- 1957
- Canvas
- Oil
- Inv. 83P62
José de Almada Negreiros
Relação 9/10 [9/10 Relation]
This work is part of a series composed by four geometrically-abstract paintings, all belonging to the collection of the CAM, which establish, theoretically, a numerical unity: Porta da Harmonia [Door of Harmony], O Ponto de Bauhütte [The Bauhütte Point], Quadrante I [Quadrant I] e Relação 9/10 [9/10 Relation] (according to the order intended by the author). Exhibited in the I Visual Arts Exhibition of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, National Society of the Fine Arts, 1957), the jury awarded these paintings outside of the normal competition (won by Eduardo Viana). The poetress Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen defended the justice of this award in a newspaper piece about the exhibition:
‘It is profoundly just that Almada’s paintings were given an out-of-competition award, because, to some extent, they actually are on a different level as the other works exhibited. They do no longer partake of the existential, but of the essential, of the absolute and the abstract. That’s why I had the impression these paintings presided over the entire exhibition. Because they are sheer synthesis, the very law of proportion and harmony which underlies all things that are certain. And this is why such a profound sense of equilibrium, clarification and serenity arises from them. They immediately evoke Greece. Being one of the most modern works from the exhibition, it is also the one most connected to the art of Antiquity. This explains what I hold to be tradition when I say that in the Gulbenkian exhibition tradition was preferred to academism.’*
Sara Afonso Ferreira
May 2010
* Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen, ‘Modernidade e tradição na exposição Gulbenkian’, in Diário Popular, January 9, 1958, p. 4 and 6.
Type | Value | Unit | Section |
Height | 60 | cm | |
Width | 60 | cm |
Type | signature and date |
Type | Acquisition |
Almada Negreiros |
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, 1984 |
Catálogo de exposição |
Almada |
Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, 1984 |
Catálogo de exposição |
Almada Negreiros - obra plástica |
Lisboa, Bertrand Editora, 1993 |
Monografia |
Almada: A Cena do Corpo |
Lisboa, Centro Cultural de Belém, 1994 |
Catálogo de exposição |
Fotobiografias Século XX: Almada Negreiros |
Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2001 |
Monografia |
Almada Negreiros: O menino de olhos de gigante |
Lisboa, Caminho, 2005 |
Monografia |
Amadeo & Almada |
Lisboa, Bertrand Editora, 1986 |
Monografia |
Almada Dessins |
Paris, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro Cultural Português, 1993 |
Catálogo de exposição |
Todo Almada |
Lisboa, Contexto Editora, 1994 |
Catálogo |
Inauguração do CAM |
CAM/FCG |
Curator: A definir |
20 de Julho de 1983 Lisboa, Centro de Arte Moderna/ FCG |
20 de Julho 1983. |
A Partir da Colecção |
CAMJAP/FCG |
Curator: CAMJAP/FCG |
25 Julho de 2006 a 29 Abril de 2007 Museu do CAMJAP - Piso 01 |
Comissariado: Jorge Molder e Leonor Nazaré |
50 Anos de Arte Portuguesa |
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |
Curator: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |
6 de Junho de 2007 a 9 de Setembro de 2007 Sede da FCG, Piso 0 e 01 |
Exposição programada pelo Serviço de Belas-Artes e pelo Centro de Arte Moderna, da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.Comissariado: Raquel Henriques da Silva, Ana Ruivo e Ana Filipa Candeias |
Almada Negreiros |
Fundación Juan March |
Curator: Fundación Juan March |
1983 a 1984 Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
Organizadores: Sommer Ribeiro, Lima de Freitas e Margarida Acciaiuoli. |
Almada: A Cena do Corpo |
Centro Cultural de Belém |
Curator: José de Monterroso Teixeira |
1993 a 1994 Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa |
Almada |
CAM/FCG |
Curator: CAM/FCG |
1984 a 1984 Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisboa |
Organizadores: José Sommer Ribeiro, Isabel Guedes, Alice Guerra. |
I Exposição de Artes Plásticas da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |
SNBA |
Curator: SNBA |
1957 a 1957 Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa |