Artist

Carol Rama

Portrait of Carol Rama
Portrait of Carol Rama

Italian, 1918–2015

Carol Rama was an Italian Transavantgarde artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Carol Rama was born in Turin.

Olga Carolina "Carol" Rama (17 April 1918 – 25 September 2015) was an Italian self-taught artist. Her painting encompassed an erotic, and sexual identity with specific references to female sensuality. She began to paint around the mid-thirties and exhibiting her work ten years later.

Her work was relatively little known until curator Lea Vergine included several pieces in a 1980 exhibition, prompting Rama to revisit her earlier watercolour style.

Works by Carol Rama

Collections represented

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