Fernando de Azevedo
(1923–2002)


Fernando José Neves de Azevedo was a Portuguese painter.
He graduated from the António Arroio School of Decorative Arts, in Lisbon. He then enrolled at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, which he ended up abandoning. He exhibited for the first time in 1943, with Marcelino Vespeira and Júlio Pomar. He followed the beginning of the neorealist movement in 1945-46, but the following year he co-founded the Lisbon Surrealist Group (a movement with objectives contrasting with those of neorealism); In 1949 he participated in the group's first and only exhibition, which disbanded shortly afterwards. In 1952 he was one of the three participants in the important exhibition held at Casa Jalco, Lisbon, which the artists dedicated to the precursor of surrealism in Portugal, António Pedro. "An exhibition of «oil, photography, gouache, drawing, concealment, collage, linoleum» composed of three «First Solo Exhibitions» by Fernando de Azevedo, Fernando de Lemos and Vespeira".

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Azevedo

Personagens preciosas
1950–1951
Oil on pressed cardboard
35 x 27 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov.pt/en/pecas/ver/65/artist