Six centuries of artistic creation
1881-1967 Portugal
This painting was commissioned in 1925, together with a Sintra landscape, to decorate Brasileira do Chiado. A striking work in Viana's artistic career as a landscape painter, it incorporates in a very peculiar and individual manner influences from Cézanne, Cubism and Fauvism. In the foreground, the landscape relief appears in spots of colour, in a balanced abstract figuration of pink, ochre, yellow and green tones, in brush strokes and thick impastos, which suggest the morphology of the soil and reveal the contrast of the vegetation in its range of green tints. The various chromatic planes unfold to the horizon, in contrasts of light and shadow that lead to the distant houses and the depth of a sky unsettled by the scale of the clouds and the juxtaposition of blues, in a bustling and almost palpable perspective.
| Oil on canvas, 130 x 200 cm
| LISBON. Belém Palace
