1980, Signed, Exhibition Catalog, Aglaia Papa, Greece, National Gallery Athens

Αγλαΐα Παπά

Aglaia Papa

Exhibition Catalog 

Published by National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum Athens in 1980

Hand signed by Aglaia Papa

30 + 64 Pages

First Edition

Original Soft Binding

21 cm x 25 cm

Aglaia Papa (1904–1984) was a distinguished Greek painter known for her contributions to modern Greek art.. She attended courses in painting in Corfu with Marco Zavitzianos and Konstantinos Parthenis. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Nikolaos Lytras, Konstantinos Parthenis and Thomas Thomopoulos. After graduating she continued to study in Trieste, Milan and Vienna, where she took classes in art history. She returned to Greece and became a teacher of painting and decorative arts at the Vocational School of Amalieiou Orphanage. She held several solo exhibitions, and she participated in group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1934 and 1936) and Alexandria (1957). Her earlier work was mainly landscapes and portraits. Later she produced purely abstract compositions. Her sister was the writer Katina Papa.