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Artist: Tito Lessi
Italian Art nouveau Nude Boudoir painting woman warming herself by a stove Paris
By Tito Lessi
Located in Norwich, GB
A very pure and tender rendition of a female nude. Elegant in its simplicity, the artist's model, is warming herself by a large stove!
It is a work by Tito Lessi dating from circa 1890. Lessi was born in Florence, Italy and studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts, under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri...
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Materials
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