'Beach Day at Porto Seguro' by Sergio Telles, 1976, Brazilian Fauvist Coastal Landscape, Rio De Janiero

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Signed lower left "Sergio Telles" (Brazilian, 1936 - 2022), titled 'Porto Seguro' and dated 1976.

An energetic oil landscape showing … Read more Signed lower left "Sergio Telles" (Brazilian, 1936 - 2022), titled 'Porto Seguro' and dated 1976.

An energetic oil landscape showing beach-goers enjoying the coastal resort town of Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil.

A notable and prolific Brazilian modernist, Sergio Telles first studied at Rio de Janeiro's Colméia in 1954, and started exhibiting with success the following year in the same city. In 1957, Telles studied abroad in Europe, traveling to France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Italy, where he was accepted into the art restoration internship program at the Vatican Pinacoteca. Upon his return to Brazil, Telles attended the studios of prominent artists such as Rodolfo Chambelland, Oswaldo Teixeira, and Marie Nivoulies de Pierrefort. In 1964, Telles entered into diplomacy which provided him with new opportunities for cultural and artistic exchange.

In the 1970s, Telles traveled to Porto Seguro at the suggestion of the writer Jorge Amado. During this trip, he produced drawings and oils that were published in a book with the collaboration of Jorge Amado and Jeanine Warnwood. Additionally, he is the author of "Nivouliès de Pierrefort," published in Buenos Aires by the Museum of Modern Art in 1974. In 1978, he illustrated the book "Rio de Janeiro," launched at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. Telles exhibited widely and with success including throughout Europe, Japan, Argentina and Brazil, among others.

Select exhibitions:
1955 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - First Individual
1969 - Brussels (Belgium) - Individual, at Galeria L'Angle Aigu
1969 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Galeria Debret
1972 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Individual, at the Wildenstein Gallery
1973 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at MNBA
1973 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Pinacoteca do Estado
1977 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at MAB-FAAP
1977 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Individual, at the Wildenstein Gallery
1977 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Galeria La Cave
1978 - London (England) - Individual, at the Wildenstein Gallery
1979 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Galeria La Cave
1979 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Galeria Lebreton
1980 - Osaka (Japan) - Individual, at the Fujikawa Gallery
1981 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Renato Magalhães Gouvêa Art Office
1982 - Paris (France) - Retrospective, at the Carnavalet Museum
1986 - Geneva (Switzerland) - Homage to the 50th anniversary of Sergio Telles, at the Petit Palais Museum
1987 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at MNBA
1988 - São Paulo SP - Retrospective, at Masp
1989 - Brasília DF - Individual, at the Oscar gallery Seraphico
1992 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at the Bonino Gallery
1994 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Renato Magalhães Gouvêa Art Office
1994 - Salvador BA - Individual, at the Art Office of Bahia
1995 - Belo Horizonte MG - Sérgio Telles: Paintings and Drawings, at BDMG Cultural

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