Without Echo (Sans-écho) from Maria 1946

Maria MartinsWW-1946-M007154

1946·Etching, aquatint, and engraving from a portfolio with nine etchings (four with aquatint and engraving and one with drypoint) and one engraving·plate: 5 1/2 × 6 15/16" (13.9 × 17.6 cm); sheet: 13 3/16 × 10 1/4" (33.5 × 26 cm)

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Year: 1946
Medium: Etching, aquatint, and engraving from a portfolio with nine etchings (four with aquatint and engraving and one with drypoint) and one engraving
Dimensions: plate: 5 1/2 × 6 15/16" (13.9 × 17.6 cm); sheet: 13 3/16 × 10 1/4" (33.5 × 26 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Maria Martins

Artist

Maria Martins

Sculpture

Hailed as the “sculptor of the tropics,” Maria Martins was a pioneering sculptor whose hybrid, metamorphic works bridged Surrealism, myth, and the cultural plurality of the Americas. Born in 1894 in Campanha, Brazil, she drew on Amazonian cosmologies, Afro-Brazilian traditions and Indigenous folklore to forge a powerful personal symbolism that she translated into sinuous, creaturelike bronzes that blur the boundaries between human, vegetal and animal forms.

Campanha - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

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