“The face is the great landscape",
Isolda used to say.
Isolda Hermes da Fonseca
(Rio de Janeiro 1924 – 2004)
‘In search of beauty’
Drawings paintings and portraits
Permanent
Exhibition
Art gallery Man & Nature
Maenhoutstraat 75a – 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
Also Permanent
Works of:
Myriam Vandenberghe
(nature paintings),
van Chapman
(nature paintings, portraits),
Miejef Callaert
(landscapes, flowers in aquarelle).
Opening
hours gallery
Thursday-,
Friday-, Saturday- and Sunday afternoon
from 14:00
to18:00 hrs or by appointment.
Organisation:
Arnold Eloy
Maenhoutstraat 75a, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
(Belgium)
Tel. 0496 / 80.57.99 - E-mail:
arnold.eloy@skynet.be
www.mens-en-natuur.com
Pricelist
Exhibition Isolda in Latem
(Belgium)
‘In search of beauty’
1 
Sphinx-Private collection ..5000 € (Poster 40x50cm: 20 €)
2 
Orfeo- Private collection.......................................... 3000 €
3 
Soul- Private collection.. 2000 € (Poster 40x50cm: 20 €)
4 
Figure with a cape- Private collection....................... 2000 €
5 
Angel- Private collection ...2000 € (Poster 40x50cm: 20€)
6 
Isolda child................................................................. 3000 €
7 
Orminda and child..................................................... .2000 €
8 
Reclined mother and child..................................... 2000 €
9 
Gold angel ..................................................................1000 €
10 
Meditation .................................................................2000 €
11 
Veil of Light Private collection............................... 3000 €
12 
Two gold angels....................................................... 1000 €
13 
Children Playing......................................................... 2000 €
14 
Lady and the white horse- Private collection ............2000 €
15 
Drawing of a man .........................................................500 €
16 
Young man (Pensil drawing)........................................ 500 €
17 
Woman and the moon drawing.................................... 500 €
18 
Trinity -private collection-.........................................3000 €
19 
Print drawing ...............................................................250 €
20 
Greek woman............................................................ 250 €
21 
Greek head ..................................................................250 €
22 
Two heads ‘ink’....................................................... 500 €
23 
Reclining woman..................................................... 500 €
24 
Couple( ink drawing)..................................................... 500 €
25 
Sculpture .....................................................................1000 €
26 
Birds mating1 - ...........................................................1000 €
27 
Dancer- Private collection 3000 €... ( Poster 40x50cm: 20€)
28 
Dancer ( sanquinea)................................................. 2000 €
29 
Man and dogs ...............................................................600 €
30 
Birds mating 2 –.......................................................... 1000 €
31 
Horse riders ..............................................................500 €
32 
Simple drawing ............................................................... 500€
33 
Nude couple................................................................... 500 €
34 
Lovers (sanguinea )......................................................500 €
35 
Art Nouveau figure.................................................. 500 €
36 
Couple in gala outfit....................................................1000 €
37 
Two ladies and umbrella...............................................1000 €
38 
Laughing in the Carnaval - .......................................... 400 €
39 
Hotel Du Park- Private collection........................... 3000 €
40 
Birdman .................................................................... 1000 €
42 
Dragon and the woman carnaval............................. 1000 €
43 
Portrait ........................................................................100
44
The magician ............................................................1000 €
45 
Guerra dos anjos Private collection 10000 € (post card 2€)
46 
Astronauta.................................................................. 2000 €
47 
Close encounters- ..............5000 € (Poster 40x50cm: 20 €)
48 
Musicians- Private collection....................................... 2000 €
49 
City of another world .................................................5000 €
50 
Musical meeting 2000 € ............... ( Poster 40x50cm: 20 €)
51 
Musician with a lute ( oil painting)............................. 5000 €
52 
Medusa.........................................................................1000 €
53 
Musician2 ( oil painting).............................................. 3000 €
54 
Head........................................................................... 250 €
55 
Biblical scene............................................................. 2000 €
56 
Serenade................................................................... 600 €
57 
Portrait (papyrus paper).......................................... 2000 €
58 
Looking at a flower..................................................... 500 €
59 
Lady and the morning glory......................................... 500 €
60 
Lovers in blue................................................................. 600€
61 
Solar Figure- private collection................................... 2000 €
62 
Woman pensil drawing...............................................500 €
63 
Persona................................................................... 1000 €
64 
Figure with violin.......................................................500 €
65 
Two angels heads....................................................500 €
66 
Mother and child...................................................... 2000 €
67 
The heroic womanand angel..................................... 500 €
68 
Invisible companion.....................................................500 €
69 
Guerra................................................................. 2000 €
70 
St Francis Private collection.................................. 3000 €
71 
Woman and taurus.................................................. 2000 €
About Isolda
Written by van
Chapman
Press presentation
Known by all for
her intelligent
and surprising
spontaneity,
her generosity
and joy of living,
the great
Brazilian Isolda
was brave to
her last moments
on the Earth.
