Category: Art of the Nude
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Florence Henri’s Line Viala, #245
Sold for USD 5,040 in Apr 2022 Line Viala, real name Hélène Stiévenard , is a French singer and actress born on 30 August 1910 in Choisy-le-Roi( Seine ) and died on 26 March 1998 in Saint-Cloud ( Hauts-de-Seine ). Line Viala was a famous French actress and accordionist in the guinguette style of the 1930s. She…
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03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Edmund Teske’s Nudes, with footnotes # 103
Edmund Teske credited a grammar school teacher with inspiring his interest in photography. He received his first box camera around 1920. During his adolescence he studied drawing, painting, and musice… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Wlastimil Hofman’s Female Nude on the Ladder, #243
Sold for for 52,550.86 US$ in March 2022 The naked woman shown on the ladder in a cheeky gesture places a small, defenseless kitten under the dog’s nose. Which one is Robber and which one is Maciuś? It’s hard to say today. The ladder itself in the art of symbolism carried many hidden meanings in its structure.…
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Julian Wasser’s Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz, #242
After exchanging her blouse and skirt for a smock, Babitz sat at the chessboard in the center of the room. She waited for Duchamp to appear, Wasser to set up… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, by Mario Eduardo Testino Silva’s Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, with footnotes, #241
Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova (born 28 February 1982), nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. In 2012, she came in third on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8.6 million in one year. Vodianova is currently ranked by models.com as one of the New Supers in the fashion industry.…
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06 Works, The Art Of The Nude, A Collection of Paul Sieffert’s Une femme nue allongée, with footnotes # 242
Paul Sieffert, born in Paris on November 11, 1874 and died in 1957, was a French painter of nudes and portraits, and also an illustrator. He belonged to the French School… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Jean Veber’s Dynamis, with footnotes #237
Dynamis is one of Veber’s most striking works: Industry, embodied by a demonic woman, takes visible pleasure in crushing the workers who serve her… Jean Veber (13 February 1864 – 28 November 1928) was a French caricaturist and painter. Jean Veber was born in Paris in 1864. Trained as a painter, he became an illustrator when his…
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05 works, The Art Of The Nude, Abraham Soloman Baylinson’s Seated Nude and Reclining Woman, #239
Abraham Solomon Baylinson (6 January 1882 – May 1950) was a Russian-American painter who was active in the early modernist movement. He was secretary for the Society of Independent Artists from 1918 to 1934, and showed his work at the Society’s shows from his joining in 1917 until 1942… Please follow link for full post
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05 works, The Art Of The Nude, Diane Arbus’ In a Nudist Camp, with footnotes #232
Transgressing traditional boundaries, Diane Arbus is known for her highly desirable, groundbreaking portraiture taken primarily in the American Northeast during the late 1950s and 1960s… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Paul-Émile Bécat’s Reclining nude with an attendant, with footnotes #231
Sold for US$15,075 in July 2020 Paul-Émile Bécat (2 February 1885 – 1 January 1960 in Paris) was a French painter, printmaker and engraver, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Returning from…
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Robert Brackman’s Muse, with footnotes #229
Robert Brackman (September 25, 1898 – July 16, 1980) was an American artist and teacher of Ukrainian origin, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes. Born in Odes’ka Oblast, Ukraine, he emigrated from the Russian Empire in 1908… Please follow link for full post
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07 works, The Art Of The Nude, Julius Leblanc Stewart’s Reclining nudes, with footnotes #227
Julius LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — January 5, 1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed “the Parisian from Philadelphia”… Please follow link for full post
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Hananiah Harari’s Nude Descending a Stairs after Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones’s The Golden Stairs, with footnotes #230
Statement by the Artist: “Serendipity led me to the Pre-Raphaelite Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones whose painting The Golden Stairs suggested a scaffold for my own… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson’s Melusina, with footnotes #226
Melusina was a mythical figure from European folklore, a water nymph who is often portrayed with the upper body of a beautiful woman but the lower that of a fish, or serpent. The most complete retelling of what was probably a more ancient legend, dates from the end of the 14th century and recounts how Melusina…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, David Nicholson’s Mousetrap, with footnotes #221
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Ralph Waldo Emerson David Nicholson (Canadian, born 1970). Although the style and colour palette of the paintings and…
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Edward Henry Weston’s Nudes, with footnotes #216
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 — January 1, 1958) was an American photographer. He has been called “one of the most innovative and influential American photographers” and “one of the masters of 20th century photography.”… Please follow link for full post
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, William Claxton’s Peggy Moffitt in Rudolf “Rudi” Gernreich’s” TOPLESS SWIMSUIT, with footnotes #219
Gernreich collaborated with Moffitt and her husband, photographer William Claxton. The three became “a dynamic and inseparable trio… Please follow link for full post
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06 works, The Art Of The Nude, The Art of War, Felix Labisse’s Alma is wounded, with footnotes #220 2
The battlefield lay silent, the echoes of clashing steel and cries of warriors now replaced by an eerie stillness. Alma, once a fierce figure clad in gleaming armor, staggered amidst the remnants of the clash… Please follow link for full post
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06 works, The Art Of The Nude, MAN RAY’s Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes #217
Kiki, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist’s model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Maurice Brianchon’d c. NU AUX BAS ROUGES, with footnotes #218
Estimated for 30,000 – 50,000 USD in December 2018 Maurice Brianchon, (1899-1979) French, is known as one of the Painters of Poetic Reality. Brianchon attended É’cole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and moved to Spain shortly after to study the paintings of Spanish Masters. His early work is characterized by dynamic images of the theater, street scenes, and horse races…
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