Salamanca do Jarau

In 1960, Iberê produced 8 panels based on the legend of Salamanca do Jarau, which he gave to Luiz Aranha, his friend and patron from the start of his artistic career. The legend of Salamanca do Jarau is included in the book Lendas do Sul (Legends of the South), written by João Simões Lopes Neto and published in 1913.
Teiniaguá is a Moorish princess who has been turned into a lizard by the Red Devil of the Indians, Anhangá-Pitã. With the body of a lizard (salamander) and the head of ruby-coloured precious stone, the princess enchants men. She is fated to live in a lake at Cerro do Jarau in the south of Brazil.
Salamanca do Jarau tells of this person as part of the traditional Spanish legend, about the Iberian influence in the colonisation of Rio Grande do Sul and its neighbours Argentina and Uruguay, and the origin of the Gaucho people.

Work that does not belong to the collection of the Iberê Camargo Foundation. It was presented at the "Iberê Camargo: IN THE DRAMA" exhibition, on view from May 18 to December 20, 2017.