Stuart Carvalhais e o modernismo em Portugal. Colecção Artes / Ilustradores.

Lisbon, Vega, [1987?].. Folio (28.9 x 21.9 cm.), original illustrated wrappers with dust jacket. In very good condition. 143 pp., smaller errata slip loosely inserted, profusely illustrated (a few illustrations in color), bibliography. Also loosely inserted is a 28.9 x 21.9 cm. booklet of 14 pp., (1 blank l.) with self-covers (front cover illustrated), titled As aventuras do Quim e do Manecas por Stvart, with an introduction by Adolfo Simões Müller on p. [2], and pp. 3-14 consisting of reproductions of comic strips by Stuart Carvalhais. *** Second edition. First published 1980. The multifaceted Portuguese artist Stuart Carvalhais (José Herculano Stuart Torrie de Almeida Carvalhais, Vila Real 1887-Lisbon 1961), son of a Portuguese father and British mother, spent several years of his infancy in Spain. Painter, designer, illustrator, and caricaturist, he also worked with photography, interior decoration, tiles, theatrical set design, and cinema. Considered one of the pioneers of comic strip on Portugal, he is thought to be one of Portugal's greatest caricaturists. *** See José Augusto França, A arte em Portugal no século XX, pp. 33, 110; Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (revised ed.), V, 260-1; Grande enciclopédia, XXX, 117-8; Actualização, X, 300.