Aglaia Papa ( el, Αγλαΐα Παπά, 1904–84) was a Greek painter.

Life

Aglaia Papa was born in Corfu in 1904. Her family lived in

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, then in the

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, now in Albania. Her older sister

Katina Papa Katina Papa ( el, Κατίνα Παπά; 1903–1959) was a Greek writer. She became well known for her poetry and novels. Life She was born in the village of Janicat in the Ottoman Empire, today part of the Finiq municipality in southern Alban ...

(1903–57) would become a well-known author. When she was a teenager the Papa family fled persecution by Turks and Albanians in the region and settled in Corfu. She attended courses in painting in Corfu with Marco Zavitzianos and

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. She studied at the

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under

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and Thomas Thomopoulos. After graduating she continued to study in

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and

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, 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. After the death of her sister Katina she arranged for publication of Katina's novel "In a girls' high school" and a collection of Katina's poems. Aglaia Papa died in

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in 1984.

Work

Papa was a prolific artist whose work was well received by contemporary critics. She held several solo exhibitions, and she participated in group exhibitions including the

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(1934 and 1936) and

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(1957). Her earlier work was mainly landscapes and portraits. Later she produced purely abstract compositions. Her ''Self-Portrait'' (1932) is on display at the

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in Athens. 23 of her paintings are held by the Municipal Gallery of Corfu. The

Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina The Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina ( el, Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη Ιωαννίνων) is an art museum in Ioannina, Greece that has been open in its current building since 2000. The collection of over 500 items ranges from classical ...

also holds some of her work.

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