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Eduardo Sued (b. 1925, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a painter, printmaker, illustrator, draftsman, stained-glass artist, and educator. He graduated from the National School of Engineering in Rio de Janeiro in 1948, and the following year began studying drawing and painting under Henrique Boese (1897–1982). Between 1950 and 1951, he worked as a draftsman in the architectural office of Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012). In 1951, he traveled to Paris, where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Julian. During his stay in the French capital, he engaged closely with the works of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Joan Miró (1893–1980), Henri Matisse (1869–1954), and Georges Braque (1882–1963). Returning to Rio de Janeiro in 1953, he frequented the studio of Iberê Camargo (1914–1994) to study metal engraving, later becoming his assistant. He taught drawing and painting at the Escolinha de Arte do Brasil in 1956 and, the following year, relocated to São Paulo, where he lectured in drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) from 1958 to 1963. In 1964, he returned to Rio de Janeiro and published the etching portfolio 25 Gravuras [25 Engravings]. Refusing to align himself with any formal movement, Sued remained detached from the aesthetic debates of his time. After a brief early phase rooted in figuration, his practice swiftly turned toward geometric abstraction. In the 1970s, he gravitated toward Constructivist currents, grounding his work in a sustained reflection on Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) and the Bauhaus. Between 1974 and 1980, he taught metal engraving at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio).

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