Fillide Levasti, Daily Life, 1952, restored in 2018
The Dollhouse?
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Details from Levasti's Daily Life. Whether in the studio or displayed for public viewing, many female art lovers express wonder at seeing Fillide Levasti's painting, by saying, "Oh, it looks like a dollhouse I had as a child!" Here is art historian Lucia Mannini’s take on the painting. "Levasti's urban views are populated by figures who wander amidst the cube-like geometry of her buildings and archaic landscapes. Her curious gaze explored teeming everyday activities, giving life to what has become a zestful and enchanting repertoire of a lost Florence, once home to carnival rides and washerwomen, cartwrights and lamplighters, housewives hanging laundry, nursemaids, travelling photographers and women sewing on their terraces. Her world straddles reality and fairytale, and its limpid and well-measured color makes her oeuvre an extraordinary episode within the painterly route trodden by most artists who gravitated toward the Florence art scene." AWA restored Fillide Levasti’s Daily Life in 2018, for the exhibition ‘Women Artists. Florence 1900-1950’. It is now in storage at the Uffizi Galleries’.