(Sim?o C?sar) D?rdio Gomes

(b Arraiolos, Alentejo, 1890; d Oporto, 1976). Portuguese painter. After studying at the Escola de Belas Artes in Lisbon and spending a year in Paris (1910-11), he returned to Alentejo and painted naturalistic portraits of individuals and of groups from the region. During a second sojourn in Paris (1921-6) he was impressed by the work of C?zanne, whose influence is felt in his landscapes of the 1920s and 1930s, for example Houses in Malakoff (1923; Oporto, Mus. N. Soares dos Reis), and in the paintings of horses, 1927-30. He returned to a romantic regionalism in the series of large oil panels depicting agricultural activities and local festivities for the town hall in Arraiolos. In 1933 he moved to Oporto, where he was an influential teacher at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes until 1960. He continued to paint landscapes as well as executing numerous frescoes with mythological or religious themes for public places, for example the Assumption of the Virgin (1953; Oporto, Church of the Redemption).

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