Brief Biography-Amadeo de Souza Cardoso was born in Amarante, Portugal in 1887. In 1905, he studied at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts for one year before going to Paris with the financial support of his family. There Amadeo enrolled in the studios of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and also spent some time in Brussels. He made many acquaintances with prominent artists, such as Umberto Boccioni, Amedeo Modigliani, Robert Delaunay and Juan Gris, to name but a few of his associates and friends. He influenced several notable artists as much as they influenced him.
He exhibited with the Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1911, and in 1913 he had commercial success with the Armory Show in America, a new International Exhibition of Modern Art. The show went from New York to Chicago and Boston; he was the third highest-selling painter of the exhibition. Following a journey to Spain, he returned to his family home in Manhufe village, Amarante, in 1914, he remained there while the war raged, but he died at the young age of thirty from Spanish flu in 1918. His works went into oblivion after 1914, not to generally emerge again until the 1980s, after his wife's death.