Abstract:


Bice Lazzari (1900 – 1981) was one of the protagonists of the twentieth century, an independent woman who was far ahead of her time. She devoted her entire life to art, succeeding in establishing herself in a field that was not considered appropriate for a woman at the time. She began to attend decoration courses at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1916, although she preferred painting courses, which were barred to her because of the nude lessons considered unsuitable for a young lady from a good family. A forerunner of abstract, conceptual and very contemporary painting, from a young age she worked in the field of applied art, considered more suitable for a female artist, working with the most fashionable architects of the 1930s and 1940s.

Over the course of her life, Bice Lazzari produced an important body of works on canvas and paper, ranging from the figurative works of her youth to the informal experiments of the 1950s – 1960s, to the perfect geometric abstraction that she practised from the mid–1960s to the early 1980s.