Abel Manta
(1888 - 1982)

Abel Manta was an architect, painter, designer, and Portuguese cartoonist.
Between 1908 and 1915 Manta attended the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, completing the course in painting, having won the third Prize of the National Society of Fine Arts.
In 1919 he went to Paris participating in the "Salon de la Société Nationale" among other galleries, having also attended the course of engraving with William Schlumberger. While there he met his wife, the Portuguese artist Clementina Carneiro de Moura.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Manta

Game of checkers
1927
Oil on canvas
106 x 116 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov.pt/en/pecas/ver/124/artist