Erma BARRERA-BOSSI known as Erma BOSSI (1875/85-1952). Canal-side factory. Oil on card signed lower left, dedicated on the back to Massue (Nicholas Massue, tenor at La Scala in Milan), countersigned and dated 1935 (some cardboard missing). Height 26 cm - Width 34 cm Note: born as Erminia Bosich near Trieste, in present-day Croatia, and died near Milan, Erma Bossi is one of the major female figures of German Expressionism, little known to the general public. Indeed, Alexej von Jawlensky cites her as the founder of the New Association of Munich Artists in 1909, alongside Kandinsky and Werefkin, a group that gave birth to Der Blaue Reiter (the Blue Rider) in 1911. She also enjoyed a close friendship with Gabriele Münter and Vassily Kandisnky, as evidenced by the 1910 painting by Gabriele Munter herself, entitled "Kandinsky and Erma Bossi" at a tavern. In the 1910s, she moved to Paris to study the Parisian avant-gardes, which influenced her work, before settling in Italy, as illustrated by our painting.