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Nude Paintings For Sale
Something New / Modern Icon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Young woman's face, titled 'Something New / Modern Icon', oil and gold leaf on paper from artist Elena Zolotnitsky. A sublime work in blue, pink, warm rou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Nude Study in Sausalito Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and compelling nude study with Sausalito in the background by Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 20th Century), circa 1980. Artist's name on verso. Unf...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pensativa
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Artemio sepulveda painting "Pensativa".
Mixed media on canvas.
Signed by the artist.
35.75 x 44 in. image.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Invito al gioco" by Enzio Wenk, 1999 - Acrylic and Sand on Plywood, Nude Figure
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Invitation to the game"
Acrylic and sand on plywood.
Category
1990s Nude Paintings
Materials
Sandstone
Selfportrait in the Beginning of History - 21st Century, Male, Blue, Brown
Located in Berlin, DE
Self-portrait at the Beginning of History, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
88 31/32 H x 34 29/64 in.
226 H x 87.5 W cm
Rădvan's multifaceted self-portraits are also a reference to Narcissus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Self-portrait as a Cautious Hero - 21st Century, Red, Eyes, Human, Figurative
Located in Berlin, DE
Self-portrait as a Cautious Hero, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
226 H x 87.5 W cm
88 31/32 H x 34 29/64 inch
Rădvan's multifaceted self-portraits are also a reference to Narcissus, a mirro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Controledchaos8
Located in New Orleans, LA
paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paint
The Soul of the Opossum
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Birch, Egg Tempera
H.G with Standing Nude
By Moses Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Moses Soyer, American (1899 - 1974)
Title: H.G with Standing Nude
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 x 20 inches
Frame: 32 x 28 inches
ACA Galleries...
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Finding Herself
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diana Tremaine’s large-scale, dynamic, figurative oil paintings reflect a search for truth and meaning in the human experience. She develops brushstrokes and marks by adding and then...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Erotic Series II, Nude Drawing, Female, Ink on Magazine paper "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Erotic Series II - 9 x 7 inches (unframed size)
Ink on Magazine Paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Figures, female torsos in frontal nudity, a crouching ...
Category
2010s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Magazine Paper
Vintage Modern Painting - Pose of Flames
Located in Houston, TX
Striking abstract acrylic painting of a nude male figure in a reclining pose and surrounded by vivid flames by Beugnet, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white...
Category
1940s Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Red Rest
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Original acrylic mixed media painting on laid cream paper from 2011 in excellent condition. Sleeping female figure in grey and rust with stripes.
Signed and dated on the front lowe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Crayon, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment
Apres le Bain
By Rafaello Busoni
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rafaello Busoni, American (1900 - 1962)
Title: Apres le Bain
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88...
Category
1950s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled Nude
By Rowann Villency
Located in New York, NY
Rowann Villency, Untitled Nude, Abstract Figurative Nude, Mixed Media, 42.75 x 28.75, 1989
Colors: White, Blue, Orange, Purple, Turquoise, Gold
Framed 5...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Studio Model Posing Whilst Reading, Nude Oil Painting
By J.B. Holmes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Life Model Posing Whilst Reading,
By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 12x10 inches
Lovely elegant portrayal of model who is posi...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Unknown Cubist Nude Oil Painting 1962
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original cubist pointillist nude signed illegibly and dates 1962.
The artist uses sporadic texture and vibrant color to create a captivating scene.
Category
1960s Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Gypsy, Nude Oil Painting by Maurycy Trebacz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Maurycy Trebacz, Polish (1861-1941)
Title: Gypsy
Year: 1924
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 39 x 27 in. (99.06 x 68.58 cm)
Category
1920s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Multicolor Abstracted Reclining Nude Figure Drawing
By Stewart Goldman
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and dynamic abstracted nude figure drawing, depicted with expressive line and color by Stewart Goldman (American, b. 1936). Signed "S. Goldman" and dated "82" lower right. "Steward Goldman," dated "1982" and titled "Figure Drawing #2" on verso. Presented in a metal frame. Image size, 29.5"H x 22"W.
