Ida Barbarigo: Paintings 1978 - 2002
Ida Barbarigo was born in Venice in 1925 into a family of sculptors, painters and architects. After studying classics and a little architecture, she went to the Academy of Fine Art in Venice. In 1948 she started to learn about modern art, and began to travel abroad. During this period she was working in Venice, in an artist's studio in the home of the Carmini family, as well as in the streets and cafés. Her painting had little in common with the fashions of the time, and she continued her work in isolation, faithful to her own vision of the real world. Since 1952 she has been based in Paris, where she works for a large part of the year. But she returns regularly to Venice, and in 1978 she moved into a large old artist's studio, where she believes she has recaptured the atmosphere of the house she grew up in. Ida Barbarigo has also worked in engraving, notably etching, where we find the same main themes that we find in her painting. Her works can be found in a number of museums (Munich, Nuremberg, Venice, Paris etc.) and private collections all over the world.