Erma Bossi

Little is known about the life of Erma Bossi (1875–1952), whose actual name was Erminia Bosich. The little information that exists about her youth and her life in Paris is unreliable or unverifiable. The majority of the works she created after her permanent return to Italy in 1920 have disappeared or could no longer be found, in spite of my twenty-year search.¹ Nonetheless, a few solo exhibitions and her participation in annual exhibitions in Milan, Venice, and Trieste can be documented. Bossi also exhibited her work in Florence a few times in the mid-1940s. Her last solo exhibition took