"Little is known of Nella Marchesini. The majority of her works seem to date from the 1920s and 1930s before the policies of Mussolini forced her and her husband, the painter Ugo Malvano, to relocate to the Turinese hills. Initially working under the influence of her teacher Felice Casorati, Marchesini's rather stiff and polished studies later give way to the works that caught my eye: the diaphanous paintings of the early 1930s which in their brittle brushwork and stylisation evoke the work of her compatriot Modigliani. Unknown outside Italy, she was forgotten even there until a resurgence of interest in the 1970s saw twenty of her works acquired by the Gallery of Modern Art, Turin in 1979." http://www.themagazineantiques.com/news-opinion/discovery/2009-09-16/guest-blog/ http://www.artinconnu.com/2009/05/nella-marchesini-1901-1953.html "Born in Marina de Massa 1901 and moved to Turin at the age of 10. Studied under Felice Casorati and produced the majority of her works in the 1920's and 30's, including an important series of portraits and figure studies. She exhibited for the first time in 1921 alongside Casorati and Silvio Avondo and showed her work regularly in the following decades (Venice Biennial 1928, 1930, 1932, Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale di Roma 1931, 1935.) She had major shows at Galleria Milano (1929, 1931) and Galleria Valle in Genova (1930.) Marchesini married the painter Ugo Malvano in 1930 and worked closely with him in the following years, moving away from the teachings of Casorati. She painted many works featuring her family, especially her father, at this time. During the political upheaval of the late 1930's in Italy, especially the new racial policies which affected her husband, Marchesini was forced to relocate to the Turinese hills. Here, removed from the political and artistic circles she and her husband had enjoyed, she worked mainly on small sketches and poster design." http://www.artinconnu.com/2009/05/nella-marchesini-1901-1953.html undefined

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