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[Nude, Villa Scalero, Turin]

Carlo Mollino Italian

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Carlo Mollino was an eccentric Italian furniture designer and architect who made more than a thousand nude studies of young women at his luxe homes in Turin. The photographs teeter on the edge of salaciousness and were virtually unknown until after Mollino’s death. Nonetheless, they fit the artist’s penchant for employing curving lines in his furniture, architecture, and race cars. The seeming informality of these pictures belies a careful aesthetic strategy—a kind of late-in-life lyrical autoeroticism.

[Nude, Villa Scalero, Turin], Carlo Mollino (Italian, 1905–1973), Gelatin silver print

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