Maison Tellier, the title of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, furnished the name for the series of works painted by Sassu, starting at the end of the 1930s, dedicated to brothels and prostitutes. The name was not chosen by chance: both the artist and the writer describe a reality contemporary to them, finding there - at times - examples of morality in some of the most disreputable characters. In this work we see a pitilessly realistic exhibition of the nude bodies of the women awaiting clients, but the harshness of the scene is tempered by the habitualness of the prostitutes’ gestures and the looks in their eyes.