Dolores Puthod

Dolores Puthod joined in 1951 La Scala in Milan as assistant to Nikolai Benois. She also collaborated with Picasso,[1] Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Savinio. In 1956, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, and she continued her activities at La Scala. During the following year she holds her first solo exhibition at Circolo della stampa di Milano and in the Centro Culturale Francese di Milano.

In 1978, to mark the bicentenary of the Teatro alla Scala, she made eight tables, an exhibition that will be presented throughout the world.[2]

The following year, the Vatican through the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue commissioned an oil painting concerning ecumenism and depicting the heads of all the most important churches of the world gathered around Paul VI; in 1986, after Inter-faith Ceremony at Assisi,[3] that painting was defined prophetic.[4]

In 1980, she published, for UNICEF, a series of six lithographs presented by Cardinal Pignedoli and Mother Teresa of Calcutta.[5][6]

In 1983, French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy invited to exhibit at the Opéra de Lille, in the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon, in the Palace of Savoy in Aix-les-Bains, at the House of Culture in Saint-Étienne. The following year, she made a traveling exhibition on the Commedia dell'Arte passing through the Charles Dullin Theatre in Chambéry, the Italian Embassy in Paris, the Château de la Batie d'Urfe, the House of Culture in Bourges, the House of Culture of Sochaux, the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon and the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris.[7]

In 1985, she was invited to exhibit at the Institute of Italian Culture Valparaíso in Chile for the 450th anniversary of the city; in the same year the House of Culture of Bourges realized under his leadership a history of the Commedia dell'arte.

For the 25th anniversary of the Algerian Republic, the Italian Cultural Institute in Algiers invited her to exhibit at the Ibn Khaldoun Theatre. Invited by the Municipality, she exhibited at The Coliseum Theatre and the city of Roubaix made a film inspired by her works.

In 1988, during the Italian Days, Dolores realized the official poster and simultaneously she exposed in various places in the city of Strasbourg. The French government ordered a large table on the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, exposed at the Sforza Castle in Milan before being exposed in several European cities.

A major retrospective of his work was organized in 2005 at Villa Mazzotti of Chiari, under the patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Italy. In 2006 she was invited to present its exposure Searching for God (Italian: Cercando Dio) at St. Eugeniakyrkan in Stockholm under the high patronage of the Vatican.[8]

In 2014 was produced the movie ″29200 Puthod, l'altra verità della realtà″[9] based on the life of Dolores Puthod, awarded at Ariano Film Festival.[10]

In 2015, in conjunction with Expo Milan 2015, the Royal Villa of Monza offered to Dolores Puthod the internal theatre for the exhibition ″L'anima del segno teatrale″ on the Commedia dell'arte.

In the same year, the town of Lomazzo, where the painter currently lives, has dedicated a museum located on the first floor of the town hall.[11]

• Magnolia (1951), oil on masonite, 80 x 92 cm
• Nudo di schiena, Consuelo, oil on canvas, 140 x 80 cm
• Infermo, oil on board, 80 x 120 cm
• Incontro ideal nei 200 anni alla Scala (1977), oil on canvas, 4x3 m
• The Spinner (1976), oil on canvas, 130 x 80 cm
• Prima della processione (1996), oil on canvas, 35.3 x 30.3 cm
• Abbandono (1996), oil on canvas, 70 × 70 cm
• Natura morta (1997), oil on canvas, 60 × 70 cm
• The disciples of God (1979), oil on canvas, 4 × 3 m

She has received several awards including the Bolshoi Theatre Award in Moscow, the Paul Harris Fellows by Rotary International,[12] the Lorenzo il Magnifico Award.

• Nikolaï Benois, Antonio Ghiringhelli. I grandi dipinti di Dolores Puthod per il Bicentenario del Teatro Alla Scala, 1978, Erser editions.
• Per il sorriso di un Bimbo UNICEF six lithography presented by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli etc. 1980
• Francesco Gioia, inter-religious dialogue in the official teaching of the Catholic Church (ISBN 978-2-85274-300-7) (Coverage: Followers of God, by Dolores Puthod)
• (it) Catalogo Generale delle Opere di Dolores Puthod, vol. 1, Giorgio Mondadori, 1994, 478 p. (ISBN 9788837413798).
• (it) Catalogo Generale delle Opere di Dolorès Puthod, vol. 2, Giorgio Mondadori, 2000, 240 p. (ISBN 9788837416485)
• (it) Paolo Volponi, Catalogo generale delle opere di Dolores Puthod : dipinti e disegni dal 1948 al 1994, Milano, G. Mondadori, 1994
• (it) Puthod Dolores, Cinque serigrafie di Dolores Puthod - Lombardia Cultural Assets, Art Museum Gallarate, 1975 ([www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/stampe/schede/A0020-00503/ read online])

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dolores Puthod.

• Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, The painting Followers of God
• Cultural Assets of Lombardy Region: Dolores Puthod
• Movie 29200 PUTHOD The other truth of the realty, L'altra verità della realtà on YouTube