Round 9: Tossup 6

A 60-million-dollar painting from this country depicting a group of beavers beneath a sunset was discovered hidden under a bed after it was stolen from an elderly widow by a fake psychic. A painting from this country depicts a purple tentacle wrapped around a red thorn and an egg. This country’s “Group of the Five” included an artist whose painting depicting a toad, caterpillar, bird, and forest spirit was once covered in imitation snakeskin by Pierre Legrain. A student of Fernand Léger (“lay-ZHAY”) from this country, who painted The Egg and A Cuca, helped found a group that organized the landmark Modern Art Week. A painting from this country’s modernist movement depicts an orange figure with an enormous foot (10[1])beside a cactus. For 10 points, name this home country of Tarsila do Amaral (“tar-SEE-la doo ah-ma-RALL”), whose work inspired Oswald de Andrade’s (“OHZ-vald jee ahn-DRAH-jee’s”) Cannibal Manifesto. ■END■

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