Bidspirit auction | Manuel Figueira (1938-2023)

Manuel Figueira (1938-2023) - ”Donkey”, 1972. Acrylic on paper depicting a zoomorphic subject (donkey) in the Cubist style. Signed. Dated ‘1972’. Framed __________ ”Manuel Figueira was born in Mindelo (Cape Verde) in 1938 and lived in Portugal between 1960 and 1974, where he completed his degree in Painting at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He returned to Cape Verde in 1975 to help revitalise the archipelago’s popular culture and, in 1976, founded the Cooperativa Resistência, together with his wife, Luísa Queirós, and his colleague, Bela Duarte, with the aim of keeping traditional Cape Verdean weaving alive. Between 1978 and 1989, he was director of the National Centre for Handicrafts. Since 1963, he has built his career through exhibitions in both group and solo shows, notably in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, France, the United States of America, Portugal and, of course, Cape Verde.” – Taken from ‘ Vatican News ’”