Niomar Moniz Sodré BittenCourt Niomar Moniz (1916-2003) was the courage and durability of the collection of magazines.
Born in Brazil, Brazil, in Brazil, was only 15 years old written by women’s beads in Brazil Morning mail. Casually, then he would have a newspaper, in the early 1940s, Paulo Bittencourt, married his second husband Morning mail And, after the death of Paul, in 1963, Niomar was afraid to leave the newspaper against the 1964 State blow against the military dictatorship.
Sodré Bittencourt promoted freedom of resistance and expression Morning mail in front of extreme fear. After a bomb outside of the newspaper offices, a “resistant lady” (when known) wrote, he did not name terrorism, who attacked the authoritarian regime. In the years after threats, Sodré Bittencourt fell prisoner in 1969 in the exiles of Paris, talking about freedom and the press in the campaign.
Paris Apartment with Karel Appel In the whole sun Hanging center
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But Sodré Bittencourt was not only a fearless journalist. The art of thought and advancement that art was essential, the first Museum of Contemporary Art in Brazil, Museu de Janeiro (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro, a barely fund and resistant against churches, governments and conservatives. Nelson Rockefeller thanks to international support and funding, Momma-a Sugarloaf, designed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy, opened in 1958.
“The passion for Niomar’s art and Rio de Janeire had no hobby to the Museum of Modern Art, around the earth’s iconic land of the Brazilian Catholic land”, the grandson of Sodré Bitztourt, Mauro Moniz Sodré, Art diary. “It was real David and Goliath Battle. In the end, Niomar prevailed, after all, the Archbishop D. Heler distinguished his ability,” Niomar, what I admire most is to admire in a person. “
When building the museum’s modern art collection, Sodré Bittencourt was deliberately and recipe, as many as buying direct artists (Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brancusi). He will often buy it for his personal collection. Unfortunately, in 1978, almost all of Mam’s collection destroyed a fire, and fate himself claimed a lot of personal collections of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro in the mid-1980s.
But all his collection was not lost. Next month, Sotheby in Paris will sell about 70 works in Sodré Bitzencourt’s apartment apartment in La Liberté Pour Dogme (freedom as dogma). The collection acquired in the 1950s and 1970s includes European home names (Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst), as Antonio Segui, Brazilian pioneers like Jesús Rafael Soto and Maria Martins. It is expected to sell between 7 million euros and 10 million euros.
Alberto Giacometti’s Standing women
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“I remember my grandmother, 20 years after death, a dynamic person with great courage, specified, dynamism,” says Sodré selling collections. “He believed that freedom found his greatest expression through art, without any artistic production or without harm.”
Despite the bitterness about the Dictadura of Brazil, he felt very proud of the daring and most dreadful voice of Niomar resistance. He never thought about rewriting his history. The oppressive political climate in Brazil was crucial for its country. “
Niomar’s collection has remained in the same apartment in Trocadéro since the 1950s, hidden from a public view. Solding Sodré now “It was almost selfish to keep it all the time.”
Sodré had his grandmother specially attached Standing women (Standing women)1952 Bronze Giacometti made it directly bought the artist. It is expected to be the upper level of the auction, calculated by 4 million euros of 2.5 million euros. It was another favorite Throughout the sun (1960, € 300,000 €) by the Karel Appel Artist Cobra Group, and Parc des Princes study (€ 1952, € 300,000), Sodré says that Nicholas de Stael is a small painting ” [Niomar’s] when he first met the story. “
Sodré Bittencourt with the President of Brazil, Juscelino Kubitschek, left and Mauricio Nabuco Ambassador
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Other European works include Picasso Nude woman in guitar (€ 1.2m € 1.8 million), at the beginning of 1909, Picasso is experimenting with what would become Cubism, prior to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, André Bretu and Pierre Matisse. Another is Max Ernst’s Husband (€ 1930, 200,000 € 300,000), a surreal representation of emotional distance between men and women, which reflects difficult relations of Ernst at the time.
The focus of the Latin American collection is a collection, such as Brazilian artists Maria Martins, were found in Mam and took part in the surreal movement of New York and Paris. Martins presented the characters like Sodré Bittencourt Marcel Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim and his sculpture Warrior (1949) It is 120,000 euros of 80,000 euros at Sotheby’s auction. Sales also includes Almir Mavignier and Jesus Rafael Soto work, among others.
Stefano Moreni, according to a Sotheby International International Specialist in Sotheby, Sodré Bittencourt fought quiet and shameless conviction for those who are not looking for a confession. ” Moreni tells Tan: “XX. The capacity to read the century and what artists were internationally important and presented in the museum (MAM) was remarkable.”
