Segall realista

Few yeas after Laser Sagall (b. Lithuania 1891, moved to Brazil - d. 1957) moved his residence to Sao Paulo, he inaugurated in 1928 his first exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in the Palace Hotel of the Rio Branco Avenue, where he revealed the first Brazilian phase of his paintings. Eighty years later a retrospective exhibition opens in the same city. Organized by Tadeu Chiarelli, professor of the University of Sao Paulo, the book examines the period critical texts written on the art of Segall setup in the context of European Expressionism art and Brazilian modernism.