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São Paulo / Brazil · 2019

Tarsila Popular

Modernism through local experience

The exhibition story

MASP’s exhibition reconsidered Tarsila do Amaral through popular subjects, characters and narratives in her work.

Presented within MASP’s 2019 programme dedicated to women artists and feminist histories, the exhibition brought together 92 works. The institutional account questions readings that privilege only European artistic genealogies.

Artists in the record

Tarsila do Amaral

Publication trail

Tarsila Popular

Catalogue reference; see the source institution for access and publication details. No full catalogue is reproduced here.

Reading the record

The source text is in Portuguese; the summary here is in English.