Beautiful and rare bronze medal with high reliefs of "The drunks" , based on the oil painting of José Malhoa 1907.
The painter José Malhoa Between 1867 and 1875 he was a disciple at the Academy of Fine Arts of Lisbon of Vítor Bastos, Annunciation and M. A. Lupi. Depreive twice on the State Exchange for Paris temporarily abandons the painting until, in 1881, the exhibition of the painting A Seara Invadida in Madrid earned him critical appreciation. As one of the founders of the Lion Group, he connected himself to the Naturalist movement then generated around Silva Porto. He was an exhibitor for the Society for The Promoter of Fine Arts (1880, 1884, 1887), the Leo Group (1881 to 1889), the Artistic Guild (1891 to 1899) and, since 1901, has been a regular presence in the halls of the National Society of Fine Arts (SNBA). He received the Medal of Honor (1903) and several First SNBA Medals and was elected its President in 1918.
From 1897 to 1912 he participated in the Salon de Paris, where he received an Honorable Mention in 1901 and the Legion of Honor in 1905. He won second Medals at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900, at the Berlin (1896) and Madrid (1901) and first Medals in Barcelona (1910) and Buenos Aires (1910). He received Medals of Honor at the International Exhibition of Rio de Janeiro (1908) and Panama Pacific (S. Francisco, 1915).
His gender paintings, a kind of "national rustic odyslocation" as Fialho considered them, in his typological fixation of peasant customs and habits, reconstitute the ruralist mental imaginary of Monarchical and Republican Portugal. Appreciated by both regimes as the author par excellence of a certain "Portugueseism" devoid of ideological convictions, of a sunny and pagancostumism, which episodic scenes of urban customs painted since the 1920s have not contaminated, Malhoa has become the most popular of Portuguese painters, a reputation that still today holds. A portraitist also received official orders in this genre, and performed historical compositions of decorative pendor for the Palace of Help (1890), Constituent Assembly (1891), Lisbon City Council (1899) and Military Museum (1907 – 08).
He died in Figueiró dos Vinhos, where he had an atelier, in 1933. The following year, the Estado Novo inaugurated in his hometown (which, in 1928, had already honored him with individual exhibition and statue by Costa Mota) a Museum with his name, the only State Museum that the regime conceived from scratch.
Posthumously, he was consecrated major retrospective exhibitions in 1928 (SNBA) and 1983 (SNBA and José Malhoa Museum).
The painting belongs to the museum of contemporary art.
The medal was made by the sculptor S. Machado.
Has 10 cm x 7.2 cm ; 4 mm thickness, and weighs 221 grams.
Good condition.