Maria Teresa Vigano b. 1884

Also known as Maria Teresa Ferrari, Maria Vigano, M. T. Vigano
  • Artist (Painter)
Maria Teresa Vigano was a painter. She was born in Milan, Italy in 1884. With her husband she came to Melbourne in 1928. In Australia they established Mario's Restaurant. In 1936 she held her first solo exhibition 'Thirty Years of Painting in Australia' in Rome. Vigano also held a solo exhibition at the Victorian Artists' Society rooms, Albert Street, East Melbourne, in 1965.
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Citations

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Hutchinson, 2nd edition, Hawthorn, Vic.

  • Maguire, Roslyn, Information from.

  • Benwell, W.S. (1990), 'Ferrari, Maria Teresa (1884 – 1969)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [12], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, [326-327].

  • O’Brien, Ilma Martinuzzi; & Mecca, Laura (c.1986), 'Australia’s Italians, 1788-1988’, Carlton, Vic. : Italian Historical Society and the State Library of Victoria.

  • Sagazio, Celestina (Dr), Information from.

  • 'Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Prizes Database’, online : http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/lib/prizes_database.

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  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, ,Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)