Mina Anselmi - oil portrait of a woman, 1940s

Portrait of a young woman by Mina Anselmi, oil painting on canvas glued on plywood, with signature of the painter. Certificate of presentation at the Modigliana exhibition in 1963, complete with lacquered fir frame. The painting measures 30 x 35 cm, with a thickness of 2 cm.
Mina Anselmi (Vicenza 1902 - 1964), painter and decorator, was a ceramist student at the Museo Scuola Officina in Naples at the beginning of the twentieth century. She trained artistically in Venice in the studio of Alessandro Milesi, a Venetian painter from whom she will be influenced for most of her activity. Use different techniques and materials; fresco, oil on canvas, tempera on wood, charcoal, china, sanguine, watercolors... but he also created ceramics, stained glass windows, engravings and drawings.