Maria Elena Vieira da Silva

Maria Elena Vieira da Silva (born June 13, 1908, Lisbon, Portugal—died March 6, 1992, Paris, France) was a Portuguese-born French painter of intricate, semiabstract compositions. Vieira da Silva moved to Paris in 1928, where she studied sculpture first with Antoine Bourdelle and later with Charles Despiau. She studied painting with Fernand Léger and engraving with Stanley William Hayter. Although the abstract patterning of Vieira da Silva’s early paintings tended toward the decorative, in her mature...