Armando de Basto

Armando Pereira de Basto (26 May 1889 in Porto – 1923 in Minho Province) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, sculptor and decorator.

While there, he came under the influence of Édouard Manet and Amedeo Modigliani and exhibited at the Salon des Humoristes held in the Palais de Glaces [fr].

Together with Aquilino Ribeiro and Tomás Leal da Câmara [pt], he helped create the magazine Génio Latino, which also numbered Manuel Jardim and Anjos Teixeira [pt] among its contributors.

[1] He was a great admirer of the caricaturists Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and Celso Hermínio [pt], so he also participated in their "Exposições de Humoristas e Modernistas", an important venue for promoting Modern art of all varieties, that was created after the establishment of the First Portuguese Republic and ran from 1912 to 1923 in Porto and Lisbon.

The following year, he returned home and, in 1916, collaborated on producing the humorous weekly newspaper Miau!, which not only included contributions from his old friends in Paris, now also returned to Portugal, but attracted art work from Théophile Steinlen, Lucien Métivet, Paul Iribe, Francisque Poulbot, Bagaria, Olaf Gulbransson and others outside Portugal as well.