Tag: Figurative
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01 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Attributed to Charles Chaplin’s Daydreaming, with footnotes #199
Sold for £3,187.50 in May 2020 Charles Joshua Chaplin (8 June 1825 – 30 January 1891) was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He was an accomplished artist mastering different techniques such as pastels, lithography, watercolor, chalk, oil painting and etching. He was best known for his elegant portraits of young women.Charles…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Michel Comte’s Untitled, 1991, with footnotes #198
Sold for USD 200,000 in March 2020 Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the…
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13 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, TOM WESSELMANN’s Reclining Stockinged Nudes, with footnotes #197
Unique works from the Stockinged Nude series: 26 hand-painted works, each with different colour combinations of hair, skin and stockings… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Kimberly Dow’s Bewitched and Beguiled, with footnotes #196
Kimberly Dow is an American contemporary artist that started to draw in childhood. What started as a simple hobby, eventually turned into a real passion… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Raoul Dufy’s Nu à l’orchestre/ Nude in the orchestra, with footnotes #195
Sold for Sold for £37,562.50 in October 2020 Raoul Dufy (1877 – 1953) was french painter and the brother of Jean Dufy. But he was not only a painter, but a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, furniture designer and planner of public spaces. Dufy grew up in a large family from Le Havre in Normandy, France. At…
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08 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude by Karl Hofer, with footnotes #194
Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer (11 October 1878, Karlsruhe — 3 April 1955, Berlin) was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts… Please follow link for full post
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04 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Durando Togo Richard’s Femme Fatale, with footnotes #193
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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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03 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Biblis and Spring Breeze, with footnotes # 191
Bouguereau writes: “Among my paintings, “Biblis” is one that I love the most, one that I most enjoyed painting; this even though it was inspired by an incident in the atelier. One of my female models had just asked to rest from a tiring pose; when the young woman was in the process of standing…
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03 Works, Robert McGinnis’ interpretations of Richard Scott Prather’s novels Adrienne, Renee and Rose Garland, with Footnotes #83
Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (his first film poster assignment) Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helm films… Please follow link for full post
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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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