SEPTEMBER SILENCE – BY ABEL CARDOZO 🍂🎨

There are paintings that need no words — they breathe on their own, like the warm breeze at the end of summer. This work by Abel Cardozo, dated 1949 and exhibited at the prestigious Spring Exhibition of the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in 1950, is one of those rare cases 🍁.

Painted at the Quinta da Gracinha, in Guimarães, this rural landscape glows with a golden light that seems to gently fall upon the rooftops, the trees, and time itself. It is a suspended moment — between the end of a season and the beginning of memory. Cardozo’s brush, both confident and delicate, captures not only the scene, but the soul of the place. The countryside is not merely depicted — it is felt.

It’s a privilege to have this work in the Batalha Collection. A testimony to post-war Portuguese painting, created with truth, melancholy, and a deep connection to the land and its roots 🌾🇵🇹.