Tag: 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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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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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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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, 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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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Fruta Prohibida, with footnotes #212
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, his photography is self-taught. His career spanned from the…
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05 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Hedy Lamarr in kstase and White Cargo, with footnotes # 23
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), Hedy Lamarr fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris… Please follow link for full post
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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Iranian Artist Pegah Samaie, with footnotes # 126
“The title gives a great starting insight into what is going on here, but I soon found that it only scratched the surface…” Please follow link for full post
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Herb Ritts’ Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana and Naomi, with footnotes # 245
Sold for 150,000 USD in April 2018 Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood is a black and white photograph taken in 1989 by photographer and director Herb Ritts (American, 1952–2002). The subject of the photograph is a group of five women coyly entwined together in an embrace. Each of the five women – Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford,…
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05 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude by Tomio Seike, with footnotes #205
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Sante D´Orazio’s Pamela Anderson, with footnotes #206
Sante D’Orazio captures Pamela Anderson’s status as the ultimate American Icon: modern-day goddess, cult figure, activist, author, and crush of an entire generation… Please follow link for full post
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