Ione Saldanha (Alegrete, 1919 – Rio de Janeiro, 2001) was a painter and sculptor whose career, spanning almost six decades, stood out for its formal rigor and the consistency of her research. She began her production in the 1940s with figurative paintings of historic urban landscapes, far removed from the fast pace of modern metropolises, and then, starting in the 1950s, she immersed herself in abstraction. At the end of the 1960s, she expanded her investigation to three-dimensional supports, exploring above all the verticality of bamboo, slats, and spools, creating a unique visual vocabulary that synthesized elements of Brazilian architecture and popular culture.