10 Facts About Ismael Nery

1.

Ismael Nery created numerous paintings, wrote many poems and helped design Brazil's National Patrimony of the Treasury department.

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2.

Ismael Nery contracted tuberculosis in 1931, and died of it in 1934.

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3.

Ismael Nery traveled to Europe in 1920, and attended the Academie Julian in Paris.

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4.

Ismael Nery is not interested in national, indigenous and Afro-Brazilian themes.

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5.

Ismael Nery participates in a group exhibition of Brazilian painting in New York.

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6.

Ismael Nery participated in a few shows, such as the Salao Revolucionario in Rio de Janeiro in 1931 and the Exposicao de Arte Moderna da SPAM in Sao Paulo in 1933.

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7.

Ismael Nery died in 1934, at the age of thirty-three, in Rio de Janeiro, at a time when his notoriety beyond the circle of connoisseurs was still nascent.

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8.

Ismael Nery is buried dressed in Franciscan, in a homage of the monks to his ardent Catholic faith.

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9.

In 1959, Adalgisa Ismael Nery published an autobiographical novel, A Imaginaria, which became a bestseller.

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10.

Ismael Nery's work was forgotten by the public and critics until the 1960s, when his name was inscribed on the Biennale of Sao Paulo, In the room devoted to surrealism and fantastic art.

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