Representative work by Maria Martins
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Maria Martins

1894–1973 · Brazilian

  • Atelier 17

Maria Martins developed a highly distinctive sculptural language in bronze around tropical flora, myth, eroticism and metamorphosis. Working internationally in the 1940s, she became closely connected to Surrealist circles in New York and Paris.

Sculpture; writing

Major Works

  • 1946The Impossible III
  • 1947However
  • 1954–55A Soma de Nossos Dias
  • 1941Yara
  • 1943Macumba
  • 1942Aiokâ
  • 1943Cobra Grande
  • 1944Glèbe-ailes
  • 1940sOitava Véu
  • 1940sSaudade

Interviews & Writing

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