MASP

By Eugênia Gorini Esmeraldo
Wearing an enormous hat circled by a green ribbon ending in a lavish bow under her chin, a young woman looks directly at the viewer, leaning back on a reddish sofa that contrasts with her clothing, also in tones of green. At her side is a piece of furniture atop which is an elongated vase containing flowers whose colors blend with those of the subject’s hat, and another vase, smaller and nearly invisible, with blue flowers further to the right. A diagonal can be drawn to divide the painting which features thick circular brush strokes to the right, and a more diaphanous zone containing the figure to the left. The work The Lady in Green, painted in Paris, is evidence of the influence that the impressionist painters had on Timótheo – a delayed influence if we consider that the French capital at that time already featured the beginnings of the vanguard movements.

— Eugênia Gorini Esmeraldo, 1998

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