Eva Quajotto

Eva Quajotto (Mantua 1903 – Vallerano 1952)

After her family moved from Mantua to Gardone Riviera, she became a student of the painter Pietro Focardi and by 1927, participated in the Turin Quadriennale and the Exhibition at Palazzo della Permanente in Milan.

Her still life was acquired by King Vittorio Emanuele at the 1927 Brera Biennale.

Eva Quajotto moved to Rome

In 1928, she moved to Rome and settled at Via Margutta 33, forging friendships not only with artists from the Villa Strolh-Fern group, but also with writers such as Sibilla Aleramo, Corrado Alvaro, Marinetti, Grazia Deledda, Moravia, and Fausta Cialente.

That same year, she exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

In 1930, she held a solo exhibition at the Artistic Association of Via Margutta, showcasing 45 paintings.

The wedding

In 1936, she married the medieval art historian Geza De Francovich, with whom she had a son, Massimo De Francovich, who later became a well-known theater and film actor.

The estate in Vallerano

During the early war years, she purchased the estate of Vallerano in Viterbo, a subject of many of her paintings, where she stayed intermittently until her death.

She participated in the Biennales of 1934, 1936, and 1948, and in the Quadriennales from 1931 to 1948, exhibiting her works in American galleries: in New York, Birmingham, Baltimore, Syracuse, and Cleveland.

From 1940, she taught drawing at the historic Colomba Antonietti Professional Women’s School in Piazza della Quercia in Rome.

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