This guide presents a selection of 57 works from the
MASP’s collection, accompanied by commentaries on each
of them. The compilation is a snippet of an entire universe of almost 12 thousand artworks, including art from Africa, the Americas and Brazil, Asia, and Europe, from Antiquity to the 21st century and comprised of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and fashion, amongst other media.
As well as works taken from European art collections, including names such as Raphael, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso, this publication reproduces artworks from a multitude of cultures, such as a sculpture of the deity Eshu (Oyo, Nigeria) and a Marajoara ceramic urn. Amongst the Brazilians, we have works from Maria Auxiliadora da Silva, Agostinho Batista de Freitas, and José Antonio da Silva, self-taught artists who worked outside academia and the traditional art circuit and who have systema
