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[1] His early portraits – done whilst he was studying at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts –, closely related to Matisse and Modigliani; but he soon found his own voice, picturing the landscapes and the daily life of Lisbon's modern areas in personal, sensitive paintings, and distancing himself from the predominant currents in the Portuguese art world of the 1940s and 1950s.

This put him in touch with the early manifestations of Pop Art; and in London he was influenced by the 1963 Kurt Schwitters’ exhibition at the Marlborough gallery.

After returning to Portugal his work deeply changed; his pictorial space got closer to cubism and he started using collage and photo sensitized canvas.

And he was a highly influential drawing teacher – from 1965 onwards he taught at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, at the Oporto School of Fine Arts, at the Lisbon Faculty of Architecture, etc.

-, influencing a whole generation of younger Portuguese artists (Pedro Calapez, Manuel Botelho, among many others).