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The US-UK Fulbright Commission has selected a painting by Carole Robb for their new permanent Art collection in London, titled ‘Villa d’Este’, 60″x60″ – 152x152cms – oil on canvas.
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The US-UK Fulbright Commission is a cultural exchange program founded by Senator Fulbright in 1946. It awards prestigious scholarships to the USA for artists & academics from the UK. Robb is a Fulbright alumnus.
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The painting chosen by Fulbright was completed in Rome in 2015. Robb had visited the neo-classical Villa d’Este & saw a woman in a black dress lying on a bench next to a fountain, then the woman showed up again, lying on another bench in the same dramatic pose.
Next day Robb took a model in a black dress & began a series of paintings of her lying on benches
in neo-classsical locations throughout Rome.
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The New York art critic Robert Sievert said “…they’re like the films of Antonioni, specially L’Avventura where Monica Vitti searches the Italian coastline looking for her missing friend”.
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