
Plate from Le Surréalisme en 1947
Catalogue
- Year
- 1947
- Dimensions
- plate: 6 7/8 × 5 1/2" (17.4 × 14 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 8" (24 × 20.3 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Maria Martins
Artist

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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Record
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- Maria Martins
- Year
- 1947
- Dimensions
- plate: 6 7/8 × 5 1/2" (17.4 × 14 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 8" (24 × 20.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1947-M013022
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





