A central figure of Brazilian modernism, Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is one of Brazil's best-known and best-loved artists. She created an original, evocative body of work, drawing on indigenous imagery and the modernising elements of a rapidly-transforming country.

Starting in the 1920s, moving between São Paulo and Paris, Tarsila do Amaral navigated between the avant-gardes of these two cultural capitals. Having constructed a "Brazilian" iconographic world in Paris, put to the test by the Cubism and Primitivism so in vogue in the French capital, her painting was the root of the "anthropophagic" movement advocating the "devouring" by Brazilians of foreign and colonial cultures as a form of both assimilation and resistance.

Brightly coloured landscapes, dreamlike compositions and abstract geometry confirm the power of a body of work firmly rooted in its time and always ready to renew itself. Her work also raises social, identity and racial issues and invites us to reconsider the divides between tradition and avant-garde, centres and outskirts, high culture and popular culture.

Widely exhibited in her native country, very few exhibitions have so far been dedicated to her work abroad. This first retrospective in France which gathers together more than 150 works aims to bridge this gap and takes us to the heart of modern Brazil and its cleavages.

Exhibition organised by GrandPalaisRmn

Under the patronage of Mr Emmanuel MACRON, President of the French Republic

The exhibition will then be presented at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, from February 28 to June 8 2025.

The exhibition on show at the Musée d'Orsay in autumn 2024 focuses on Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and his predilection for masculine forms and portraits of men, and seeks to examine this artist's profoundly radical modernity through the lens of art history's changing perspective on 19th-century forms of masculinity.

Along the same lines as Paul Guillaume, German dealer-collector Heinz Berggruen built up an exceptional collection of 20th century masters. This exhibition explores the relationship of this unusual gallery owner with his artists and his art market network in post-war Paris.

After two exhibitions devoted to Swedish painters Carl Larsson (2014) and Anders Zorn (2017), the Petit Palais pays tribute to Bruno Liljefors with the last chapter of its programme focusing on the illustrious Swedish trio known as "ABC ", a combination of the initials of their first names.

Less known than his peers, Bruno Liljefors was nevertheless an important figure on the Scandinavian arts scene in the late-nineteenth century. By showing his work for the first time to the French public, the Petit Palais seeks to highlight his pictorial skill and Liljefors' original contribution to the construction of the imaginative repertoire of Swedish nature.