Portrait of Maria Coussirat Camargo

"Paintings [accession numbers] P162 and P001 are two exercises from the same period. The portrait as a transcription of the outward appearance of the model, more drawing with a brush than painting, follows a procedure very similar to that of his teacher João Fahrion (1898–1970), and a figure and interior, which is a portrait that does more than depict the character and carefully transcribes the sitter’s interior surroundings. The careful depiction of the interior goes beyond the requirements of the portrait and suggests a concern with representation of surfaces. This vocation for frontality and representation on the surface of the canvas will become a distinctive feature of Iberê Camargo’s work, and will only decline in the final years of his career."
Paulo Gomes, Iberê e seu ateliê: as coisas, as pessoas e os lugares (Porto Alegre: Fundação Iberê Camargo, 2015), 153.