articles/Forgotten Portuguese Modernist gets Grand Palais show — theartnewspaper.com

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso in his apartment on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris. Biblioteca de Arte, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian The Grand Palais in Paris will pay overdue international attention to the Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918) in spring next year. The survey, the biggest ever exhibition of the artist’s work outside Portugal, has been co-organised with the Lisbon-based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of its Paris branch. Helena Freitas, the exhibition’s curator, says the anniversary is the “perfect excuse” to stage a major show of Souza-Cardoso’s work in the “cradle of Modernism”, where the artist lived between 1906 and 1914.

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