Artbid - Auction 1388 / Lot 26

Artbid - Auction 1388 / Lot 26

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003) (2)

Untitled

Oil on paper and Watercolor on paper

Gouache signed and dated 1955

41 x 25 cm.

Artbid - Auction 1390 / Lot 22

Artbid - Auction 1390 / Lot 22

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003)

Untitled

Ballpoint drawing on paper, glued on paper

Signed and dated 1975

30 x 34.5 cm.

Artbid - Auction 1386 / Lot 29

Artbid - Auction 1386 / Lot 29

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003)

Untitled

Triptych to ballpoint on paper, glued on cardboard

Signed and dated 1977

30 x 58.5 cm.

Artbid - Auction 1243 / Lot 6

Artbid - Auction 1243 / Lot 6

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003)

Untitled

Graphite on Cardboard

Signed and dated 1956

61 x 43 cm.

Artbid - Auction 1335 / Lot 8

Artbid - Auction 1335 / Lot 8

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003)

Figures

Mixed media on paper, glued on cardboard

Signed and dated 1955 

41 x 32 cm.

Crucifixion

Andrea Mantegna

Crucifixion

1459

67 cm × 93 cm

Louvre, Paris

Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) was a Renaissance painter.

Their characters are very dramatic and realistic about the idealization of bodies, they are skeletal bodies that show suffering.

Diego Velazquez

Crucified Christ

1631

Oil on canvas

248 cm x 169 cm

Prado Museum, Madrid

Diego Rodriguez Silva and Velazquez (1599-1660) was a Spanish painter and chief court artist of King Philip IV of Spain. He was an individualist artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portraitist.

Crucified Christ is a 1632 painting by Diego Velazquez depicting the crucifixion of Jesus. Apollonian perfection of the crucifixion, of an almost divine and perfect beauty, according to the belief that Christ was the most beautiful of all men.

The baroque light-dark technique that contrasts the total darkness of the background with the light that bathes the body of Christ.

Paul Gauguin

Yellow Christ

1989

Oil on canvas

91 cm x 73 cm

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French painter of post-impressionism. He was a restless and curious man, spent his whole life searching for the truth. Who we are? Where are we going? And to represent in their pictures religious things like this. Gauguin left Paris to move away from materialism, went to Bretagne for spirituality.

His religious pictures are searching for the truth behind everything.

Yellow Christ is considered one of the main works of Symbolism in painting.

Salvador Dali

The crucifix

Oil on canvas

205 x 116 cm

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow

Salvador Dalí i Domènech (1904-1989) was an important Spanish painter, known for his surrealist work.

Mystical stage in which the artist often represented religious things inspired by Spanish Baroque. The Crucifix appears suspended, as if floating through Cadaqués. Spain, where the painter had his home.

Manuel Pereira da Silva

Crucifixion

Cardboard ballpoint

1978

50 cm x 65 cm

Manuel Pereira da Silva had several orders from the Church in which he represented scenes from the Passion of Christ, the Via Sacra, the Ascension of Christ (Santa Luzia Sanctuary, Viana do Castelo), Our Lady of Areosa (Areosa Church, Porto), beyond countless busts and monuments of church members.

But it was in his studio that he most designed the Crucifixion, especially the paper ballpoint pen, despite being an atheist.

Manuel Pereira da Silva

Crucifixion

Cardboard ballpoint

1978

50 cm x 65 cm

Manuel Pereira da Silva

Crucifixion

Cardboard ballpoint

1978

40 cm x 60 cm

Manuel Pereira da Silva

Crucifixion

Cardboard ballpoint

1978

50 cm x 65 cm

Manuel Pereira da Silva

Crucifixion

Cardboard ballpoint

1979

50 cm x 65 cm

Manuel Pereira da Silva

Crucifixion

Cardboard ballpoint

1989

27 cm x 50 cm

Manuel Pereira da Silva

Crucifixion

Cardboard ballpoint

1989

20 cm x 29 cm

Artbid - Auction 1374 / Lot 12

Artbid - Auction 1374 / Lot 12

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003)

Untitled

Cardboard ballpoint

Signed and dated 1979

50 x 50 cm.

Artbid - Auction 1370 / Lot 21

Artbid - Auction 1370 / Lot 21

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003)

Untitled

Graphite on Cardboard

Signed and dated 1958

65 x 50 cm.

Artbid - Auction 1365 / Lot 29

Artbid - Auction 1365 / Lot 29

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003)

Untitled

Mixed Media on Cardboard

Signed and dated 1978

65 x 50 cm.

Artbid - Auction 1360 / Lot 23

Artbid - Auction 1360 / Lot 23

MANUEL PEREIRA DA SILVA (1920-2003) (2)

Untitled

Mixed Media on Paper and Pen on Paper

Signed and dated 1990

30 x 21 cm. (each)