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Abaporu (from Tupi-Guaraní language ‘aba’ ‘pora’ and ‘u’ the man that eats people) is an oil painting on canvas by the Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral executed in 1928 as a birthday present to the writer Oswald de Andrade her husband at the time.It is considered the most valuable painting by a Brazilian artist having reached the value of $1.4 million paid by the Argentine collector Eduardo Costantini in an auction in 1995.