ABSTRACT
Jose de Almada Negreiros is one of the key figures in twentieth-century Portuguese culture. Almada's entrance into the Portuguese artistic world was relatively low-key: his works were humorous and satirical drawings in newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1912. The sureness of the drawn expression has a very different fictional support from the one of the years in which Almada was 'Futurist and everything'. The last long phase of Almada's work lay outside the modernism in which he had grown as an artist. In 1923, this historic place was remodelled by one of the fashionable architects of the time in line with the taste for Art Nouveau and decorated with paintings by leading modern artists, including Almada. Almada's good relationship with the regime can be seen in the large amount of decorative work that he did for architectural spaces, in partnership with his great friend and protector, the architect Porfirio Pardal Monteiro.
