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Adriana Pincherle
Adriana Pincherle (1905- 1996). A lady with a turban and green shadows.

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Adriana Pincherle, (1905, Rome - 1996, Florence). A lady with a turban and green shadows in a landscape. Italian female painter, active in Rome and from 1943 in Florence. Painting signed and dated lower right: Adriana Pincherle. 1973. Oil painting on canvas. The simple composition, which represents a woman from behind, bears the influence of Matisse's avant-garde style, with bold and refined color combinations. The shape is created with color, creating an almost surreal and highly expressive effect. The painter once said: "My painting has always been figurative, not realistic. In this sense I felt very similar to the Informal movement, which, fundamentally, pushed my passion for color to the extreme." FREE SHIPPING in Italy and Europe Artist Biography: Pincherle Adriana Rome 25 December 1905 - Florence 8 January 1996 Adriana was born in Rome on 25 December 1905, into a family in which two cultures were intertwined: the Jewish one of her father, the engineer Carlo Pincherle, of Venetian origins and in love with painting, and the Catholic one of her mother, Isa di she. De Marsanich, a noble but decayed Hungarian. Adriana is the eldest child and two years older than her brother Alberto, known to the literary world under the pseudonym Alberto Moravia As Pincherle herself says about her, as a child she spent hours admiring her father who painted watercolours, and it was perhaps then that her interest in drawing and above all her particular sensitivity towards color was born. Thus, having completed her classical studies, she began to attend the "ladies" atelier of the engraver Alfredo Petrucci and the free nude courses at the Academy, where she met Mimmo Spadini and Scipione, and came into contact with Roman art. In 1931 she made her debut at the collective "First Roman exhibition of female art" at the "Galleria di Roma", while the following year, at the same gallery, she exhibited a solo show together with Corrado Cagli, already attracting the attention of critics, famous comment by Longhi, cited several times by Pincherle herself, who prefers the "sissy" between the two artists. As evidence of the results achieved by Adriana since her first works, we remember that among her works presented in 1932 there was also the famous "Standing Self-Portrait", now in the Uffizi Pincherle's growth passes through places and periods common to both the Roman School and the school of painters of the via Cavour group (Mafai, Raphaël, Scipione), with tangents and deviations, but his pictorial research arrives at original solutions independent of any label . Fundamental to the maturation of her art was her stay in Paris in 1933, in which Pincherle admired and studied closely the Fauves, Renoir and in particular Matisse. In the same year she exhibited for the first time in Florence at the Sala d'arte delle Nazioni with Milena Barilli and at the "Galerie de la Jeune Europe" in Paris. She knows Paulucci and consequently Menzio, Levi and Chessa, that is, the founders of the "I sei di Torino" group, who for Pincherle are a stimulus for the private re-elaboration of French art. In 1934 she participated in the "Mostra d'Arte Italiana Contemporanea", a traveling exhibition in the USA, while the following year she exhibited at the II Quadrennial in Rome and at the "La Cometa" gallery, presented by de Libero. In recent years, during a personal visit to Genoa, she met the painter Onofrio Martinelli, whom she married in 1943, moving with him to Florence and creating a human and artistic partnership. Together they frequented the Caffè delle Giubbe Rosse, a meeting place for the intellectuals who gravitated around the magazine «Solaria», a habit that would inspire him to create a gallery of portraits of these men of letters in the 1960s. Sixteen of these were donated to the G.P. Cabinet. Vieusseux in 1978 and now permanently exhibited in the reading room of the Contemporary Archives. With the promulgation of the racial laws, Pincherle's Jewish origins forced the two artists to take refuge in safe places, including Bibbiena, Vallombrosa, Taranto. Immediately after the Liberation they made a trip to Paris, a stay that became an annual anniversary for the artist couple, in continuous evolution and comparison In the following years Pincherle participated in numerous exhibitions in Rome, Florence, Milan, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1948, at the XXV Biennale in 1950, at the Galleria del Vantaggio in Rome in 1955, a personal exhibition presented by Roberto Longhi, which testifies to the recognition of the artistic maturity achieved through an original pictorial journey. After Martinelli's death, in 1966, the painter continued her activity by exhibiting annually and found inspiration for her works in her studio in Via de' Bardi in Florence where she painted until the last days of Martinelli's life. she; she died on January 8, 1996.
  • Creator:
    Adriana Pincherle (1905 - 1996, Italian)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 22.45 in (57 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Firenze, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2464214051592
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