“One of the precursors of Brazilian modernism, Victor Brecheret immortalized several female personalities, in the works he produced throughout his life in São Paulo. His academic studies in Italy, his birthplace, endowed him with a technical expertise that gave soul to his characters, crediting them a dramatic and almost mythical charge, translating the feminine into different approaches.
In Daisy, the artist captured the sassy and free spirit of Oswald de Andrade's first wife, Maria de Lourdes Castro Dolzani de Andrade. Aspiring writer, the young student at the “Escola Normal” [former educational school for girls] known as Daisy or Miss Cyclone, struggled for space in the male dominant world of the journalists and writers close to Oswald de Andrade. Pay attention to the posture, twists and pep Brecheret portrayed her. In addition to the femininity of her gestures, is it possible to make out the strength of her story?”