Thomaz Farkas
Luminaria do Cine Ipiranga São Paulo

Luminaria do Cine Ipiranga São Paulo
Luminaria do Cine Ipiranga São Paulo
Luminaria do Cine Ipiranga São Paulo
ArtistBrazilian, born Hungary, 1924–2011
CultureBrazilian
Titles
  • Luminaria do Cine Ipiranga São Paulo
Datec. 1945, printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 17 5/16 × 17 5/16 in. (44 × 44 cm)
Frame: 28 3/8 × 24 3/16 × 1 1/4 in. (72 × 61.5 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Adolpho Leirner in honor of Mari Carmen Ramírez
Object number2019.217
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionOne of the principal figures in mid-20th-century Brazilian photography, Thomaz Farkas recorded the rapid transformation of São Paulo’s urban landscape in a style as modern as the new architecture itself. This image, which at first glance reads as an abstraction, shows the ceiling of the Ipiranga Cinema, inaugurated in April 1943 and still regarded as one of the city’s Modernist treasures.
ProvenanceThe artist; Adolpho Leirner, São Paulo, Brazil; given to MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black in, recto, bottom margin: Ao querido Adolpho Leirner, // Amigo das artes e dos artistas! [artistas underlined twice] // Thomaz Farkas

[Dear Adolpho Leirner, Friend of the arts and of the artists! Thomaz Farkas]
Signed in black ink, recto, bottom margin: Thomaz Farkas

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