Álvaro Perdigão

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Álvaro Perdigão
Self-portrait
Born	(1910-05-22)22 May 1910 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	10 March 1994(1994-03-10) (aged 83) Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Occupation	Artist

Álvaro Perdigão (22 May 1910 – 10 March 1994) was a Portuguese painter.

Biography

Álvaro Perdigão was born in May 1910, in the same year of the establishment of the Portuguese Republic. In Setubal, a small town 50 km to the south of Lisbon, he attends the Bocage Secondary School. He starts studying Art under the supervision of painter Lázaro Lozano in 1917, when he was around seventeen years old, leaving in 1929.

Álvaro Perdigão’s apprenticeship takes him to the School of Fine Arts and to the National Conservatoire, where he attends a course in scenography. Whilst studying, he holds various jobs: designer at the Fiscalization Commission for the Urban Topographic department, between 1939 and 1948. However, he ends up dedicating most of his professional life to teaching. He is designated teacher of Technical Teaching at the Marquês de Pombal Industrial School in Lisbon, in 1948. He joins the staff of Casa Pia in Lisbon in 1950, having been invited by the school’s board to become the designated Painting Teacher, job he holds until 1980. Meanwhile, he meets art colleagues, such as the sculptors Martins Correia, Raul Xavier and Helder Baptista, amongst others. He also engages in volunteer work, teaching evening classes at the National Society of Fine Arts.

He begins his artistic career soon enough. In 1929, at the young age of nineteen he holds his first individual art exhibition, at the Clube Naval of Setubal. From then on, he keeps regular contact with his audience. During his career, his work is shown, in Portugal and abroad, both in individual and collective exhibitions. In 1951/1952, he becomes vice president of the Board of the National Society of Fine Arts, and in 1974 he joins the Parallel Group, together with António Carmo, João Hogan, Querubim Lapa, Gil Teixeira Lopes amongst others.

Álvaro Perdigão experimented and applied various painting techniques. His work is vast, showing oil painting as the predominant technique, even though he also produced drawings, water colours, ceramics, stained glass, engravings in various materials. His art shows a large spectrum of colours - greys, blues, greens, ochers, briques, yellows, browns, reds – spread in complex structured patches on the canvas; his canvases, prepared by the artist himself, aware made of thick linen in which the application of paint enabled an embossed texture.

It is important to highlight the main topic areas, vast and diversified, which the artist explored in his life’s work: the male and female figure, the natural landscape and still lives. Through his work, the artist expressed his vision and interpretation of the life of the common man in his daily chores. He died in Lisbon in 1994.

Awards

Individual exhibitions

1929 – Clube Naval Setubalense
1930, 1931 – Liceu Bocage
1934 – Câmara Municipal de Coimbra
1936 – Galeria UP
1943 – Galeria Instanta, Lisboa 1951, 1961, 1962 (Monotipias e Óleos)
1963 – Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes
1961, 1969,1971 – Galeria do Casino Estoril
1963 – Coliseu do Porto
1962, 1985 – Museu de Setúbal
1962, 1965 – Junta de Turismo da Costa do Sol, Estoril
1968 (Óleos),1969 – Galeria Nacional de Arte 1969, 1970, 1971 (xilogravura) – Museu de Angra do Heroísmo
1969 – Galeria Interforma
1970 – Galeria o “Primeiro de Janeiro” (pintura e gravura), Coimbra; Caves Fonseca
1971, 1974 – Galeria do “Diário de Notícias”
1972 – Galeria Cema, Madrid
1973 – Clarkson Galleries, Edimburgo
1975 – Galeria Abel Salazar, Porto
1976, 1979, 1983, 1987 – (o Esconderijo e outras obras, óleos e escultura em rede de arame)– Galeria S. Francisco
1989 (Do Alto de St. Justa e outras Pinturas Mais) – Galeria S. Francisco
1991,1993 (Velhas e Novas Realidades) – Galeria S. Francisco
1979 – Museu de Castelo Branco
1991 – Primeiro Aniversário da Galeria de Arte da Casa do Pessoal da RTP
2012 - Exposição antológica no Museu do Neo-Realismo, em Vila Franca de Xira