Nude, early 20th century
Early 20th century Nude Oil on canvas, 170 x 75 cm - with frame 192 x 97 cm The fascinating canvas depicts a naked female figure in an interior, in an elegant and sensual pose. The artistic quality is combined with the historical and customary interest that the work in question represents, as it is in fact a realization most likely used for the furnishing of an old brothel. The closure of this type of house during the twentieth century led to an ever increasing historical and artistic interest in this theme. Symptomatic of this is the realization of a recent exhibition in Paris at the Musèe d'Orsay, Splendore e miser