Category: Art of the Nude
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01 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, William Mortensen’s Youth, with footnotes #192
Sold for US$130 in Jan 2018 William Mortensen (27 January 1897 – 12 August 1965) was an American art photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s-1940s in the pictorialist style. He was born William Herbert Mortensen on January 27, 1897 in Park City, Utah, the son of Danish immigrants. During World War I, Mortensen served…
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04 Photographs, Albert Watson’s Lisa Taylor, Nina, Monica Gripman and Heloise, 1977, With Footnotes #82
Albert Watson OBE (born 1942) is a Scottish fashion, celebrity and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Peter Max’s Reclining Nude, with footnotes # 190
Sold for $1,300 USD in January 2022 Peter Max is a German artist known for his unique brand of rainbow-hued prints and paintings, which he has created since the early 1960s. Employing painterly strokes, his illustrations incorporate a wide spectrum of colors and patterns as seen in his Umbrella Man series. “I’m just wowed by the…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Miles Aldridge’s Better Than Life and Thought after Filthy Thought, with footnotes # 189
Miles Aldridge’s uncanny, saturated portraits riff on cinematic glamour and erotic tropes. Throughout his work, Aldridge draws on a range of influences, from filmmakers such as David Lynch and Federico Fellini to photographer Richard Avedon and movements including Pop art and psychedelia… Please follow link for full post
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Jack Welpott’s Janet in Her Room, with footnotes # 187
A nude woman wears a mask as she looks out the window. Next to her is a print of Gustav Klimt’s “Judith and the Head of Holofernes”. Jack Welpott (1923–2007) was an American photographer born in Kansas City, grew up in southern Indiana. and was educated at primary and secondary schools in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.…
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04 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Marcel Gromaire’s Femme nue, with footnotes # 186
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892–11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, however, one can say that Gromaire created an independent oeuvre far away from groups and movements… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Warren Brandt’s Relaxing Nude, with footnotes # 185
Sold for $687.50 in January 2020 “Working in the tradition of Henri Matisse, Brandt has adopted beauty and realism as his concerns. Brandt has managed to bridge the gap between the masters of the Western tradition, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Bonnard, Max Beckmann and Willem de Kooning.” Warren Brandt (1918-2002) studied with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Oscar VanYoung’s Hot Summer Day, with footnotes # 183
Sold for $1,200.00 in January 2020Oscar Van Young was born in Vienna on 15 April 1906. For business reasons his father found himself in Russia at the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, and was followed there by his family. Oscar spent some of his teenage years in Odessa, Russia during the civil war that…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Hugo Ballin’s Two women in a meadow, with footnotes # 182
Estimate at $700 – $900. Sold for $450.00 on October 2020 Hugo Ballin NA (March 7, 1879 – November 27, 1956) was an American artist, muralist, author and film director. Ballin was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design.Ballin was born in New York City and studied at…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Markus Feiler’s CLOSER | DISTANCE, with footnotes #181
“With their special appeal, the black and white photos reinforce the magical game of closeness and distance, which at the same time allow room for individual interpretations of the moment… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Miroslava Zaharieva’s Body III, with footnotes # 179
Offered for sale at C$1,993 in May 2023Miroslava Zaharieva is an academic and self-expression artist. She works in various styles: still life, landscape, portrait, figural and non-figural compositions using watercolours, oil, tempera and acrylic colours. Traditional techniques of painting and experimentation by mixing different techniques together. Collage works with various materials: paper, textile, leather and synthetics.…
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04 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, CHARLES CAMOIN’S FEMME NUE, with footnotes # 178
Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau’s class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, Marià Fortuny’s Odalisque, with footnotes # 54
An odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. An odalık was not a concubine of the harem, but a maid, although it was possible that she could become one. An odalık was ranked at the bottom of the…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Julio Romero de Torres’ La esclava/ The slave, with footnotes # 177
The sitter for the present work was the actress Elena Pardo. A regular performer at the Romea theater in Madrid, Elena was Romero de Torre’s preferred model during the 1920s. Elena’s figure embodied to perfection the archetype that Coco Chanel promoted internationally – a modern woman with a greased bob hairstyle ‘comme les garcons’. The…
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08 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Vera Rockline’s Nudes asleep, with footnotes # 176
Véra Rockline (1896–4 April 1934) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. Rockline started her career in Moscow, studying in the studio of Ilya Mashkov, who considered her one of his most brilliant students… Please follow link for full post
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08 Works, Bathers at Summer break by Works by Fernando Amorsolo, William Etty, Arthur Brusenbauch, Louis-Joseph Courtat, Eser Afacan, Gaetano de Martini and Émilie Möri with footnotes
Émilie Möri is a Franco-Swiss photographer, born in 1978. She grew up in a family of printers. His experience in the field of screen printing reveals his passion for colors, image composition, artistic expression. A graduate of Les Gobelins Paris, Émilie is an artistic director . Alongside her creations for advertising agencies, publishing houses, major brands…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, August Macke’s Badende Frauen/ Bathing Women, with footnotes # 175
August Macke, (born January 3, 1887, Meschede, Germany—died September 26, 1914, Perthes-les-Hurlus, France), German painter who was a leader of Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”), an influential group of Expressionist artists. Macke studied at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1904 to 1906. During his first trip to Paris in 1907 he was profoundly influenced by…
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Paul Sieffert’s A MOMENT OF REPOSE and RECLINING NUDE, with footnotes # 172
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. Paul Sieffert was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme , Gabriel Guay and Albert Maignan . He exhibited at the Salon since 1894, and at the Society…
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05 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Hilo Chen’s sunbathing on beaches or lounging in the Bath, with footnotes # 174
A first-generation photorealist, Hilo Chen is best known for his Pop art-reminiscent paintings of female figures sunbathing on beaches or lounging by pools. His highly sexualized figures often appear topless or nude and in close-up views, with the texture of their skin rendered in meticulous detail. Despite his focus on the female body, Chen says…
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, BRUCE WEBER’s LISA MARIE, PALM BEACH, with footnotes # 173
Bruce Weber is an internationally renowned American fashion photographer best known for his racy, erotically charged imagery. Weber has shot the ad campaigns of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, and Gianni Versace, as well as his work for Vogue… Please follow link for full post
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