Anita Malfatti - Interior

Interior. 1950 - oil without card - interior. 1950 - óleo sem cartão 

Anita Malfatti (1889 to 1964)

She was one of the most important brazilian artist of the first phase of modernism. She studied arts and painting in Europe, where she stayed for four years, in Berlin, Germany (1910-1914) at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. She lived in New York from 1915 to 1916, where she further deepened her painting knowledge at Arts Students League of New York and at Independent School of Art. In 1917 Anita gathered 53 of her works with a strong expressionist tendency to make her first solo exhibition in São Paulo, called "Exposição de Pintura Moderna Anita Malfatti". In 1922 with her friend Mário de Andrade, participated in the Week of Modern Art. She was part of the "Group of Five" integrated by Malfatti, Mario de Andrade, Tarsila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade and Menotti del Picchia. Between the years 1923 and 1928 she lived in Paris with a scholarship. She returned to São Paulo in 1928 and began teaching design at Mackenzie University until 1933. She died in 1964, having carried out during her life countless exhibitions inside and outside of Brazil. This oil on canvas above is called "A Boba", one of her best known works, and belongs to the Contemporary Art Museum of São Paulo University Collection.