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[Nude, Villa Scalero, Turin]

1956–62
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Nude, Villa Scalero, Turin]
  • Artist: Carlo Mollino (Italian, 1905–1973)
  • Date: 1956–62
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 4 1/8 × 5 13/16 in. (10.4 × 14.7 cm)
    Framed: 14 × 16 in. (35.6 × 40.6 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs