Casa Guilherme de Almeida
House-museum of gifted modernist paintings and fifteen thousand literary treasures atop a quiet hill.
This guide to Casa Guilherme de Almeida in São Paulo starts with a portrait of Baby de Almeida, wife of the poet and film critic Guilherme de Almeida, painted as a gift by one of Brazil's most sought-after modernists within a circle of friends that included Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Emiliano di Cavalcanti and Victor Brecheret. When Guilherme died in 1969, those gifts, together with some fifteen thousand books and documents, had quietly become a fortune, and the state government moved fast to buy the whole estate from Baby. For ten years afterward the paintings stayed exactly where they hung, the shutters closed, while the deal sat somewhere in the bureaucracy.
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