Magia Em Cada Canção

José Malhoa

José Vital Branco Malhoa, known simply as José Malhoa (Caldas da Rainha, 28 April 1855 - Figueiró dos Vinhos, 26 October 1933) was a Portuguese painter. Malhoa was, with Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, the leading name in Portuguese naturalist painting, in the second half of the 19th century. He painted often popular scenes and subjects, like his two most famous paintings, The Drunks (1907) and Fado (1910). He always remained faithful to the naturalist style, but in some of his works, there are impressionist influences, like in his Autumn (1918), that can be considered as an "impressionist exercise". He saw at the end of his life, the inauguration of the José Malhoa Museum, in Caldas da Rainha. Malhoa's House, also known as the Dr. Anastácio-Gonçalves House-Museu… more »