Maluda
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Title: Lighthouses on the Portuguese coast
Technique: silkscreen
Dimensions: 59cm x 48cm
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Reference: M0001
Price: 625 €
Title: Lighthouses on the Portuguese coast
Technique: silkscreen
Dimensions: 59cm x 48cm
Edit: -
Reference: M0002
Price: 625 €
About Maluda
1934: Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro, known as Maluda, was born in the city of Panjim, in North Goa, Goa, in the then Portuguese State of India.
1948 : Lives in Lourenço Marques (current_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_ ), where he started to paint and where he trained with four more painters, group called "Os Independentes", which collectively exhibited in 1961, 1962 and 1963.
1963 : She obtained a scholarship from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and traveled to Portugal, where he worked with master Roberto de Araújo in Lisbon.
1964 to 1967 : Lived in Paris, as a Gulbenkian scholarship holder. There she worked at Academia de la Grande Chaumière with the masters Jean Aujame and Michel Rodde. It was at that time that she became interested in portraiture and compositions that synthesize the urban landscape, with a very characteristic color palette and a brilliant use of light, which give her works a very own and unmistakable identity.
1976 to 1978 : She received a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation again, studying at London.
1985: from this year on, she is invited to make several series of stamps for os CTT . Two stamps of his own won, at World Government Stamp Printers Conference, at Washington, at em Périgueux (France), em for the 1989 "best world award."
1978 : She also began to dedicate herself to the theme of windows, trying to use them as a metaphor for the public-private composition.
1979 received the "Prémio de Pintura" da Academia Nacional de Belas Artes de Lisboa . That year she also held an exhibition at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris.
1994 : Received the prestigious "Bordalo Pinheiro Award", awarded by Casa da Imprensa. As part of the "Lisbon Capital of Culture", she held a solo exhibition no Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon.
1998 : On October 13th, she is awarded by the President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio with the rank of Grand Officer of the Order of the Infant Dcf 13 Henrique , at the same time that he held his last solo exhibition, "Os Selos de Maluda", sponsored by CTT.
1999 : Died in Lisbon a 10 February. Her body was buried in the Artists' Field of Cemitério dos Prazeres, in Lisbon. In testament, the artist instituted the "Maluda Award" which, for some years, was awarded by Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes .
2009 : A book was published marking the tenth anniversary of her death, bringing together almost all of his vast work and which had the High Sponsorship of the President of the Republic. In the same year, the Assembly of the Republic, in Lisbon, honored her with a large retrospective exhibition
If you are looking for more city themed art, take a look at António Joaquim, Pantoja Rojão, Carlos Dugos and Espieux´s work.