Sarah Afonso
Sarah Afonso (born May 13, 1899 in Lisbon , Portugal ; † December 14, 1983 there ), artist name Sara Sancha Afonso , was a Portuguese painter, illustrator and embroiderer.
Life
Sarah Afonso was born in Lisbon and grew up in modest circumstances in Viana do Castelo in northern Portugal . From 1915 to 1922 she attended courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon under the professorship of Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro . One of her fellow students was Clementina Carneiro de Moura .
Between 1923 and 1924 and from 1928 to 1929 she lived in Paris , attended the Academie Grande Chaumier and exhibited at the Salon de Autome . After her return, she became part of the Lisbon art scene, including the circle in Café A Brasileira - until then a bastion of male artists. In 1927 she had her first solo exhibition in Lisbon. She took part in the World Exhibition in Lisbon in 1940 and the São Paulo Biennale .
In 1944 she was awarded the Prémio Souza-Cardoso , the highest art prize in Portugal.
As an illustrator, she worked for various Portuguese magazines such as Presença , Ocidente , Revista de Portugal and Panorama . Her work as an art embroiderer was also important.
She was married to the universal artist José Sobral de Almada-Negreiros .
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Her work is popular and influenced by the environment in northern Portugal, where she spent her childhood. They are happy pictures that are shaped by folk festivals, markets and the like.
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- Portugal's Modernism, 1910–1940. A catalog for the exhibition.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sarah Affonso. Retrieved June 24, 2018 (European Portuguese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Afonso, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1983 |
| Place of death | Lisbon , Portugal |