The Greyhounds

Amadeo de Sousa-Cardoso, a pioneer in abstraction in 1914, who worked on single paintings combined with a collage of everyday objects in 1917, also had an affinity to the Dadaist movement. He died at a young age in 1918 of pneumonia and was a big name at the forefront of Portuguese art in the early twentieth-century. In this first work from 1911, suggestions of Art Nouveau are denoted in the curve…