Banderinha azul
A delicate interplay of translucent blue washes and soft pastel marks creates a fragile, pennant-like form that seems to hover weightlessly on the page. Schendel's restrained gesture evokes both the simplicity of a small flag and a meditative exploration of shape, color, and the quiet tension between presence and absence. The work reflects her broader preoccupation with language, sign, and the poetic potential of minimal forms.
- Medium
- watercolor and pastel on paper
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Latin America
May 29, 2014
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Born in Zurich and later studying in Milan, Mira Schendel immigrated to São Paulo in 1949, where she began her artistic career in earnest. She found Brazil ripe for artistic innovation, both thanks to the community of European émigrés living there during this time, as well as the exploration of abstraction being led by Brazilian artists like Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica.
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