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\nSigned and dated 73
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\r\nSigned and dated 73
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\r\nThese tendencies were already noticeable during the artist\u2019s time in Lisbon, supported by a Gulbenkian Foundation grant (1971\u201372), and they were indeed further developed when he returned to Europe for a few months between 1973 and 1974, traveling through several countries and visiting studios, museums, and galleries. The work, through its composition \u2014with the monumental red figure enveloping a smaller body in a falling\/kneeling position, the dark background, pronounced diagonals, and elongated hands in an ambiguous gesture of restraint\/threat\u2014and, in particular, through its title \u201cAo menos deixem-me defender o meu filho\u201d (At Least Let Me Defend My Son), can be interpreted as referring to the political and social tension experienced at the time."}],"tags":"Modern and Contemporary Art","gallery":[{"image":{"ID":356961,"id":356961,"title":"154_82","filename":"82-1-scaled.jpg","filesize":1283835,"url":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/lot\/ao-menos-deixem-me-defender-o-meu-filho-466783568\/154_82\/","alt":"","author":"44","description":"","caption":"","name":"154_82","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":356493,"date":"2025-10-31 18:50:25","modified":"2025-10-31 18:50:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1760,"height":2560,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-scaled.jpg","medium-width":206,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-scaled.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":1117,"large":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-scaled.jpg","large-width":704,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-1056x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1056,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-1408x2048.jpg","2048x2048-width":1408,"2048x2048-height":2048,"v_medium":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-640x931.jpg","v_medium-width":640,"v_medium-height":931,"gform-image-choice-sm":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-scaled.jpg","gform-image-choice-sm-width":206,"gform-image-choice-sm-height":300,"gform-image-choice-md":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-scaled.jpg","gform-image-choice-md-width":275,"gform-image-choice-md-height":400,"gform-image-choice-lg":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-1-scaled.jpg","gform-image-choice-lg-width":413,"gform-image-choice-lg-height":600}},"is_video":false,"video_source":"","video_id":"","use_video_thumbnail":true}],"show_in_withdrawn_lots":true,"auction_session":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lot\/356494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lot"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lot"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}