Ernesto De Fiori: uma retrospective. Pintura, desenho e escultura. [exposição da Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, realizada no Pavilhão Pe. Manoel da Nóbrega, de 21 de Outubro a 14 de Dezembro de 1997]. Edited with text by Mayra Laudanna. Additional text by Leon Kossovitch and Wolfgang Pfeiffer. São Paulo: Pinacoteca Edições, 1997. 240 pages. Softcover with dustjacket. Jacket hast tear along spine at top. Otherwise almost like new. IN PORTUGUESE.

Ernesto de Fiori (1884–1945) was a sculptor and painter. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Rome, but descended from a family of Austrian origin, Ernesto De Fiori cultivated deeper ties with Germany than with his homeland, in fact becoming naturalized German at a young age. Renowned in Europe as a sculptor of quality and of a cosmopolitan spirit, the artist was forced, in the face of the terror of the Nazi rise, to emigrate to Brazil in 1936. Establishing himself in the city of São Paulo, where he already had family members, De Fiori called the attention of important critics and artists, including collaborating with the development of the São Paulo Artistic Family and the Santa Helena Group, environments in which it exerted a recognized influence. Ernesto De Fiori’s sculptural production is characterized by a greater naturalism of the human figure in comparison to the modernist schematics in vogue, which marked Brazilian art through sculptors such as Victor Brecheret and Bruno Giorgi.