Adriana Pincherle

[2] Pincherle made her artistic debut in 1931 in the group show “Prima mostra romana d'arte femminile” at the Galleria di Roma, where Roberto Longhi noticed her.

[2] Newly returned to Florence in 1933, Pincherle made her first appearance in the Sala d’arte delle Nazioni and in the Galerie de la Jeune Europe in Paris.

[1] With the arrival of World War II and racial discrimination, Pincherle was forced to hide in small towns including Bibbiena, Vallombrosa and Taranto due to her Jewish heritage.

[1] After the end of the war, the couple began a series of annual trips to Paris in continual search of contemporary French artworks.

[4] In her style, characterized by vibrant colors, you can recognize her homages to the works of Scipione, the darting brushstrokes typical of Carlo Levi, and other techniques practiced by painters that influenced her in 1933, among them Soutine, Pascin, Chagall, and Derain.

“Passavo delle ore a guardarlo dipingere, mi affascinava” ("I spent hours watching him paint, it fascinated me").