Mário Eloy

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Mário Eloy (15 March 1900 in Algés – 5 September 1951 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese expressionist painter.

Mário Eloy

Eloy was born in

Carl Hofer
.

After returning to Portugal, he became the best representative from expressionism in the Portuguese painting. Some of his latter works, like "Enterro" (c. 1940), in his references, seems to anticipate the surrealism painting in Portugal.

In year 1944, he had to leave painting due to a serious

mental disease and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution at Rio de Mouro
, where he died.

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