🎨✨ FRANCIS SMITH (1881-1961) – "SANTA" ✨🎨
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🎨✨ FRANCIS SMITH (1881-1961) – “SANTA” ✨🎨

Category:

🖌 Medium: Oil on canvas
🖊 Signed on the front
📐 27 x 22 cm

Biography & Artistic Influence:

A pioneer of modernism, Francis Smith was a close associate of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, with whom he traveled to France in 1907. Although he spent over fifty years in Paris, his work remained deeply connected to Portuguese themes, capturing its charm and poetic essence.

His paintings evoke Portuguese life, from Lisbon’s winding streets to the blooming springs of the Algarve, characterized by carefully simplified forms and a vibrant, luminous palette.

Smith also depicted Provence, yet his interpretation always carried a distinctly Portuguese character.

🖼 His work is housed in the Museu do Chiado, state collections, and some of the most significant private collections in Portugal. 🇵🇹✨