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"Affectus 2" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Affectus 2" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov ATT: SHIPS ROLLED IN TUBE ABOUT: Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented Ukrainian painter and graphic known for his d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

When I live my Dream - 21st Ct Contemporary Painting of Boy with Bare Chest
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
David van der Linden 'When I live my dream'' 60 x 70 cm (Framed 70x80 cm, frame is included in price) Oil on wood panel David van der Linden is a...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Elegant dans le miroir - Post Impressionist Nude Oil by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas nude by French post impressionist painter Jean Gabriel Domergue. The work depicts a brunette lady wearing only a gold silk skirt turned away from the a...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Maria, Nude on Blue Background - Original Oil Painting, Handsigned
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962) Maria, Nude on blue Background, c. 1950 Original oil painting on panel Signed bottom left Titled on the back On panel 55 x 46 cm (c. 22 x 18 inch) ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

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Oil

Garden of Reflections, "Journey to Inner Peace" series original oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the "Happiness Series: Journey to Inner Peace," each artwork is a profound exploration of the elusive yet essential quest for joy and tranquility amidst the tumultuous currents of...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Seated Young Man Figurative Art, Nude Man Model Oil On Board Painting By Shana
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine. Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil, Wood

1950's French Signed Oil Portrait of a Nude Lady Soft Lighting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, indistinctly signed lower corner Title: Portrait of a Nude Lady Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 21.75...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Nude Free Woman in a Rocky Mountain Landscape
Located in Pasadena, CA
The painting reveals a nude woman, her aura exuding self-assurance. She stands upright on the rugged terrain of a rocky mountain. Her curly hair freely frames her face. The work is e...
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Late 20th Century Barbizon School Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Today I give you late autumn, "Journey to Inner Peace" series oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Today I give you late autumn. Drink the bitter black wine of the rains. Breathe in the golden pollen of the last leaves. Any autumn is a magical red fox, circling her head with a rou...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage Figurative Nude Study Posed On Bed - Acrylic On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Figurative Nude Study Posed On Bed - Acrylic On Paper Original figurative nude study of a female model posed on a bed. Model is laying on a blue bedspread with contrast purp...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Kitch - Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Sea View, Realism, Swim Floats, Pastel
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey "Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Couple. Paper, charcoal, 99x98 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Couple. Paper, charcoal, 99x98 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of L...
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1990s Realist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Achilles riding the Centaur Chiron by Marco Silombria. Signed by artist.
Located in Firenze, IT
Achilles riding the Centaur Chiron by Marco Silombria. Hand signed by artist. Created by Italian Pop - Art artist Marco Silombria ( Savona, 1936-Albissola, 2017). The young boy, s...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Nude Paintings

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Paper, Wax Crayon, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil

Girl with wine
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
"A woman is like good wine in an elegant vessel, the bouquet of which is exquisite, but can run out of steam if you do not stop it with a kiss in time."
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2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Albert Bertalan (1899-1957) "Nudo in un interno" Grande Olio su Tela
Located in Pistoia, IT
"Nudo in un interno rosso", grande dipinto a olio su tela firmato A. Bertalan. Albert Bertalan (Jászberény-Ungheria, 21 settembre 1899; Parigi, 28 dicembre 1957) è stato un pittore ...
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1920s Fauvist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Diafanie (PORN)
Located in Napoli, IT
Diafanie Mixed media on plastic paper Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years....
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Enamel

French Impressionist Nude Female Figure Pencil Sketch Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Figure by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide condition: o...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

Nude woman oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Nude - Oil on canvas Oil measures 81x65 cm. Frameless. Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors and wood carvers. He b...
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1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Moyo 80x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Moyo,80x100,2020
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2010s Pop Art Nude Paintings

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Tempera, Canvas

"Les deux moitiés" two figures floating through deep green and blue water
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Les deux moitiés" is a contemporary ethereal nude figures in green and blue water. Astone brought professional dancers into her studio and let them improvise as she painted them. Sh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

French Impressionist Nude Female Figure Sat On Arm Chair Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Lady by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide condition: ov...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

