José de Almada Negreiros

[Bathers] (Painting for the café A Brasileira in Chiado, Lisbon)
1925

Gallery


Object details

Author(s)
José de Almada Negreiros (Cidade da Trindade, São Tomé e Príncipe, 1893 – Lisbon, Portugal, 1970)
Title
[Bathers] (Painting for the café A Brasileira in Chiado, Lisbon)
Date
1925
Materials and media
Canvas; Oil
Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height 131,00 cm; Width 166,00 cm
Inventory no.
83P58

Inscriptions

Type
Signature
Description
almada
Position
Lower left corner
Type
Date
Description
25
Position
Lower left corner

Incorporation

Type
Donation
Provenance
Jorge de Brito
Date
July 1983

Text

Through the initiative of the journalist Norberto de Araújo, from the newspaper Diário de Lisboa, and that of the architect José Pacheco, editor of Contemporânea magazine, the decoration of the Brasileira café in Chiado, on the occasion of its remodelling in 1924-1925, was offered to the hands of the modernists Eduardo Viana, António Soares, Jorge Barradas, Stuart Carvalhais, Bernardo Marques, José Pacheco and José de Almada Negreiros. Almada executed the first and the third decorative panels in the western wing: these Bathers and a Self-Portrait in a Group, with the artist sitting at one of the tables at the café. Though they were negatively received and harshly criticized by most of the art critics and by the frequenters of the Brasileira, the paintings transformed the café into the only place in the Portuguese capital where one could see modernist painting.

 

SAF

May 2010

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