Exhibited:Chamber Paintings and Other New Work - Toni Birckhead Gallery - Cincinnati, Ohio
EDUCATION
Philadelphia College of Art - 1955-58, 1960-62, BFA in Painting
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Art Academy of Cincinnati –September 1968-August 2001 –Retired
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Cincinnati Art Museum Board of Trustees Member– 2013-2016
Advisory Committee- Weston Art Gallery
Previous Service
Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Board of Trustees Member
Gamble-Nippert YMCA - Committee of Management Member
GRANTS and AWARDS
Ohio Arts Council Grant-Exhibition support-“Working Spaces” Munich, Germany -2001
Ohio Arts Council Grant-Exhibition support-“Tales of Slavery and Deliverance”, Munich, Germany-1999
Kulturreferat, Munich, Germany Grant-Residency, Villa Waldberta-Feldafing, Germany-1997
Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant-To create installation-“The Cherubs of Theresienstadt”-1994
Ohio Arts Council Grant-To curate exhibition and travel “Cincinnati Artists Works on Paper” Kharkiv Art Museum, 1993
Cincinnati Bell Mural Commission-1990
Cincinnati Summerfair Fellowship-1988
Cincinnati Post-Corbett Award, Outstanding Individual Artist-1988
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2013 Curator- “Seeing Opera” Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio
2013 Book publication, My Mother’s Eyes, Italian translated edition
2011 Curator - exhibition for Constella Festival of Music and Fine Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio
2010 Created print at invitation for Cincinnati Art Museum portfolio commemorating Jim Dine
2007 Book Publication, My Mother’s Eyes, German Translated edition
2005 Commencement Address, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
Colloquia, College of Applied Science, Cincinnati, Ohio
Portfolio Presentation, 92 Street Y, New York, NY
2004 Book Publication, My Mother’s Eyes. Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Mythic Macrocosm - Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, ILL
2015 Stewart Goldman: Nuances - Philip M. Meyers, Jr., Memorial Gallery, University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, Ohio
2009 Stewart Goldman Presence through Absence - Cincinnati Art Museum – Cincinnati, Ohio
2008 Then and Now- Paintings and Tape drawings – Springfield Museum of Art-
2006 Old Square/New Square: Paintings and Wall Drawings-Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts
2005 Paintings-Cincinnati Art Galleries...
Category
1980s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, California Fauve
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
An elegant figural interior showing a young woman seated on a bed beside a table bearing a vase...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Lotus, mixed media painting on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing sets and costumes for rock bands. This connection with the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Torso
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting of an ancient marble sculpture of a man's torso.
John Woodrow Kelley (Tennessee, 1953) is a figurative artist who focuses on c...
Category
2010s Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magdalena Bay (St. Mary Magdalene)
By John Cobb
Located in Dallas, TX
John Cobb knew he wanted to be an artist since he was 9. In 1976, he entered Rhode Island School of Design where his realist tendencies were ostracized. Using the money intended for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Alkyd, Panel
Narcissus with Venus Effect
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figura Seduta
Located in Miami, FL
Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951.
He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Bronze
Untitled 012 (Snow)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original contemporary painting by American artist Bruce Adams.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"St. Icaremus in the Lumber Yard, " Acrylic on Canvas by Randall Berndt
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"St. Icaremus in the Lumber Yard" is an original acrylic painting on canvas by Randall Berndt. This painting depicts a male figure with wings and a bird head in a lumber yard. There are three pillars of carved heads staring at him.
Artwork Size: 44" x 52 1/4"
Artist Bio:
Randall Berndt grew up on a farm near Markesan, Wisconsin, and holds an M.F.A. degree in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has been exhibited in many museum and gallery shows, both juried and invitational. These include, in recent years, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio (where he received the Juror's Choice Award), the Sioux City...
Category
1980s Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Cubist Figurative Abstract with Saxophone
Located in Soquel, CA
A highly abstracted figure playing saxophone in this contemporary cubist painting by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.). A bright and colorful palette of pastel purple, p...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BATHER
By William Etty
Located in Aventura, FL
Unsigned original painting. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Artwork size: 16 x 11 in. Frame size: 21 x 17 in. All reasonable offers will be...
Category
Early 19th Century Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Reflection (after The Turkish Room by Balthus)
By Vera Barnett
Located in Dallas, TX
Vera Barnett has taken on a range of themes in her works, producing series of paintings inspired by phobias, famous artworks (as in her series "Classical Plastique,") or most recentl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Diana and the Stag
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Reclining Nude, British Impressionist Oil - Amazing Colours
By J.B. Holmes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Portrait of a Reclining Lady
By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 16x12 inches
Exquisite nude oil painting of a young lady, ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Female Nude in a Studio
By Bertalan Karlovszky
Located in Houston, TX
"Female Nude in a Studio" circa 1910. 19 X 13 1/2 inches, oil on wood panel. Etched signature lower right. Well listed Hungarian artist. Spent his student years under the guidance o...
Category
1910s Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
L'enlèvement d'Europe
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Daydream" contemporary impressionist painting, reclining nude at rest, colorful
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of a nude woman, sleeping cozily in the daytime. A nude figure sleeps curled up on a bed adorned with printed textiles. The open window beams light from a bright and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cathexis #3 #1a
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Cotton sewn on paper
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Paper
Beach Volley
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Oil Painting Titled: Girl in Water
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Oil painting on canvas, this particular piece is one of the few pieces left from her graduate program, her earlier work.
