This writer and artist,  José Sobral de Almada Negreiros was born in S. Tomé e Príncipe on 7th  April 1893.

 He was on of the founders of the magazine “Orpheu”(1915), which was of the main source of introduction to modernism in Portugal, where he socialised close to  Fernando Pessoa.

Apart from the literature and oil paintings, Alamada  choreographed compositions for ballet.  He worked in Tapestry, engraving, mural paintings, caricature, mosaic, traditional "azulejo" tiles and windows.

He died on  15th  June 1970 in Hospital de S. Luís dos Franceses, in Lisboa,  in the same room where his friend Fernando Pessoa died.