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Nude Paintings For Sale
A Fabulous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Seated Female Nude by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Interior Scene of a Seated Female Nude Model by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Completed in the vibrant, Fauvist, ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Nude Oil Painting, Mid-Century Female Nude, Reclining Nude, Nude Woman
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Vintage nude mid-century oil painting on canvas signed 'Georges Duc' a pseudonym used by Georges-Pierre Guingault (1893-1983). This calming and sensual painting is incredibly attrac...
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Mid-20th Century French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Female Study Posed On The Grass Mid Century French Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984)
Medium: oil on board, unframed
Size : 25 x 21 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The painting is in overall...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$662 Sale Price
30% Off
Huge 1700's Florentine Old Master Oil Painting Eros Triumph over Pan Male Nudes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Triumph of Eros over Pan
Florentine School, early 1700's period, unsigned
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 58 x 48.5 inches
canvas: 50 x 40 inches
Provenance: private collection, Pa...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique nude woman oil painting post impressionist female nude by Yves Diey
By Yves Diey
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Vintage nude oil painting by French artist Yves Diey. This oil on canvas portrait of a woman in Chinese Pyjamas is a typical example of Dieÿ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,137 Sale Price
20% Off
Man and the Machines #5 Paula Craioveanu oil/canvas Neo Mythology FRAMED
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Man and the Machines #5”, 80x60cm, acrylic on canvas from the same series of Neo-Mythology paintings.
Young male deity placed in an industrial modern space. It reflects passing of ...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
19th Century Neoclassical Scene - Psyche, Oil on Canvas
By Otto Bache
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this neoclassical oil on canvas signed and dated “Otto Bache 1864”, the artist depicts Psyche standing with her back turned to the viewer beside a red draped table. Her hair is ar...
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1860s Other Art Style Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Early 20th Century Figurative Male Nude Study - English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: John Nicolson RBA RSW (1891-1951) British
TITLE: "Male Nude In The Studio"
MEDIUM: oil on canvas laid to board
SIZE: 48cm x 37cm incl frame
CONDITION: very good
NOTES: Bor...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Female Nude oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Female Nude
Artist: Francisco Ribera Gómez (Madrid, 1907 – Málaga, 1990)
Date: 1966 (signed and dated in Roman numerals: MCMLXVI)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 × 81 cm...
Category
1960s Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,137 Sale Price
25% Off
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Located in London, London
Abstract painting on canvas, blue, extra-large, XXL, large oil on canvas painting, expressionism.
The item is located in central London, UK
WILL BE SHIPPED ROLLED.
No additional cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Colourful Large Female Nude, Femme Nue Allongée
Located in Cotignac, FR
Colourful, large oil on canvas female nude by Isabelle Pardoe. The painting is not signed but came directly from the atelier of the artist.
Isabell Pardoe trained at the Slade scho...
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Late 20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Antique man nude oil painting 1920's portrait of a man in a thong impressionist
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Captivating antique man in a thong signed and dated impressionist oil painting on canvas. Atmospheric vintage almost nude portrait oil painting of a man standing. A man stands in a ...
Category
1920s French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
A nude - Realistic oil painting, Warm tones, Young Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
AGNIESZKA STAAK-JANCZARSKA (born in 1994)
A graduate of the State Secondary School of Art of Józef Kluza in Krakow. In 2020, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in ...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Reclining Nude oil on canvas painting woman
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Reclining Nude
Artist: Roser Vinardell Tolrà (Cabrera de Mar, 1941)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 46 x 65 cm (18.1 x 25.6 in)
Date: 1970s
Signature: Signed in the lower...
Category
1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,009 Sale Price
29% Off
Antique Italian Large Figurative Framed Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Woman
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5154 Antique Italian oil painting of a reclining nude woman
Framed
Image size 24x36"
Category
1930s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charles PICART LE DOUX, Model on Green Background, Oil on Isorel, 1949
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on isorel panel by Charles PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959), France, 1949. Model on green background. With frame: 97.5x76.5 cm - 38.4x30.1 inches ; without frame: 81x60cm - 31.9x23.6 i...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sentada Desnuda, Surreal Painting of a Seated Nude Woman, Mexican Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Guillermo Meza (Mexican, 1917-1997)
Sentada Desnuda, 1941
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
23.5 in. h. x 19.5 in. w.
31 in. h. x 27 in. w., as framed
He was born in México...
Category
1940s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Torso 02 - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you.
Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nude woman oil on canvas painting nude
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Eve’s Spiral
Artist: Nerea Caos (Ferrol, Spain, 1993)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 50 × 40 cm 19.7 × 15.7 in
Framing: Unframed
Period: Contemporary (ca. 2020s)
Signatur...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
"Nu" Impressionist Interior Seated Nude Female Figure Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A Mid-20th Century charming oil painting depicting a seated nude woman in a whimsical interior scene, Ducaire was known for her charming intimate figurative scenes portraying female ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nude, oil painting, impressionistic, live model. Nudes across mediums
Located in Oslo, NO
This intimate oil painting captures a moment of quiet rest and vulnerability. Painted alla prima, the artist works swiftly and expressively, allowing brushstrokes to remain visible a...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Nude, The Artist's Wife, 'Femme Nue'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Female nude, mid century oil painting of the artist's wife by Georges Gonthier. Though not signed it is extensively annotated to the back board with subject, artist and dedication. P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bathing Nudes in Landscape, French Vintage Figurative Oil Painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Landscape with nudes, vintage oil painting of bathing nudes in a landscape by French artist Jean Chevauchet (b.1937). An unusual and interesting almost dreamlike or indeeed Symbolis...
