Carlos Botelho

Carlos Botelho, 1971
Echoes of the Week - In Paris, May 1929, Indian ink on paper, 44.5 × 30.5 cm
My Father, 1937, oil on board, 73 × 60 cm
Lisbon Bouquet, 1935, oil on canvas, 72 × 100 cm
Lisbon – S. Cristóvão, 1937, oil on canvas, 62 × 78 cm
Nocturnal – New York, 1940, oil on board, 78 × 61 cm
Old Bunch of Houses, 1958, tempera on canvas, 46 × 55 cm
Lisbon, 1962, oil on canvas, 54 × 76.5 cm

Carlos Botelho (18 September 1899, in Lisbon – 18 August 1982, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, comics artist, political cartoonist, satirist and caricaturist,[1] whose works are shown at the Chiado Museum and at the Modern Art Centre José de Azeredo Perdigão / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. Botelho was one of the most relevant Portuguese artists of his generation.[2]

  1. ^ "Carlos Botelho".
  2. ^ José Augusto França includes Botelho in the 2nd generation of 20th Century modern Portuguese painters, together with Alvarez, Mário Eloy and Bernardo Marques. FRANÇA, José Augusto - A Arte em Portugal no Século XX: 1911-1961 [1974]. Lisbon: Bertrand Editora, 1991, p. 183