A Cuca

A Cuca is a 1924 oil on canvas painting of a cuca by Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral.

Description

Its wooden frame was commissioned by the artist herself from the French decorative artist Pierre Legrain, who covered it in leather imitating snakeskin.

In the Brazilian modernist style, it shows strange animals such as a toad and an armadillo amidst the luxurious vegetation of a landscape.^[1]

The artist presented it to the Salon du Franc in Paris in 1926 and it did not find a buyer at the auctions to raise money for the French state, which thus automatically recovered it. It is still in the artist's only work in a public collection. Part of the Fonds national d'art contemporain, it has been held at the Musée de Grenoble since 1928.^[2]

References

^ (in French) Xavier-Philippe Guiochon (6 November 2024). "A Cuca , une œuvre de Tarsila do Amaral, 1924". Centre national des arts plastiques.
^ (in Portuguese) Samuel Figueira-Cardoso (2022). "A construção de objetos de discurso em produções textuais descritivas na aula de PLA: o caso A Cuca e o pescador". Portuguese Language Journal. 16: 1–11.

External links

Tarsila do Amaral. A Cuca. 1924
(in Portuguese) A Cuca
(in French) A Cuca
(in French) A Cuca
(in French) A cuca

[1] (in French) Xavier-Philippe Guiochon (6 November 2024). "A Cuca , une œuvre de Tarsila do Amaral, 1924". Centre national des arts plastiques.

[2] (in Portuguese) Samuel Figueira-Cardoso (2022). "A construção de objetos de discurso em produções textuais descritivas na aula de PLA: o caso A Cuca e o pescador". Portuguese Language Journal. 16: 1–11.

[1]

[2]