José de Guimarães
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Collection: Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Technique: silkscreen
Dimensions: 50 X 59 cm
Editing: -
Price of each silkscreen: 615 € (without frame) 690 € (with frame)
Technique: silkscreen
Dimensions: 50 x 37.5 cm
Edition: 99 signed and numbered copies
Reference: JG0005
Price: 492 €
Technique: silkscreen
Dimensions: 56 x 38 cm
Edition: 99 signed and numbered copies
Reference: JG0006
Price: 492 €
Technique: silkscreen
Dimensions: 55 x 38 cm
Edition: 99 signed and numbered copies
Reference: JG0007
Price : 492 €
Technique: silkscreen
Dimensions: 55 x 38 cm
Edition: -
Reference: JG0008
Price : 492 €
Title: The Circus
Technique:Serigraphy
Dimensions: 73 x 54 cm
Reference: JG0009
Price: 1,537.50 €
Title: Ilha dos Amores 4
Technique:Serigraphy
Dimensions:54 x 73 cm
Reference: JG0010
Price: 1,537.50 €
About José de Guimaraes
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1939: Born on November 25, in Guimarães.
The 50's: He studied painting with Teresa de Sousa, drawing with Gil Teixeira Lopes and engraving at the Sociedade Cooperativa de Gravadores Portugueses.
1965: Graduated in Engineering.
1961 - 65: Visits Paris and comes into contact with Fauvist painting. He is fascinated by Italian classics, like Michelangelo. Also visit the exhibition paying homage to Picasso and the engraving by Carmen de Garcia.
1965: Marries Judith Castel-Branco and travels to Munich, where he comes into contact with the painting of Klee, Kandinsky, the Bauhaus painters, Die Brücke and the seventeenth-century Flemish painter Rubens.
1967 - 74: He lives in Angola on a military service commission and here he is influenced by African culture, and he himself participates in controversial cultural events.
1968: Publishes the manifesto “Disturbing Art!”.
1968: For the second time, he won the first Prize for Engraving at the Salão de Arte Moderna da Cidade de Luanda.
Late 70's: He returns definitively to Portugal and makes the visual arts his exclusive activity.
1976: Receives a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to carry out research work in the areas of serigraphy and photography.
1978 : The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation launches an exhibition, “Rubens and José de Guimarães”.
The 80s: Participates in several exhibitions about his work in Europe, with both the French and the Belgian States acquiring numerous of his works.
1989 : Exhibits individually in Tokyo, Chicago, Basel, Los Angeles, Stockholm and Salzburg and participates in group exhibitions in Denmark, Hiroshima and again in Tokyo.
1990 : Becomes Commander of the Order of Infante D.Henrique by the President of the Republic (Mário Soares) and several of his pieces are acquired by important institutions and reproduced in posters, among others.
1995 : Lives and works in Lisbon and Paris.
Current affairs: His work is internationally recognized, he participates in several exhibitions and books about his work are published, written by famous art critics such as Salette Tavares, Álvaro de Magalhães, Cesário Rodrigues-Aquilera , between others.
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