Vintage Figurative Portrait of a Nude Female Model -- Under the Sawhorse
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Figurative of a Nude Black Female Model posed under the sawhorse Wonderful example of a figurative of a nude black female model by Katherine Kallick (American, b. 1952). Me...
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1970s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Faun`s rest, 70x80cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Faun`s rest, 2021, 80x70 cm
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Faun`s sweet dream, 90x80cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Faun`s sweet dream, 2021, 90x80 cm
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Man 1, 120x55cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Man 1, 2021, 120x55 cm
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fuerteventura
Located in Oslo, NO
I was fascinated by the beauty of the female body on one of the beaches of the windy volcanic island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Archipelago. The woman took refuge under a rock an...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

Blue woman, 80x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Blue woman, 2022, 80x100 cm
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Redheads Dream - Figurative Nude With Butterflies and Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
A Redheads Dream - Figurative Nude With Butterflies and Flowers Original figurative nude painting of a redhead woman surrounded by butterflies and magenta flowers, by possibly an u...
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1940s American Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Self Portrait - Nude Figurative Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
An early work by Marc Zimmerman - Self Portrait - Nude Figurative Painting By Marc Zimmerman Title: 'Traysi & Marc: Summerland' , oil on canvas This masterpiece is exhibited in th...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Affectus" Painting 47" x 39" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Affectus" Painting 47" x 39" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov ATT: SHIPS ROLLED IN TUBE ABOUT: Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented Ukrainian painter and graphic known for his div...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Mid 20th Century Oil - Out of Place
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On canvas.
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Oil

French Impressionist Nude Female Figure Showering Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Female by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide condition: o...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

French Impressionist Nude Female Figures Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Female Figures by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 8 high by 10 inches wide condition...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

French Impressionist Nude Female Posed Figure Pencil Sketch Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Female by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 8 high by 10 inches wide condition: o...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

French Impressionist Posed Nude Female Figure Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Female Nude Figure by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide condi...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

Nude woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frame 50x58 cm. Catalan painter trained in Olot and the Llotja in Barcelona, ​​where he was a disciple of Lluis Muntané. Through his travels he completes his training. He was in Paris for a year studying Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gaugin. The following year in Holland he studied Franz...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Dancing Love" contemporary ethereal nude figures in green and blue water
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Dancing Love" is a contemporary painting of ethereal nude figures in green and blue water. Astone brought professional dancers into her studio and let them improvise as she painted ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
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1970s Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Female Nude Woman Interior
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Nude Woman, 1949. Gouache on paper, sheet measures 13.5 x 13.5 inches. Image measures 12 x 12 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unframed....
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Cubist Female Nude Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Nude Woman, 1967. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 11.25 x 17.25 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition. Born in Newark, ...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Nude Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Nude Female Model Posed On Arm Chair Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Model by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 8 high by 10 inches wide condition: ov...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

Abstract Female Nude Woman Interior
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Nude Woman, 1945. Gouache on paper, sheet measures 12.5 x 16 inches. Image measures 11.5 x 15 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower left. Unframed. ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Cubist Female Nude Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Nude Woman, 1967. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 12 x 17.5 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition. Born in Newark, New ...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Nude Paintings

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Watercolor

Cubist Female Nude Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Nude Woman, 1967. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 11 x 14 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition. Born in Newark, New Je...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Nude Paintings

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Watercolor

Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Nude Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Female Form
Located in Bristol, GB
FEMALE FORM Size: 75 x 56 cm 29.5 x 22.04 inches (including frame) Oil on Canvas A brilliantly executed mid-century modernist nude study, painted in oil onto canvas. In this compo...
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1950s Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

English School Mid 20th Century Oil - Bather in the Woodland Lake
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On board.
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Oil

French Impressionist Set of Two Nude Female Figures Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Female Figures by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide condition...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

French Impressionist Set of Two Nude Male Figures Showering Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Figures by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8.25 inches wide conditio...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

