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Tarsila do Amaral. A Negra, 1923.
Another woman paving the way to Brazilian modernism in the early 20th c. This portrait was painted within 1 year of the last #Painting I posted by Malfatti and only a few years after her contemporary challenged entrenched traditionalism in Brazilian painting for the first time. Look at how fast it blew up. This painting is often cropped online to remove the feet, which is odd since do Amaral's most famous painting, Abaporu, is dominated by a similar huge foot.