Namoradeira Rocker by JOSÉ ZANINE CALDAS , ca. 1970
JOSÉ ZANINE CALDAS
“Namoradeira” rocker, ca. 1970
Pequi wood.
28 x 39 1/2 x 33 1/4 in. (71.1 x 100.3 x 84.5 cm.)
ESTIMATE $15,000-20,000SOLD AT $20,000
LITERATURE Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos Santos, Móvel Moderno no Brasil, Sao Paulo, 1995, p. 108; Hugo Segawa, Ver Zanine, exh. cat., Centro Cultural Banco Do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, 2003, p. 34
ResourcesIn the wake of Brazil’s 1964 military coup, Zanine lost his position at the University of Brasilia and considered defecting to Yugoslavia. Politics and persecution aside, the designer remained loyal to his roots—and roots. He didn’t abscond to distant shores, he retreated…