Cubist Nude Study Pastel Painting by John Begg
Located in Atlanta, GA
This elegant pastel painting on paper was created by John Alfred Begg (1903 - 1974). This piece features a striking cubist nude study in a blue-gray color with contrasting black lines. There is no visible signature.  This artwork comes from the artist's estate. Newly reframed in an elegant blue-silver textured wood frame with black matte and acrylic glass protection. Measurements: With frame: 15 in wide (38 cm) x 19.69 in high (50 cm). Opening view: 7.32 in wide (18.5 cm) x 12 in (30.5 cm). (The last two pictures show the piece of art before framing). Biography: John Alfred Begg was born in New Smyrna Beach...
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1950s Cubist Nude Paintings

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Pastel

Framed 20th Century Oil - Balinese Beauty
Located in Corsham, GB
Female nude study. Unsigned. Well presented in a large textured frame. On canvas laid to board.
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Oil

Studio Male Nude, 19th Century Harold William Boutcher (1867-1903) Newlyn School
Located in Blackwater, GB
Studio Male Nude, 19th Century Harold William Boutcher (1867-1903) Large 19th Century Newlyn School portrait of a seated nude male, oil on canvas by Harold William Boutcher. Excell...
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19th Century Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

After
Located in Toronto, ON
70" x 50" Unframed Original - Oil on Canvas Hand Signed by Robert Hartshorn
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

French Impressionist Nude Female Figure Stretching Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Figure by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide condition: o...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

La Baloneuse Framed Signed Painting
By Emile Wegelin
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Emile Wegelin: Capturing the Essence of Nature.  Painting on Hardboard   Size-Width Size-Height: 32'' x 25'' Signed in Ink Emile Wegelin (1875-1962) devoted his life to paintin...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

