Oh My Love, If You Find Yourself — Bernardo Loureiro Marques

Oh my love, if you find yourself

A romantic painting on glass by Bernardo Marques capturing a couple in a fruit-filled boat under a poetic sky, offering a timeless piece of Portuguese art history for your private collection.


Bernardo Loureiro Marques (1898 - 1962)

Otkrijte poetične pejzaže i satirične karikature Portugalije Bernarda Loureira Marquesa. Istražite njegov razvoj od grafičke umetnosti do slikanja pejzaža – ključne figure u istoriji portugalske umetnosti.

National Museum of Ethnology (Lisbon, Portugal)

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Painting on glass, framed, with pictorial composition allusive to the popular quatrain written in the centre of lower section. Underneath the latter, the ex-libris of Bernardo Marques (1898-1962), a painter, illustrator and graphic artist, friend of António Ferro, who was one of the painters-decorators of the Bureau for National Propaganda (Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional - SPN), the department of the dictatorial regime of Estado Novo charged with the organization of the Portuguese pavilions in several international exhibitions held in the 1930s. He also integrated the team of decorators of the pavilions of the Exhibition of the Portuguese World (1940). After its closure, he collaborated, from 1943 onwards, in the adaptation of the