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garden of Earthly Delights, Pop & Fantastical Symbolism, Oil Painting on Metal
By THEDIRTYFABULOUS
Located in Dallas, TX
Title: Garden of Earthly Delights
Artist: TheDirtyFabulous
Media: Oil on metal with polyurethane varnish
Size: 60 x 40 inches / 153 x 102cm
Year created: 2012-2014
Societies have long employed images that visualize their belief systems or attempt to encapsulate a narrative of our human destiny. This work follows in that tradition. The uppermost vignette is a silhouette from the nursery rhyme “Jack be nimble”, a children’s rhyme that refers to a 19th century game and a form of fortune telling. In Roman mythology Parcae (plural) were the personifications of fate. They are used in this painting as bookend figures on either side of a cosmic machine that answers questions of fate. Three vintage light bulbs labeled “yes”, “maybe” and “no” sit atop the clock – like machine and illuminate answers to humanity’s eternal questions.
At the top of the composition are several re- configured tarot / divination cards belonging to an anonymous person circa 1930’s. The cards here are labeled; satisfaction dark woman, jealousy, dark man and betrayal. The grouping of these four cards refers to both positive and negative potentials concerning fate and offer clues to the viewer on a number of possible scenarios it could describe. The lower portion of the picture contains two silhouetted vignettes on either side of a central image of stars and planets against a dark void.
The left image is of two children in a small wagon being pulled by a beetle. This is a reference to Egyptian mythology and the sun god Khepri. who personifies birth / rebirth. Khepri is portrayed as a beetle that pushes the sun across the sky. Here the young innocents...
Category
2010s Pop Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Metal
Reclining Nude: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing sets and costumes for rock bands. This connection with the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Lilac Body: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Subtle portrait from this accomplished English artist.
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Seated Nude with Orange Blanket, Oil Painting by Jan de Ruth
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Seated Nude with Orange Blanket
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.28 cm)
Frame Size: 4...
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pink Room - Female Figure Draped in Fabric, Original Oil Painting by Zack Zdrale
Located in Chicago, IL
Zack Zdrale (b. 1977) takes a traditional approach to his work although his subjects and compositions place his work in the present. He is mostly known for...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Demure Nude Figurative in Library by Margaret Wherry Ziegler
Located in Soquel, CA
A nude portrait of a demure young lady seated on an antique couch in a library setting by Margaret Wherry Ziegler (American, 1909-1989). Signed with monogram "MWZ" top right, and on verso. Unframed. Image, 24"H x 12"L.
Ziegler studied at Cincinnati Art Academy, Minneapolis Art...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Timepiece, Enveloped in time, Oil on Canvas, Green by Modern Artist "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Timepiece - 30 x 30 inches ( unframed size )
Oil on Canvas.
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang condition.
Sunil Das ( 1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist ...
Category
1990s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Early Hours
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: The Early Hours
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 44 in. x 21 in. (111.76 cm x 53.34 cm)
Frame Size: 50 x 27 inches
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
'A Summer Repast at the House of Lucullus', large oil painting by Boulanger
By Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger
Located in London, GB
This beautiful painting was created in 1877 by the well-known French painter, Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. Boulanger often produced work which combined the classical and Orie...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Red Shawl,
Located in Concord, MA
ARTHUR BEECHER CARLES (1882-1952)
The Red Shawl, n.d.
Oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 18 ¼ inches
Unsigned
Framed
Arthur B. Carles was born in Pennsylvania, and stu...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Meditation, " Henry R. Rittenberg, oil, figurative, nude, impressionist, 1910-20
By Henry R. Rittenberg
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Henry R. Rittenberg, a native of Libau, Latvia, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and continued to live and work in Philadelphia and New York for the majority of his ca...
Category
1910s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seated Nude
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Seated Nude
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 36 in. x 24 in. (91.44 cm x...
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nemesis
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams often references historical painting themes and styles in order to throw into relief western tropes in figurative art. Here as part of the artist's series Myths and Lies,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Indian Nude Woman in Green Saree, Pastel on Board, Master Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Untitled - 29 x 19 inches ( unframed size )
Pastel on Board
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
This Painting of a Blatantly Nude and Somewhat Sensous Woman wra...
Category
1990s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil Pastel, Pastel
"Ekstatischer Kult" ( Ecstatic Cult ) Oil Painting 1953 by Walter Wellenstein
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on hardboard, 1953 by Walter Wellenstein ( Dortmund 1898-1970 Berlin ). Signed and dated lover right: Wellenstein 53. Framed.
Height: 41.34 in ( 105 cm ), Width: 33.46 in ( 85 c...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Seated Nude', Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) estate stamp verso and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Cho...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Foam Board, Graphite
Practiced My Smile 2
Located in New York, NY
Practiced My Smile 2, 2017
Mixed media on canvas
48 x 30 inches
Dafni Athanasopoulou (1993, Athens) is a painter and model on the rise. Devoted to the abstract arts, her paintings a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Impressionist Nude, Voluptuous Model, Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Nude, Voluptuous Model, Oil Painting
By French artist Garnvault, 20th Century
Signed by the artist verso
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 15 x 18 inches
S...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Located in Burlingame, CA
'There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe' from Badgley Arnoux's 'Important "Once Upon A Time" series, that exhibited throughout California in solo museum shows at The MAH — Museum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Venus at her Mirror
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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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