Untitled (Landscape with Mountains)

This crisp, clear view is of mountains in the north of Portugal; it and two other drawings by the artist are the first Portuguese works to enter the Allen's collection. Oberlin Emeritus Professor Gil Miranda was a neighbor of Alves de Sá over the course of a decade, and recounts that, an avid gardener, the artist charmingly called his flowers his "colors". His interest in the varying hues of nature is certainly apparent in the present work.