Isolda Hermes da Fonseca
CURRICULUM
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Born in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, in 7 April 1924
Studies
1947/48 Corcoran School of Art, Washington
D.C., USA
1948/49 New York, USA
1949/51 Florence, Italy
COLLECTIVES
1947/48 Corcoran Gallery, Washington and
Artists, USA
Cooperative,
Washington, USA
1948 Washington Outdoor Show, USA
1951/63
Salão de Arte Moderna
Rio, Brazil
1964 University of Delaware, USA
Bertuche
Gallery New york, USA
Paintings and
Drawings, Madison Avenue, New York, USA
1964/68
Herbert Star Gallery, New York USA
1965 Brazilian Cultural center, New York,
USA
Brian Gallery New
York, USA
Adelphi University,
New York, USA
1976 Coletiva de Verão, Ranulfo
Galeria, Recife, Brazil
1990-‘Poetische Kunst’-Galerie
Studio, Gent, Belgium
1991
Exposição Nipo Brasileira Bikokai
Rio, Brazil
2005
Galeria Embaixada da Argentina Rio,
Brazil
and other Collectives.
INDIVIDUAL
EXHIBITIONS
1956 Petite Gallerie, Rio, Brazil
Galeria IBEU, Rio,
Brazil
1959 Livraria Thomas Jefferson, Rio,
Brazil
1962 Galeria Gead, Rio, Brazil
1963 Brazilian Cultural Center, New York,
USA
1964 West Nyack Clarksville, New York, USA
1967 Centerville, Delaware, USA
1969
Inter-American Development Bank,
Washington, USA
1969 Varanda, Rio, Brazil
1971 Irlandini, Rio, Brazil
1973 IBEU, Rio, Brazil
1976 Mini Gallery, Rio, Brazil
1977 Ranulfo Galleria de Arte, Recife,
Brazil
1978 Galleria Academia Internazionale,
Roma, Italy
Per la unitá de la
Culultura, Roma, Italy
Ranulfo Galeria de
arte, São Paulo, Brazil
Ranulfo Galeria de
Arte, Recife, Brazil
1981 Galeria Ranulpho, São Paulo, Brazil
1982 Galeria da Ana Maria Niemeyer, Rio,
Brazil
1983
Museum of the Vatican, Roma, Italy
Galeria
Ranulpho, Recife, Brazil
1984 Galeria Ranulpho, São Paulo, Brazil
1986 ‘Romantic Art’ in De Mattenburg,
Bergem op Zoom, Holanda
Galeria
da Accademia Internazionale Burckhardt, Roma
1987-Hotel Astória, Hamar, Norway
Galeria
Ranulpho, Recife, Brazil
1995
Retrospectiva no Museu Nacional de
Belas Artes, Rio, Brazil
1997 D`Hoogpoorte, Gent, Belgium
2005 ‘The Master of the Mother pearl’
Retrospectiva Galeria
da Fesp, Rio, Brazil
2006
‘In Search of Beauty’ Gallery Man and Nature, Latem, Belgium
PRIZES
1948
Honorable prize Washington Outdoor
Show, USA
1960 Medalha de Prata Museum de Belas Artes,
Rio, Brazil
1962 Segundo prêmio Concurso Formiplac,
Rio, Brazil
1964 Acquisition Prize, University of
Delaware USA
First prize, Awiza Pond, Bay Shore
USA,
Second prize, Cross Country, New York, USA,
Third prize, Forest Hills,
New York, USA
1977 Nativitá 77, Medaglia per pitura, Napoli,
Italy
Nativitá 77, Primo
premio Internazionale
con medaglia Aurea della Respone per disegno;
Membro Academico dela
Accademia Internazionale Burckhardt
Suissa 1978 Membro
Accademico di Merito
della Accademia dei ‘i
500’ di Arti,
Lettere,
Scienze, Cultura, Roma, Italy,
Premio Campidoglio d’Oro, Pittura, Roma,
Italy
Centro Cultura Le Don
Minzoni,
Capena Concorso di
pittura Sacra,
premio Speciale con Grande Medaglia de ‘Il
Quadrato’
1979 Nativitá 79, 1 premio, Regione
Campania;
Ente provinciale per
il Turismo, Roma, Italy
Trofeo Claudio Monteverdi, Roma,
Italy
Premio Speciale disegno Il Canacollo Galleria d'Arte,
Firenze,
Italy,
Galleria Bottega
d'Arte S. Ambroeus,
Milano Premio speciale
per disegno con Medaglia
Premio fuori Concorso "Santa Croce", Firenze,
Italy
OTHER
‘Stations of the cross’, Igreja de Araruama,
Estado do Rio, Brazil, 1962
Dicionario
Das Artes Plasticas no Brazil, Roberto Pontual, 1969
