José Antonio da Silva, Untitled, 1970

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 70 x 100 cm (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in)
Framed: 73 x 102.5 x 2.5 cm (28 3/4 x 40 3/8 x 1 in)

Signed and dated bottom left

Before becoming an artist, Silva lived a gruelling and unstable life as a labourer, moving from farm to farm across the state of São Paulo. By the time Silva was...

Before becoming an artist, Silva lived a gruelling and unstable life as a labourer, moving from farm to farm across the state of São Paulo. By the time Silva was born, São Paulo had become the centre of of the country’s coffee production, due to its basaltic purple-red soil.