Full table
Located in MADRID, ES
“Full table” makes part of AGAPO (meaning “I Love” in Greek) series. “The series expresses the warmth of intimacy.  It is intentionally exotic. Intimacy is spontaneous and irrational...
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2010s Other Art Style Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childhood in the American Far West and, upon marrying the artist William C. McNulty, relocated to Manhattan at the age of 18 in 1914. She took classes at the Art Students League where her teachers included two realist artists of the Ashcan School, George Luks and John Sloan. Her career as an illustrator began in 1919 with cover art for four issues of a fiction monthly called Live Stories. She continued providing cover art and illustrations for popular magazines and books until 1930 when she transitioned from illustrator to professional artist. From that year until her death in 1943, she took part regularly in group and solo exhibitions, receiving a growing amount of critical recognition and praise. In 1939 she told an interviewer that making money as an illustrator was so easy that it "almost spoiled [her] chances of ever being an artist."[1] In reviewing a solo exhibition of her work in 1939, the artist and critic A.Z Kruse wrote: "She paints and composes with a thorough understanding of form and without the slightest hesitancy about anatomical structure. Add to this a magnificent sense of proportion, and impeccable feeling for color and an unmistakable knowledge of what it takes to balance the elements of good pictorial composition and you have a typical Ann Brockman canvas."[2] Early life and training Brockman was born in Northern California in 1895 and spent much of her youth in nearby Oregon, Washington, and Utah.[1][3] She met the artist William C. McNulty in Seattle where he was employed as an editorial cartoonist. They married in March 1914 and promptly moved to Manhattan where he worked as a freelance illustrator.[4][5] At the time of their marriage, Brockman was 18 years old.[6] Over the next few years, her career generally followed that path that her husband had previously taken. His art training had been at the Art Students League beginning in 1908; she began her training there after moving to New York in 1914.[1] After an early career as an editorial cartoonist, he freelanced as a magazine and book illustrator beginning in 1914; she began her career as a magazine and book illustrator in 1919.[7] He embarked on a teaching career in the early 1930s and not long after, she began giving art instruction.[8][9] While they both adhered to the realist tradition in art, their usual subjects were different. His prominently depicted urban cityscapes in the social realist whereas hers generally focused on rural landscapes. He was best known for his etchings and she for her oils and watercolors.[8][10] Brockman returned to the Art Students League in 1926 to take individual instruction for a month at a time from George Luks and John Sloan.[1] Despite their help, one critic said McNulty's "sympathetic encouragement and guidance" was more important to her development as a professional artist.[11] Career in art In the course of her career as illustrator, Brockman would sometimes paint portraits of celebrities before drawing them, as for example in 1923 when she painted the French actress Andrée Lafayette who had traveled to New York to play title role in a film called Trilby.[12] She would also sometimes accept commissions to make portrait paintings and in 1929 painted two Scottish terriers on one such commission.[13] During this time, she also produced landscapes. In 1924 she displayed a New England village street scene painting in the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings in the J. Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art.[14] Available sources show no further exhibitions until in 1930 a critic for the Boston Globe described one of her portraits as "well done" in a review of a Rockport Art Association exhibition held that summer.[15] Between 1931 and her death in 1943, Brockman participated in over thirty group exhibitions and five solos.[note 1] Her paintings appeared in shows of the artists' associations to which she belonged, including the Rockport Art Association, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists, and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[17][19]Between 1932 and 1935, her paintings appeared frequently in New York's Macbeth Gallery.[20][23][25][27] She won an award for a painting she showed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940.[41] In 1942, the Whitney Museum bought one of the paintings she showed in its Biennial of that year.[10] Critical praise for her work steadily increased during the decade that ended with her untimely death in 1943. In 1932, her painting called "The Camera Man" was called "a clever piece of illustration."[21] Three years later, a painting called "Small Town" gave a critic "the impression of freshness, honesty, and skill".[29] In 1938, a critic described her "Folly Cove" as "masterful" and said "Pigeon Hill Picnic" was "sustained by excellence of execution".[48] At that time, Howard Devree of the New York Times saw "evidence of gathering powers" in her work and wrote "she imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Three years later, a Times critic reported Brockman had "set herself a new high" in the watercolors she presented,[52] and another critic said the gallery where she was showing had not "for some time" shown "so outstanding a solo exhibitor as Ann Brockman."[2] Shortly before her death, a critic for Art News maintained that she was "one of America's most talented women painters".[46] After she had died, a critic said Brockman's paintings "displayed real power", adding that she was "highly rated among the nation's professional artists" and was known to give "aid and encouragement, always with a smile," both artists and to her students.[10] in reviewing the memorial exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries held in 1945, reviewers wrote about the strength and vibrancy of her personality, the quality of her painting ("every bit as good, possibly better than people had thought"),[53] called her "one of the best of our twentieth century women painters", and credited "her sense of the vividness of life" as a contributor to "the unusual breadth that is so characteristic of her work.[11] One noted that her work was "widely recognized throughout the country" and could be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[54] Writing in the Times, Devree wrote, "even those who had followed the steady growth of this artist for more than a decade, each successive show being at once an evidence of new achievement and an augury of still better work to come, may well be surprised at the combined impact of the selected paintings in the present showing,"[55] and writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A.Z Kruse said she had made "extraorginary accomplishments", painted with "inordinate distinction" showing a "lyrical majesty," and possessed "a keen esthetic sense which did not deviate from truth."[54] Artistic style (1) Ann Brockman, undated drawing, black chalk on paper, 18 x 22 inches (2) Ann Brockman, High School Picnic, about 1935, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches (3) Ann Brockman, untitled landscape, about 1943, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches (4) Ann Brockman, North Coast, undated watercolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches (5) Ann Brockman, On the Beach, 1942, watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 20 inches (6) Ann Brockman, Lot's Wife, 1942, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 inches (7) Ann Brockman, New York Harbor, 1934, watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches (8) Ann Brockman, Youth, 1942, oil on board, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches Brockman was a figurative painter whose main subjects were rural landscapes and small-town and coastal scenes. She worked in oils and watercolors, becoming better known for the latter late in her career. Most of her paintings were relatively small. Although she made figure pieces infrequently, the nudes and circus and Biblical scenes she painted were seen to be among her best works. In 1938, Howard Devree wrote: "Her gray-day marines and coast scenes are familiar to gallery goers and are favorites with her fellow artists. Her figure pieces have attained a sculptural quality without losing warmth or taking on stiffness. One spirited circus incident of equestriennes about to enter the big tent compares not unfavorably with many of the similar pictures by a long line of painters who have been fascinated by the theme. She imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Similarly, a critic for Art Digest wrote that year: "Fluently and virilely painted, [her] canvases suggest a close affinity between nature and humans. The artist takes her subjects out in the open where they may picnic or bathe with space and air about them. A fast tempo is felt in the compositions of restless horses and nimble entertainers busily alert for the coming performance. Miss Brockman is also interested in portraying frightened groups of people, hurrying to safety or standing half-clad in the lowering storm light."[56] Her palette ranged from vivid colors in bright sunlight to somber ones in the overcast skies of stormy weather. Of the former, one critic spoke of the rich colors and "sun-drenched rocks" of her coastal scenes and another of her "summery landscapes of coves and picnics."[11][50] Of the latter, Howard Devree said she "painted so many moody Maine coast vignettes of lowering skies and uneasy seas that artists have been heard to refer to an effect as 'an Ann Brockman day'".[57] Brockman's handling of Biblical subjects can be seen in the oil called "Lot's Wife", shown above, Image No. 6. Her watercolor called "On the Beach" and her oil portrait called "Youth" may both indicate the "sculptural quality" that Devree said was typical of her figure pieces (Image No. 8, above). An example of Brockman's bright palette in a typical summer theme is the oil painting called "High School Picnic" shown above, Image No. 2. Next to it is a painting, an untitled landscape of about 1943 whose medium, watercolor on paper, shows off the sunny palette she often used (Image No. 3). Among the darkest of her works was an untitled 1942 drawing she made in black chalk (shown above, Image No. 1). In a book called Drawings by American Artists (1947), the artist and art editor Norman Kent noted that this study influenced her painting through its use of "forms" that were "elastic" and suggested "color". He said its "massing of dark and light" created "a definite mood" that was "impressionistic" and had "the strength of a man's work".[58] Brockman's undated watercolor called "North Coast" (shown above, Image No. 4) is an example of the paintings to which Kent referred. Illustrator (9) Ann Brockman, cover, March 12, 1917, Every Week magazine (10) Illustration of an article, "The Taking of a Salient" by Henry Russell...
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1930s American Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Painting Oil On Canvas, Nude In An Oriental Setting by Maurice Briard
Located in Gavere, BE
"Painting Oil On Canvas, Nude In An Oriental Setting Maurice Briard" Beautiful and large oil on canvas, French school signed from the 1920's representing a naked young girl in an Ori...
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1910s French School Nude Paintings

