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Sarah Affonso, the art name used by Sara Sancha Afonso, (1899–1983) was a Portuguese artist and illustrator who was brought up in the Minho Region in the north of the country. Adopting a modernist style, she painted scenes of rural life in her childhood province and portraits of peasant women.
Expõe no Salon d'Automne de 1928. De regresso a Lisboa, integra-se no ambiente artístico e intelectual lisboeta. Pertencente à segunda geração de pintores modernistas portugueses, contemporânea de Bernardo Marques, Mário Eloy e Carlos Botelho.
Sarah Affonso. Learn about the artist's universe through a text accompanied by a selection of works from the exhibition “All I want – Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020”.
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Sep 12, 2019 · In 1982, the year before she died, the Portuguese artist Sarah Affonso unknowingly did a series of interviews about her long life and career with her daughter-in-law, who kept a tape recorder hidden under a napkin during their conversations.
- Lauren Moya Ford
Sarah Affonso was a Portuguese painter born on 13 May 1899 in Lisbon, Portugal. She grew up in the Minho region, where she studied at the Colégio de Nossa Senhora de Monserrate. In 1915, back in Lisbon, she enrolled at the Lisbon Fine Arts School and studied under Columbano Pinheiro.
Sarah Affonso. Conheça o universo da artista num texto acompanhado por uma seleção de obras da exposição «Tudo o que eu quero – Artistas portuguesas de 1900 a 2020». Por Fundação Calouste...
This exhibition focuses on the relationship between the work of Sarah Affonso and the popular art of the Minho region. Often remembered as the wife of Almada Negreiros, Sarah Affonso was a modernist artist in her own right, with a remarkable career.