Anita Malfatti belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Anita Malfatti as Brazilian artist (1889-1964).
Anita Malfatti was born at São Paulo in 1889. Her recorded nationality is Brazil. She trained at Mackenzie Presbyterian University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as painter and artist.
Her recorded movement is avant-garde.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Brazil shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Anita Malfatti died in 1964, aged 75. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: avant-garde
