Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Lucia de Souza-Cardoso (wife of the artist)
Galerie Robert-Briant, Paris
Private Collection, France

The board is stable. UV examination reveals three thin lines of retouching to the upper right corner. There is some minor wear to all four corners and parts of the extreme edges, with some associated tiny paint losses. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition. Colours: fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though the greens are more prominent and the pinks lighter in the original.
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Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, often known simply as Amadeo, was one of the few pioneers of Portuguese Modernism at the turn of the 20^th Century. Following academic training in Lisbon he moved to Paris in 1906 where he soon began to experiment with the flattened, linear style of the Parisian avant-garde. In 1911 he exhibited with Amadeo Modigliani in Paris, and in 1913 striking Cubist examples of his work, including portraits and landscapes, were shown at the Armory Show in New York and the Sturm Gallery in Berlin. Deeply affected by the outbreak of the First World War Amadeo returned to Portugal where he worked in isolation, only rarely exhibiting the bright complex collaged compositions produced in later life. Variously labelled ‘Orphist’, ‘Futurist’ and ‘Cubist’, Amadeo is rare for his rapid and keen understanding and skilful handling of the Modernist aesthetic in painting.