First International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts, Turin (Translation)
Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna, Torino (Primary Title)

Leonardo Bistolfi, Italian, 1859 - 1933 (Artist)

1902
Italian
Lithograph
Sheet: 41 × 57 3/8 in. (104.14 × 145.73 cm)
Framed: 42 3/8 × 53 3/8 in. (107.63 × 135.57 cm)
2021.155
Not on view
Signed at lower left and right: “L Bistolfi/up di Bernard (?),” and “Lit. Doyen/ di L. Simondetti/Torino”
John and Maria Shugars Fund
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