Candido Portinari
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Candido Portinari. Auto-retrato, 1956
Candido Portinari (December 30, 1903 - February 6, 1962) was one of the most important Brazilian painters.
Born of Italian immigrants in a coffee plantation near Brodósqui, in São Paulo Portinari studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA) in Rio de Janeiro. In 1928 he won a gold medal at the ENBA and a trip to Paris where he stayed until 1930, when he returned to Brazil.
He joined the Partido Comunista Brasileiro and stood for senator in 1947 but had to flee Brazil for Uruguay due to the persecution of Communists. He returned to Brazil in 1951 but suffered ill health during the last decade of his life and died in 1962 due to lead poisoning from his paints.