Nina Negri

Nina Negri (24 December 1901 – 29 May 1981) was an Argentine-French surrealist painter and engraver who was a part of the art studio Atelier 17.

Early life and education Nina Negri was born on 24 December 1901 in Rosario to Mathilde Marino and Victor Negri. She began her artistic studies in Buenos Aires under the tuition of Benito Guzmán. Afterwards, she travelled to Oxford, Belgium and France to further her studies. Negri later returned to Argentina to study psychology and Native American anthropology. Eventually by 1921, Negri had settled in Paris,

Career Negri was introduced to printmaker Stanley William Hayter by her art teachers, and she soon began working at his studio Atelier 17. She exhibited her work with the studio, as well as at collective exhibitions including the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon de Mai in Paris.

Negri's work was displayed at the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in 1938, and apart from Hayter, was the only one to display engravings. Her work was displayed for ten years from 1949 to 1959 in the Parisian exhibition Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. In addition, she travelled around Africa, Europe and South America, and her art was exhibited worldwide. After World War II, Negri focused on creating more abstract art. When Hayter then returned Atelier 17 back to Paris in 1950, Negri rejoined. At the studio during the 1950s, she worked on colour printing experiments and collaborated with Ian Hugo on relief engraving.

Death and legacy Negri married and later divorced Claude Popelin.

Nina Negri died at 2:00p.m. in the 7th arrondissement of Paris on 29 May 1981, at the age of 79.

Her artwork was featured in the 2002 exhibit Elles de Montparnasse (Women of Montparnasse) at the Montparnasse Museum, which focused on the liberation of women artists between the world wars.