Six centuries of artistic creation
1926-1969 Portugal
D'Assumpção made this painting during his last stay in Berlin. In his full artistic maturity, he accurately works the forms and their fragmentation, in a structure between abstraction and cubist reminiscences, inseparable from the palette of dark, black, brown, and grey hues, in contrast to the blues and reds of the central composition, achieving a dense composition, of intense visual power. A painter in constant questioning, disillusioned with the world and life, D'Assumpção lived in France for several years, travelled around Europe, absorbed new visual languages such as expressionism, cubism or geometric abstraction. Driven by a strong mysticism which he projects onto his painting, from the late 1950s he found in abstraction a field of transcendence and escape from reality.
| Oil on canvas, 128 x 190 cm
| CRATO. Municipal Museum of Crato
