ABSTRACT
This article aims to present an investigation of Anita Malfatti’s archive, located at the Institute of Brazilian Studies of the University of São Paulo, focusing on sketchbooks and notebooks that the artist maintained throughout her life. Those notebooks and sketchbooks, which were created for different purposes and in different contexts, reveal both Anita’s trajectory and her role in the artistic field of São Paulo. Moreover, they are important materials for understanding how that artistic field was established throughout the first half of the 20th century.
KEYWORDS:
Anita Malfatti; artist’s notebook; Brazilian art; Brazilian Modernism
