Dreamer

In reaction to the official currents of the Novecento, expressionist-realist ferments soon appeared in Rome too. Working alongside Scipione and Mafai, Antonietta Raphael represented the link to strands of European culture which, from Chagall to Soutine to Modigliani, interpreted the anguished pathos of the Jewish and Eastern world in a naïve primitivism, rich in imaginative overtones.