Dolores Puthod

Dolores Puthod
Dolores Puthod
Born	1934 Milan
Occupation	Painter

Dolores Puthod, born in 1934 in Milan from Italian-French parents, is an Italian painter.

Dolores Puthod joined in 1951 La Scala in Milan as assistant to Nikolai Benois. She also collaborated with Picasso,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.

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, that painting was defined prophetic.

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

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.

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