Remembered more as an artist’s model than a painter, Pasquarosa, this largely forgotten female artist, is brought back into the spotlight in this charmingly fresh and colourful exhibition
Ingenious, pioneering, self-taught, the 20th-century Italian model turned artist Pasquarosa Marcelli delights in conveying everyday life in joyous colour in the first UK show of her work in almost a century
In February 1929, an exhibition by a young unknown female painter opened at the Arlington Gallery on Bond Street. This was not surprising in itself, given that the gallery specialised in lesser-known artists. More surprising was the fact that this artist was a woman – and Italian. As the critic Emilio Cecchi noted in the