Description: Original Antonio Bandeira painting. Signed and dated ’59 lower right. Untitled Gouache and India Ink on hand-made paper (papier-mâché).  Painting itself is irregular-sized – approximately 17” x 10” adhered to 19¾” x 25½” gray-colored medium weight stock. From the Golden Griffin Gallery, NYC.


Antonio Bandeira (1922 -1967). Known for his gestural painting, he is considered one of the ten greatest Brazilian painters with works in major private collections, as well as in museums in Brazil and around the world. In Brazil. he was part of the Modernist Movement of Fortaleza in the 1940s. In Paris, he attended the School of Fine Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. There he was invited to participate in the Salon d'Automne, the Salon d'Art Libre and the Salon de Mai. He became an adherent of French Tachisme or informal abstraction. With the German painter Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, known as the Wols, and French artist Camille Bryen, they created the group Banbryols (acronym formed from the names of the three artists), a pioneering group in European lyrical abstraction, which lasted from 1948 - 1951. He returned to Brazil and worked with José Pedrosa and Milton Dacosta. In 1965, he returned to Paris and lived and worked there until his death in 1967.

The Golden Griffin Gallery/Arts Inc. operated in downtown Manhattan - New York City, New York from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the mid 1940s, Arts, Inc. was established as a publishing house specializing in European scholarly and artistic works. In the 1950s, Arts, Inc., the parent company, expanded to create, first, the Golden Griffin Bookstore, and then the Griffin Gallery, which dealt primarily with contemporary American and European artists. The Golden Griffin was known as the “Continental Bookstore” because of its stock of European titles.


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