Tag: Skin
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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 amorous game, Victor Guerrier’s Au café, with Footnotes, #83
Sold for 7 500EUR in Octobre 2017 Victor Guerrier, (French, 1893-1968) was born and trained in Lyon living much of his life at Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or. He began his career as an illustrator but made his name painting Belle Epoque subjects and Parisian life between the wars. Clearly inspired by the work of Impressionist masters…
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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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01 Painting, The amorous game, Jacob Toorenvliet’s seated couple drinking wine, With Footnotes #82
Sold for 8,750 GBP in September 2019 Here, two figures are seated before a stone wall around a wooden table. Behind the male figure at left, who with his left hand reaches for the chin of the female beside him and raises a glass in his right, is an evening vista. Great detail has been used…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Friedrich Sturm’s Paolo and Francesca, With Footnotes #83
Sold for 6,300 EUR in November 2022 In the late eighteenth century, a romantic admiration for Dante spread throughout Europe and a whole generation of artists was inspired by his writings. Sturm, like artists such as Ingres before him, chose to illustrate the theme of the famous Canto V of Dante’s Inferno, which relates the last…
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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 Painting, The amorous game, Jacob Toorenvliet’s Inequal love, With Footnotes #83
Sold for 5,040 EUR in November 2022 The painting shows the theme of the ill-matched couple, a popular theme in the arts of the period, though generally the one making the proposition is a man to a courtesan, not a woman to a man. The theme generally shows the man offering the woman a ring in…
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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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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Odd Nerdrum’s Daddy’s Girl, With Footnotes #80
In this 2014 oil painting Nerdrum returns to the beautiful nude couple of Summer Nights (see below). But now they are aged and decrepit, the woman lay dying across the lap of her grieving partner. Yet at their feet the infant still sleeps… 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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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Pieter Breughel the Younger’s Marriage Procession, With Footnotes #81
Flemish wedding processions, as depicted here, publically announced the union of two families before the private, religious ceremony was held at a church. The bride wears her hair down and uncovered except for the wedding headpiece. The groom, wearing a wedding crown atop his bright red cap, is followed by two men, probably the fathers…
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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…