Tag: nude
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04 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Frank Horvat’s Kristin, Aurelia, Alice and Alexandra, with footnotes # 116
The idea of referring to famous master-pieces probably came to me from a thought that had often crossed my mind — on the subway, for instance — when glancing at some woman who struck me as particularly beautiful, but who didn’t seem conscious of her beauty… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Hermann August Philips’ Portrait of a woman and Lying Woman, with footnotes #208
Hermann August Philips (born May 25, 1844 in Aachen , † October 17, 1927 in Munich ) was a German genre and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf school.From 1863 to 1868, Philips studied painting with Edward von Steinle at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main . Then he was in Antwerp , Düsseldorf and Offenbach…
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04 works, The Art Of The Nude, Fritz Erler’s Calma, with footnotes #207
Fritz Erler (15 December 1868–11 December 1940) was a German painter, graphic designer and scenic designer. Although most talented as an interior designer, he is perhaps best remembered for several propaganda posters he produced during World War I… Please follow link for full post
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02 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Cindy Crawford by Sante D’Orazio and Herbert “Herb” Ritts Jr., with footnotes #204
Cindy Crawford, in full Cynthia Ann Crawford, (born February 20, 1966, DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.), American fashion model and television personality who first gained fame in the 1980s and was among the first “supermodels”… Please follow link for full post
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, by Louis-Jean-Baptiste Igout from the 1800’s, with footnotes #203
Artists throughout history have been drawn to the human form. Whether it is to compel, to shock or seduce, these artworks remain one of the central subjects of art history while intimately charting the socio-political developments of our many cultures — both old and new… Please follow link for full post
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03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Bert Stern with Kate Moss in 2009, with footnotes #202
Bert Stern was one of the leading photographers of the 1950s and 1960s; he redefined fashion photography with his clean and direct style… Please follow link for full post
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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Félix Vallotton’s The Purple Hat, with footnotes #200
In darkly suggestive paintings and graphically spare prints, Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) chronicled fin de siècle Paris like no other artist of his generation. He lampooned the bourgeoisie with acerbic wit and laid bare the urban turmoil of a society in flux… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, William Wallace Gilchrist’s Morning vs night, with footnotes #201
William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr., American, 1879–1926, gained notoriety as a portrait painter who captured introspective moments of stillness in his subjects. His genre and landscape scenes, too, excelled in creating serene and deeply personal images of his surroundings… Please follow link for full post
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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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