Paola Serra-Zanetti (Budrio,1886-Bologna,1963). “Girl on the Beach”, oil on panel.

Paola Serra-Zanetti (Budrio,1886-Bologna,1963). “Girl on the Beach”, oil on panel, circa 1930. Dimensions: 30×23 cm. Year Contemporary ebonized wooden frame present. Excellent state of preservation.

She studied at the Academy of Bologna, a disciple of Domenico Ferri. Later, she attended the school of the nude and, in Munich, the Kunstlerinnverein, with the master Feldbauer. Specializing in portraiture, she did not disdain the practice of still life, both in oil and pastel techniques. She made her debut in Bologna, at the Promotrice “Francesco Francia”, exhibiting three portraits. In 1911 one of her paintings, entitled “Innocence”, was purchased by the same Society of Fine Arts “Tisi da Garofalo” of Ferrara that had curated the exhibition. During the First World War, she was a nurse for the Red Cross. After the war, she participated in the Exhibition of Female Portraits held in Monza in 1924. In the following years, she participated in the First Exhibition of Decorative Art and in the exhibitions of the Famiglia Artistica of Milan. At the same time, she held personal exhibitions in Milan and Rome. A painter still to be discovered and evaluated, in my very modest opinion her canvases represent a high dialectical moment between the Austrian and German art of the early 900s and the great tradition of Padanian figuration.

Provenance: Ravenna, Private Collection.

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