Born in 1931 in Naples, Italia. Lives and works in Rome, Italia.
Acknowledgements: Gisela Capitain, Cologne
In old age, you can have courageous feelings and free gestures
Born in Naples, Italy, in 1931, Isabella Ducrot is a young artist with a young career. Like many women of her generation, she moved into art after raising her children. Her formative years were marked by continuous travels with her late husband, during which they amassed hundreds of Persian miniatures and rare antique textiles of many kinds.
Surrounded by a collection featuring baroque paintings by artists such as Battistello Caracciolo, Carlo Dolci, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Luca Giordano, alongside dozens of cheerful Persian and Indian miniatures, as well as fragments of 17th-century rugs and other historical fabrics, Isabella Ducrot faced a real and demanding opportunity to build her own body of work. She took up the challenge a few decades ago, transcribing stories and quotations on paper, fabrics, and collages.
Over the years, she has created a large number of daring artworks—smooth, translucent, colorful, and/or strictly minimalist—depicting landscapes and couples in tender love, for instance.
— Franck Gautherot & Seungduk Kim
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