraordinarily beautiful network of lines. This simultaneous chopping and linking has been the dominant theme in her work ever since. At one time she built up her paintings almost entirely of small squares. Later the squares opened into lines that could be manipulated into an infinite number of arrangements...
Tutors & Masters. The daughter of a Portuguese economist who died when she was two, Maria Vieira da Silva was raised by her mother and an uncle, who provided her with a string of tutors and encouraged her to become an artist. "They were like children who had a doll that could be taught tricks," she remembers. She began studying drawing and painting in earnest at the age of eleven, took up sculpture at 16, moved to Paris at 19. There she studied under masters: Sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Painter Fernand Léger, Engraver Stanley Hayter...
...from dawn to midnight. Asked why, she simply shrugs. "One must." She is extraordinarily shy. even in middle age; the story goes that when a delegation of women admirers called on her one day, she fled to a closet and hid there until they went away. Not true, says Vieira da Silva: "If there had been a closet, I would have hidden in it. Instead there was a dirty corridor full of junk, and I lay down there on the floor...
...Patchwork. "For me," she says, "the art of painting is an adventure. When I paint a landscape or a seascape. I'm not very sure it's a landscape or a seascape. It's a thought form rather than a realistic form." This vagueness makes a Vieira da Silva painting something of an adventure for the viewer as well. He may see a distant city, a clump of ruins. a suggestion of a bridge, a wispy shoreline, or just a shredded bit of grill. But whatever he sees may not be there for long. When...