Until now, no biography of breath was produced on Eugene de Proenca Sigaud. In portals specialized in art or dictionaries of painters, concise biographies for one page repeat the same information exhaustively. This short article doesn't seek to redeem Sigaud from this silence. It proposes, instead, to understand why figures considered "minor" remain in the recent history of art in the country, as well as understand the processes of memory perpetuation and appreciation of the work of certain historical agents instead of others. The canons of the modern Brazil create their own narrative criteria of the past, where the economy of discourses of the artistic quality and the interested and exclusive use of collections create invisibility and omissions, a process which Sigaud, whose eloquent visual work isn't seconded by texts, interviews and extensive documentation is exemplary. In pursuit of these silences, this brief article elects the poor reception of the work of Sigaud, his leftist political position, and his training as an architect as wires to look through these aspects, poorly studied until the moment, guiding to launch the hypothesis that contribute for understanding the work of this painter.
Eugênio de Proença Sigaud; biography; Brazilian modern art; memory
