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An outstanding painter of the early 20th century, Timótheo da Costa was from a humble family from Rio de Janeiro. His employment at the Mint made him meet the director Enes de Souza, who was a patron and who helped him pay for the National School of Fine Arts. He was contemporary of big aesthetic changes: the departure of a classicist academicism to a liberating modernism. He traveled to Europe thanks to his talent, where he absorbed seventeenth-century influences (Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Rubens) and mixed them with his contemporaries. He died of mental illness in the Hospice of the Injured.

Details

  • Title: Menino com legumes
  • Creator: Arthur Timótheo da Costa
  • Date Created: 1917
  • Physical Dimensions: 145 x 50 cm
  • Type: Oil on canvas
  • Rights: Acervo da Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Doação da Associação dos Amigos da Pinacoteca do Estado, 1996
  • Year and death place name: 1923 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
  • Year and birth place name: 1882 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
  • Photographer : Isabella Matheus

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