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Julio

Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira was born on 1 November 1902 and died on 17 January 1983 in Vila do Conde. He was a poet, painter and civil engineer. He attended the Painting course at the School of Fine Arts of Porto and was an illustrator for the magazine Presença directed by his brother and poet José Régio, who wrote and prefaced his exhibitions. He signed his plastic work as Julio and used the pseudonym of Saúl Dias in his literary work. He is considered one of the first artists to introduce the surrealist imagery in Portugal, still in the 1930s. In 1941, he married Maria Augusta da Silva Ventura and from this union his only son was born, José Alberto Ventura Reis Pereira, who bequeathed part of his father’s artistic work to the FCM.