Margherita Pillini

Margherita Pillini was an Italian painter, active mainly in the late 19th century in Turin and Paris.[1]

Biography

Pillini was born in Lombardy and married painter Marco Pillini. For many years, she was a resident of Paris. She exhibited in 1883 at Rome: Stracciaiolo di Quimper or Stracciajuolo di Quinper ("Silk-cocoon Carder of Quimper") and Charity; in 1884 at Turin, in 1884: Three ages; Blind Poorman; Portrait del Prince of Naples; and another del vero genre painting.[2]

De Rengis in his criticism of the "Silk-cocoon Carder of Quimper" said: "If I am not mistaken, Signora Margherita Pillini has also taken this road, full of modernity, but not free from great danger. Her ' Silk-cocoon Carder' is touched with great disdain for every suggestion of the old school. Rare worth—if worth it is—that a young woman should be carried by natural inclination into such care for detail. This method of painting, opposed to solid colors, desires to be seen from a distance, leaving the eye with an infinite wish for peace." [3]

In 2019, her oil paintings were for sale on an auction site and sold between £400-1600GBP.[4]

References
  1. Istituto Matteucci biography.
  2. Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 377.
  3. Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century; by Clara Erskine Clement Waters; Houghton Mifflin and Co. Boston and NY; 1904; page 273. Additional sentence added from original Gubernatis source.
  4. https://www.invaluable.com/artist/pillini-margherita-gawtw9gpcm/sold-at-auction-prices/
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