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Each trace is a piece of nerve with the vehemence of a barbarian heart ("Cada traço é um pedaço de nervo com a veemência de um coração bárbaro") - about his own work. After his death several posthumous exhibitions were already accomplished with its works, and starting from Goeldi's Project creation, all collection and photographic file is classified in the Institution
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