USE OUR COUPON CODE *** YOURFAVORITE ***TO GET 25% OFF YOUR PURCHASE IN OUR STORE AT THE CHECKOUT CART. THANK YOU FOR BROWSING THROUGH OUR STORE ITEMS. Extremely Rare and Vintage 1975 Signed ALCIDES - Nude Children in jovial spirits swimming and playing by the river landscape scene. - South American Brazilian Latino Art Painting. This is a stunner. Absolutely beautiful with great detail and vivid color. Add this highly collectible piece from a highly regarded and notable artist depicting the classic naif folk primitive style of Brazilian art. Artwork by this artist are held in private collectors home, prestigious art galleries and in international collegiate collections i.e University of Salford, United Kingdom. Item is in excellent condition as displayed in the photo gallery. Frame measures 22" inches by 17" inches. Shipped with UPS, USPS Priority Mail, FedEx Ground and/or FedEx Home Delivery. Alcides Pereira dos Santos (1932-2007), born in Bahia, moved to Mato Grosso in 1950, where he settled. Before becoming a painter, Alcides tried his hand at various occupations, ranging from shoemaker to barber to stonemason. At the age of 19, Alcides, according to Aline Figueredo, ?experienced the greatest revelations in his life: religion and painting.? He was evangelical and believed that art is a gift from God. Consequently, his paintings aimed to highlight God?s ?divine gifts? of the land, particularly the life-giving properties of nature. Much of Alcides? work from the seventies and eighties is comprised of these subtly religious landscapes, which are known for their serenity. However, Alcides is also known to have painted more explicitly religious scenes, such as his series of works depicting the creation of the world in seven days and other biblical narratives. His landscapes are often accentuated by geometric forms and small graphic details such as human figures - a feature that appears most often in his works from the seventies. These small figures, however, are never large enough to be considered the central focus. For Alcides, the emphasis is placed on the entire landscape as a kind of ?macro creation?. In 1992, after years of searching and tired of the solitary and hopeless life he led in Cuiaba?, Alcides finally found his only daughter, Almerinda, with whom he had lost contact for decades. He settled there, in a favela in the suburbs of Sa?o Paulo. Weakened and with no resources other than the income from selling his paintings at ridiculously low prices, Alcides embraced a religious and leisurely life. His only great friend was the driver Toa?o Batista, a resident of the neighborhood, who selflessly supported him in the final journey of his existence. Most of the paintings from this period were not inspired by nature, animals, plantations, or relation- ships with the world and the environment. Instead, they were related to technology and architecture: means of transport, factories, machines, constructions. Alcides took part in numerous exhibitions in Brazil, and until today his works are often shown in Brazil, New York, Paris and Madrid. His works are part of the collections of the Foundation Cartier in Paris, the Museu Afrobrasil in Sao Paulo, the Popular Art Museum of San Francisco and the Cultural Center in Joao Pessoa, Paraíba. He was also part of the notorious exhibition Histoires de voir, Show and Tell at Foundation Cartier in 2012.