Her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London
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Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was a Portuguese abstract painter. She was considered a leading member of the European abstract expressionism movement known as Art Informel. Her works feature complex interiors and city views using lines that explore space and perspective. She also worked in tapestry and stained glass.
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culture · Portuguese-French artist (1908–1992) · painter · stained-glass artist · graphic artist · artist · visual artist · also Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Vieira da Silva, Maria Helena Da Silva, Marie-Hélène Vieira da Silva, Vieira Da Silva, Viera da Silva
Born 13 June 1908 · Died 6 March 1992 · Q242399
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2002· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
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1992· 1 entry
Died 1992-03-06.
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1991· 1 entry
The Fundación Juan March, Madrid exhibited Vieira da Silva, the first retrospective of Vieira da Silva’s work in Spain
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1988· 2 entries
The new Cidade Universitária subway station of Lisbon with azulejo panels
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In honor of her 80th birthday, the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon and the Grand Palais in Paris had major retrospectives of her work
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1974· 1 entry
Made the painting A Library Burning which uses many of the elements from that window
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1943· 1 entry
Vieira da Silva exhibited in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York
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1939· 1 entry
Vieira da Silva moved to Portugal from France
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1929· 1 entry
When he was attending the Académie de la Grande Chaumière there
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1928· 1 entry
Vieira da Silva left Lisbon to study sculpture in Paris
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-06-13.
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