Francisco Rebolo Gonsales, widely known as Francisco Rebolo, or just Rebolo (August 22, 1902 in

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– July 10, 1980 in São Paulo), was a Brazilian painter. He was a son of Spanish immigrants that arrived at Brasil in the end of 19th century.

Biography

He lived intensely two different life paths: he was a football player (soccer player, in United States terms), from 1917 a 1932. He played for

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, from 1921 to 1927, and for Ypiranga after that. Both have their headquarters in São Paulo city. From 1934 on, he became a painter. He was founder of Grupo Santa Helena, together with Fulvio Pennacchi, Aldo Bonadei, Humberto Rosa, Manuel Martins,

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, Alfredo Volpi and Alfredo Rizzotti. Rebolo is considered as one of the most important

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of Brazilian art. His work is estimated in more than 3.000 paintings, hundreds of drawings, and a set of fifty

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an in ...

images. Besides landscapes, he also had an important work with

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this r ...

s and still life paintings, particularly of flowers. Nowadays, Rebolo works figure in the main Brazilian

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

s, in the

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of cultural and governmental organizations, as well as in privately held collections all over Brazil. Rebolo was also the creator of the

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of the Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, drawn in the 1930s.

References

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Obras de Rebolo
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Relatório Fapesp 2005
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Site Oficial
', or "Francisco Rebolo Official Homepage"

Biography

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