Sarah Affonso
Portuguese painter and illustrator (1899-1983) · Portugal · On the map · Artists · Died at 84
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.
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Although she exhibited in Paris in the late 1920s, her most important paintings date from the 1930s. She was largely forgotten until her work was presented in 2019 at Lisbon's Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
