Coleção Airton Queiroz

de Camila Perlingeiro, Max Perlingeiro

Chancellor Airton José Vidal Queiroz (Brazil 1946 - 2017), built a collection of art that goes from Dutch Brazil to the present day. The Airton Queiroz Collection, formed by 700 works of the highest quality that populate the colonial-style house of the collector, whose adventure in the art universe began more than 50 years ago. The patron belongs to a traditional family of Ceará and was an art enthusiast. Joining his personal collection to the works belonging to his father, he started the Edson Queiroz Foundation Collection. This publication comprises full-page color reproductions of 250 works by 115 artists, 24 of them foreigners. The book is organized by historical periods, situating the artists and works of the Collection in their respective times and context. The collection begins with the 17th century, with works by two artists: Albert Eckhout and Frans Post. From the 18th century, Aleijadinho. From the 19th century are twenty-three artists. highlighting the presence of Raimundo Cela. The section dedicated to Modernism contains twenty-three of the most representative artists of that period. Next, the section Abstractionʺ comprises the works from artists linked to the groups: Atelier Abstração, Grupo Ruptura and Concretism, Grupo Frente and the Neo-Concretism Art movement, Art informel, Kinetic Art and Geometric artists not linked to groups; totaling twenty-five artists. The next section is dedicated to contemporary art, comprising seventeen artists. Finally, in the section entitled Foreign Presence", consisting of twenty-four artists. Among them: Marc Chagall, Fernando Botero, Renoir, Claude Monet, Matisse, Salvador Dalí, Alfredo Volpi, Joan Miró and Diego Rivera; among many others.