Armando Pereira de Basto (26 May 1889 in

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– 1923 in Minho Province) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, sculptor and decorator.

Biography

He attended the "Escola Superior de Belas-Artes do Porto" from 1903 to 1910, where he studied with and João Marques de Oliveira and was awarded the "Prémio Soares dos Reis", given in honor of the sculptor António Soares dos Reis.Brief biography
@ the University of Porto website. In 1910, he went to Paris to complete his studies. While there, he came under the influence of

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and Amedeo Modigliani and exhibited at the ''Salon des Humoristes'' held in the . Together with Aquilino Ribeiro and , he helped create the magazine ''Génio Latino'', which also numbered Manuel Jardim and among its contributors. He was a great admirer of the caricaturists

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and , so he also participated in their "Exposições de Humoristas e Modernistas", an important venue for promoting Modern art of all varieties, that was created after the establishment of the

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and ran from 1912 to 1923 in Porto and Lisbon. In 1914, he was diagnosed with

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and had to be hospitalized. The following year, he returned home and, in 1916, collaborated on producing the humorous weekly newspaper ''Miau!'', which not only included contributions from his old friends in Paris, now also returned to Portugal, but attracted art work from

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, Lucien Métivet, Paul Iribe,

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, Bagaria,

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and others outside Portugal as well. He also served as Editor for several long-forgotten humorous journals. He succumbed to his illness in 1923, after moving to the countryside in search of a better climate.

Selected works

File:Armando Basto, O meu violão não tem cordas, 1918, óleo sobre tela, 104,5 x 104,5 cm.jpg, Guitar Player File:Basto-Battle.jpg, Battle Scene File:Armando de Basto - Teoria da Indiferença, 1921.JPG, Cover art for ''Teoria da Indiferença'' by

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File:Armando de Basto - Mulher com xaile.jpg, Woman with Shawl

References

External links

Miau!
@ Hemeroteca Digital.
An appreciation of Basto
@ MatrizNet {{DEFAULTSORT:Basto, Armando de 1889 births 1923 deaths Portuguese illustrators Portuguese sculptors Male sculptors Artists from Porto 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Portugal Portuguese caricaturists 20th-century Portuguese painters 20th-century Portuguese male artists University of Porto alumni Portuguese male painters

Biography

Selected works

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Further reading

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