Adriana Bisi Fabbri
Born in Ferrara in 1881 to a well-to-do family (she was a cousin and friend of Umberto Boccioni), Adriana Bisi Fabbri was a self-taught painter.
Her artistic career can be divided into two distinct periods. The first was from 1906 to 1914, the year of the first Exhibition of the “Nuove Tendenze” at the Famiglia Artistica, the second from 1915, when she started contributing drawings and caricatures to “Il popolo d’Italia”, to 1918, when she died of Spanish flu.
In her first period she concentrated on religious themes, self-portraits, and portraits painted largely on commission.
From 1915 she worked mostly on caricatures and illustrations for articles, signing herself “Adrì”. Among other things she painted book covers and made dolls, anticipating the modern figure of the book illustrator, associated with the growth of the printing and publishing industry.
