VICENTE BESUGO — SEA BETWEEN CLIFFS 🌊

Some paintings smell of salt and sun. In this seascape, Vicente Besugo opens a passage of water between warm, almost flaming rocks, and lets the sea breathe in deep blues, hidden greens, and foamy whites. It feels like peeking into a sheltered corner of the coast — intimate, wild, and true.

The brushwork is rich and generously impasted, building the cliffs as if they were living stone. The sea, by contrast, vibrates in layers: sometimes silky, sometimes sharp, always in motion. A work with real presence — the kind that changes the light in a room.

Vicente António Oliveira Besugo (1931–?), an Alentejo-born painter from Vila Boim who later settled in Faro, established himself in the 20th century with a confident eye for both landscape and the figure. He produced still lifes, portraits, and Portuguese views with strong command of colour and texture, often on platex support, and his oeuvre is preserved and valued by the Vicente Besugo Foundation.

Available at Batalha Collection (Faro) / reservation and shipping available.