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Modern Art
Portugal’s best-known
contemporary artist, Paula
Rego (b 1935), has a very
distinct style. Her paintings
depict muscular women, fairy
tales and animals dressed in
clothes to explore the themes
of repression, feminism and
DISCOVER Portugal Your Way more modern and contem porary
politics. Casa das Histórias in
Cascais (p159) hosts changing
exhibitions of her work in a
striking pyramidal building,
designed by architect Eduardo
Souto de Moura (b 1952). For
works, check out the Museu
Calouste Gulbenkian(p122).
4,000

Admiring modern The number of years of
art in the Museu art on display in the
Calouste Gulbenkian Museu Calouste
Gulbenkian.
PORTUGAL FOR
ART LOVERS

With works gathered from all corners of the globe during Portugal’s
Age of Discovery, dynamic contemporary collections and the
world’s largest collection of original jewellery by Art Nouveau
master craftsman René Lalique, Portugal is brimming with
groundbreaking art. Here we round up the highlights.
Sculpture
Named after a leading
18th-century sculptor,
Porto’s Museu Soares dos Reis
has some great examples of
António Soares dos Reis’ work
(1847–89; p241). The high-
light of the collection is
O Desterrado (1872), a
brooding marble figure.
Lisbon’s Museu Calouste
Gulbenkian houses world-
class contemporary sculpture
by the likes of José Maria
Fernandes Marques (b 1939),
whose works are rooted in
both European and non-
Western artistic traditions.

António Teixeira Lopes’s
Childhood of Cain (1890) at
the Museu Soares dos Reis

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