Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira


Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira, was a Portuguese painter and poet. He is better known by the two pseudonyms he used: Júlio, as a painter; and Saul Dias as a poet. He was an important artist of the second generation of Portuguese Modernism. His art features a strong expression of lyricism and artistic explorations that could be connected with the expressionist and surrealist movements.
Júlio was the younger brother of writer José Régio, with whom he formed an artistic partnership his whole life, illustrating many of his books.