Figura IV
Artist name
Artist year born
1914
Artist year deceased
1994
Artwork make date
1973
Artwork title translation
Figure IV
Artwork material
etching
dry point
aquatint
paper
mezzotint
relief
dry point
aquatint
paper
mezzotint
relief
Artwork dimensions
height: 49.2cm
width: 29.4cm
width: 29.4cm
Artwork type (categories)
Print
Accession method
Donated by Fundação Iberê Camargo 2009
Accession number
6-2009
Label text
Iberê Camargo was a painter and printmaker who exhibited in Brazil from the 1940s. His 1973 aquatint and etching Figura IV typifies the more abstract and experimental tendencies explored by many Brazilian metal printers from the 1950s onwards. He was taught metal printing by Austrian Hans Steiner, before himself teaching that discipline at the Instituto Municipal de Belas-Artes do Rio de Janeiro from 1953, where his pupils included Anna Letycia and Rossini Perez. In 1960 Camargo taught in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his 1955 treaty on printing: A Gravura, was published in Spanish, prior to its later publication in Portuguese in 1975.
(Display caption from the exhibition Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile, firstsite, 2011-2012)
Ian Dudley
(Display caption from the exhibition Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile, firstsite, 2011-2012)
Ian Dudley
Last updated date
2011