Nuno San-Payo
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Nuno San-Payo was born in Lisbon in 1926 and died in the same city in 2014. A painter, he took part in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s 1st Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1957, in the "Retrospectiva da Pintura Não-Figurativa em Portugal", held in 1958 at the Faculty of Sciences in Lisbon alongside artists such as Almada Negreiros, Fernando Lanhas, Joaquim Rodrigo, Lourdes Castro and René Bertholo, and in the Foundation’s 2nd Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1961.
In 1974 he was a member of the Democratic Movement of Visual Artists and was among the artists photographed after the action of 28 May that year at the Palácio Foz in Lisbon, when the statues of Salazar and António Ferro were covered up.
His work featured in "Arte Portuguesa Contemporânea", which toured Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 1976-1977, in "Antevisão do Centro de Arte Moderna" at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1981, and in "Arte Portuguesa nos Anos 50", which toured Portugal in 1992-1993.
He is represented in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Modern Art Centre, with works such as "Gente II" (1975).
