In a desperate and premature way, he fell in love. He dreamed. He created in the lyrical world of his soul a deluded dream of love. Thus, he built fortune castles full of tenderness. All the money that fell into his hands, he spent on armfuls of flowers sent to his beloved beauty.... In her honour, he made inspired drawings and painted pictures such as 'Fugue'
In 1927, Eloy moved to Berlin, where he married. In 1933, he returned to Portugal for good, leaving behind his wife Dora, who never managed to adjust to his native country, as well as his son. In 1939, mother and son fled first to Czechoslovakia and then to the Netherlands.
Mário Eloy (Algés, 15 March 1900 - Lisbon, 5 September 1951) was a Portuguese expressionist painter. In 1944, he had to leave painting because of a serious mental illness and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution in Rio de Mouro.
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