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Gold Leaf

1950s French Oil Sketch of Reclining Nude Lady Atmospheric Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Shop Antique and Vintage Nude Paintings

Today, antique and vintage nude paintings are popular works of art to consider when decorating your home.

The nude as an artist’s subject gained prominence in ancient Greece, wherein male nudes were rendered equivalent to power and victory owing to the Greeks’ celebration of men in athletic events as well as in the worship of the gods who populate Greek mythology. Nude sculptures in Greece positioned men as warriors — strong, moral and fearless. The naked female figures featured in prehistoric art and the art of ancient civilizations, on the other hand, were symbols of fertility and procreation.

Italian painters of the 1400s looked to the magnificent nude sculptures of Greek and Roman art for inspiration. By the end of the century, drawing of undressed models was part of the common practice for these artists. When Christianity had spread through Europe, however, Christians condemned Renaissance nude paintings — most of which are considered famous nude paintings today — because they were erotic, exploring, in some cases, same-sex relationships as well as women’s sexual power. Censorship was the order of the day, except for religious-themed works, such as 1526’s iconic Adam and Eve, an oil painting made by German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of more than 50 works made in his workshop based on the biblical story. Tuscan painter Daniele da Volterra was famously hired to paint fig leaves over the most exposed figures of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. While freedom of expression for artists has expanded significantly since then, prudish censorship persists when it comes to Renaissance nudity.

On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of authentic antique and vintage nude paintings, from works focused on the reliably reclining figures of Impressionist-style art to oil paintings created by contemporary artists who often work to reject the idealized human forms and unrealistic depictions of female nudes that preceded them. Additionally, find a primer on 1stDibs on how to arrange wall art as well as tips on creating salon-style gallery walls for presenting the wonderfully provocative nude paintings you’ve decided to bring into your home.

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