Provenance:
Private Collection, Brazil.
Literature:
Reproduced in Rubem Valentim – Construção e Símbolo, p.55, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994.
Reproduced in Variaçōes Meta-Signicas Visuais de Rubem Valentim, p. 10, Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal, Brasilia, Brazil, 1980.
Brazilian Rubem Valentim was a self-taught artist who abandoned his career in dentistry to devote himself full-time to the plastic arts. In 1962, a travel fellowship allowed him to spend time in Europe, where he was fascinated by so-called ‘primitive’ art, the term applied by Western scholars to non-western and tribal art. Valentim returned to Brazil in 1966.
