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René Bertholo was a Portuguese painter and printmaker active from the 1950s onwards, working in abstraction and figuration across oil, acrylic, and graphic media. His practice emerged within Portugal's postwar artistic landscape, engaging with modernist formal experimentation while maintaining a connection to Iberian visual tradition. Bertholo's work navigated between geometric abstraction and lyrical figuration, often incorporating gestural mark-making and layered compositional structures.