Edith Schloss was born in 1919 in Offenbach, Germany. As a teenager she spent time in Florence studying Renaissance Art. In 1938, on Kristallnacht, Schloss and her family were rounded up, but a friend in the police helped them escape to England. From there, during W.W. II, Schloss immigrated to New York City, where she fell in with like-minded artists (the de Koonings, Edwin Denby, Helen deMott, Joseph Cornell), and married the photographer Rudy Burckhardt. When the marriage ended in 1962, Schloss moved to Rome. She stayed there. “Abstract? Figurative? Semiabstract?,” Schloss once wrote. “All art is a fusion of the real outside, and that which is inside us.” Her art is colorful, playful, possessing the splash of Matisse, the directness of Morandi, the delicacy of Stettheimer. She died in 2011. At Alexandre Gallery, Schloss works from the 1960s and 70s—never before exhibited—are on view. —Laura Jacobs