Marie Lucie Nessi (1910 – 1992) was a French painter trained in interwar Paris. After completing her secondary education, she entered a drawing school in 1926, followed by two years of academic study based on plaster casts of antique sculpture.
From 1928, she continued her training in the ateliers of Louis-François Biloul and André Lhote, enrolling at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Her studies with André Lhote, whose teaching emphasized compositional structure, controlled color relationships, and analytical construction, were decisive in shaping her pictorial approach.
Active within the artistic milieu of Montparnasse, Nessi befriended painters such as Jean Hélion, Moïse Kisling, and Léonard Foujita. Throughout the 1930s she travelled widely across Europe, producing numerous watercolours. After a period during which she supported her family through ceramic production, she returned fully to painting from the late 1950s onward. She exhibited regularly in France and abroad and was represented internationally from the early 1970s. Her career ended in the late 1980s following serious health problems.