Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

(French/Portuguese, 1908–1992)

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was a French-Portuguese painter. Noted for blurring the lines between representation and abstraction, Vieira da Silva’s paintings are produced in a limited palette. Her compositions often consist of checkerboard or grid patterns, layered on top of one another to create spaces reminiscent of interior rooms or aerial city views. Born on June 13, 1908 in Lisbon, Portugal, she moved to France at an early age where she was influenced stylistically and conceptually while studying under artists such as Fernand Léger, Émile Antoine Bourdelle, and Stanley William Hayter. To escape World War II, Vieira da Silva and her husband, the painter Arpad Szenes, fled to Rio de Janeiro, where she lived for seven years. After the war, she returned to Paris, where she remained for the rest of her life and received French citizenship in 1956. Her work, likened to both the mid-century Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism movements, has been critically celebrated throughout the world. The artist was a recipient of a prize at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1961, and the Árpád Szenes-Vieira da Silva Foundation in Lisbon was built in 1994, a museum that houses a large portion of her works. She died on March 6, 1992 in Paris, France.

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Artworks

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (29 results)
Sans Titre, 1950

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Sans Titre, 1950

Omer Tiroche Gallery

110,000–130,000 EUR

The Library , 1959

Attributed to Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

The Library , 1959

Le Coin des Arts

1,800 EUR

Untitled (Rua das Chagas), 1987

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Untitled (Rua das Chagas), 1987

Composition Gallery

Price on Request

Azteque (Tumulus), 1971

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Azteque (Tumulus), 1971

Composition Gallery

Price on Request

Transylvanie, 1974

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Transylvanie, 1974

Denis Bloch Fine Art

Price on Request

Souris, 1978

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Souris, 1978

Le Coin des Arts

1,000 EUR

Les piétons de Noël, 1978

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Les piétons de Noël, 1978

Le Coin des Arts

1,200 EUR

Untitled, 1973

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Untitled, 1973

The Mayor Gallery

Price on Request

Carnaval , 1978

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Carnaval , 1978

Le Coin des Arts

1,200 EUR

Grottes, 1971

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Grottes, 1971

Composition Gallery

1,650 EUR

Le métro, ca. 1980

After Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Le métro, ca. 1980

Plazzart

3,522 EUR

Composition, 1979

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Composition, 1979

Patrick Derom Gallery

Price on Request

Broadway, 1973

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Broadway, 1973

Denis Bloch Fine Art

Sold

Untitled, 1953

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Untitled, 1953

Denis Bloch Fine Art

Sold

Le Village, ca. 1955

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Le Village, ca. 1955

Omer Tiroche Gallery

60,000–80,000 EUR

Le Piano, 1950

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Le Piano, 1950

Omer Tiroche Gallery

210,000–250,000 EUR

Projet pour le Métro, ca. 1980

After Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Projet pour le Métro, ca. 1980

Plazzart

3,204 EUR

Verte, 1959

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Verte, 1959

Le Coin des Arts

1,800 EUR

No Title

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

No Title

Le Coin des Arts

1,600 EUR

Aztec (Tumulus), 1971

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Aztec (Tumulus), 1971

Plazzart

1,320 EUR

Un été de sel , 1989

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Un été de sel , 1989

Le Coin des Arts

1,000 EUR

Rue des quatre-vents à Yevres, 1968

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Rue des quatre-vents à Yevres, 1968

Omer Tiroche Gallery

100,000–120,000 EUR