Abaporu [SEP] material used
Abaporu
Abaporu (from Tupi language "abapor'u", abá (man) + poro (people) + 'u (to eat), "the man that eats people") is an oil painting on canvas by the Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral, executed in 1928 as a birthday present to the writer Oswald de Andrade, her husband at the time.
It is considered the most valuable painting by a Brazilian artist, having reached the value of $1.4 million, paid by the Argentine collector Eduardo Costantini in
they would devour Europe themselves. Andrade used "Abaporu" for the cover of the manifesto as a representation of his ideals. The following year the manifesto's influence continued, Tarsila painted "Antropofagia" (1929), which featured the "Abaporu" figure together with the female figure from "A Negra" from 1923, as well as the Brazilian banana leaf, cactus, and again the lemon-slice sun.
In 1929, Tarsila had her first solo exhibition in Brazil at the Palace Hotel in Rio de Janeiro