Category
1970s French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$569 Sale Price
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Nude, Oil on Canvas by B.Robert, Ca. 1930
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on Canvas by B. Robert, France, circa 1930. This exquisite oil painting by B. Robert, created in France around 1930, captures the serene beauty of a young nude woman reclining. T...
Category
1930s Art Deco Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Andromeda Monster Carracci Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Agostino Carracci (1557-1602) Circle of
Andromeda and the Sea Monster
Oil on canvas 75 x 59 cm. - In frame 96 x 77 cm.
The subject of the painting, derived from Ovid's Metamo...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$9,758 Sale Price
20% Off
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Acad. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Acad. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
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Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Victor di Ges...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
English 1970's OIL PAINTING Female Nude In An Interior by FRANK JOHNSON
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Frank Johnson (1917-1998) British
TITLE: "Female Nude In A Living Room Interior'
SIGNED: unsigned, from the artists studio sale at Bonhams Chest...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$707 Sale Price
42% Off
Happy, Nude, Contemporary art, Figurative, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Varvarov Anatoly Viktorovich
Title: Happy,
Sise: 53x43.5 inches, (135x110 cm)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Hand painted, original, one of a kind.
Looking at the "Happy" oil paintin...
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2010s Photorealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Woman, Figurative, Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ashot Muradyan
Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen
Year: 2022
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: Nude Wo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Nude Oil Painting, Vintage Female Reclining Nude, Post-Impressionist Nude
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Large Nude, Female Nude, Large Nude Portrait, Original Oil Painting, Vintage Oil Painting,
Large 1960's female reclining nude by renown French artist, Georges Pierre Guinegault (18...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Woman, Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ashot Muradyan
Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen
Year: 2022
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: Nude Wo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circa 1800 French Neo-Classical Study of Male Nude Standing Academic Pose
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Male Study
French, circa 1800
Neo-Classical School, circle of Jacques Louis David (French 1748-1825)
Pencil drawing on paper, unframed
drawing: 14 x 8 inches
double sided with ...
Category
Early 19th Century French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Cubist Oil Painting Female Nude Artists Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model, female nude reclining in chair
by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 29 x 29 inches
Provenance: all the pai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bernard Myers (1925-2007) - 20th Century Oil, Nude VI
Located in Corsham, GB
A sensitive life study in oil by the artist Bernard Myers (1925-2007), with areas of thick impasto. Signed verso. On paper.
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Heartstrings" by Jon Wassom - Mixed Media Figurative Painting, 2024
Located in Denver, CO
Jon Wassom’s "Heartstrings" is an evocative mixed media painting on panel, measuring 16 x 16 inches. This striking composition explores themes of intimacy, emotion, and human connect...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
$1,540 Sale Price
20% Off
1930's French Cubist Signed Oil Nude Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: by Henri Van Der Beck (French 1886-1956), signed
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Painting: 18 x 15 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$665 Sale Price
30% Off
French Expressive Charcoal Sketch of a Standing Nude Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Standing Nude Figure
black pen drawing on artist paper
painting: 13.75 x 9 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
$104 Sale Price
30% Off
"Wood Nymph" (2018) By John Tarantola, Nude Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Wood Nymph" (2018) is a beautiful realist painting done with oil on panel, which depicts an athletic nude male figure standing in a forest, p...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nude woman oil on canvas painting portrait
By Joan Palet
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Nude - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 65x81 cm.
Frameless.
Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors and wood carvers.
He b...
Category
1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$772 Sale Price
35% Off
Josef Dobrowsky (1889-1964) - Framed Mid 20th Century Oil, Nu Allounge
By Josef Dobrowsky
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking oil painting by Josef Dobrowsky (1889-1964) depicting a reclining female figure resting gracefully upon a luxurious white fur throw. Presented in a decorative gilt-effect ...
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 1950's French Modernist Oil Mythological Pink Nudes on Rocky Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Naiades"
French Modernist artist, circa 1950's
The work is faintly monogrammed to the lower corner though hard to tell. There is a name verso but illegible - possibly the artist or ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$6,667 Sale Price
30% Off
French Surrealist Oil Winged Cherubs Flying through Clouds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Winged Cherubs
French School, contemporary
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 8 x 8 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$333 Sale Price
30% Off
Birchina- 21st Century painting of a nude woman laying.
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Daniela Astone
Birchina
50 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
The painting is framed ( frame included in price )
Daniela Astone works and lives in Florence.
For years she was a teacher on the f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fabulous, Abstract 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Sleeping Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, Abstract 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Sleeping Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. A sensuous, intimate studio depiction of a sleeping nude femal...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Radiant 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Portrait of a Seated Female Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Radiant, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Portrait of a Seated Female Nude Model. Painted in a sensuous color palette of wonderful, expressive reds an cool creams, the painting exem...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Pastel, Ink
Venus Cupid Franceschini Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Italy
By Marcantonio Franceschini (Bologna 1648 - 1729)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Marcantonio Franceschini (Bologna 1648 - 1729) Workshop of
Sleeping Venus with Cupid
Oil on canvas 53 x 68 cm. In frame 71 x 91 cm.
Venus, the Roman goddess of love, is port...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Suggestive Nude of a Woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Technical Sheet
Title: "Suggestive Nude of a Woman"
Artist: Rosendo González Carbonell (1910-1985)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36.2...
Category
1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,520 Sale Price
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Asleep Model - Original oil on canvas - Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Claude Gaveau
Asleep Model, 1975
Original oil on canvas
Signed in the lower right corner
Signed again on the back
On canvas 60 x 73 cm (c. 24 x 29 in)
Very good condition
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude. Figurative and abstract acrylic painting, Body, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary acrylic on canvas painting depicting a nude by Polish artist Michal Bajsarowicz. The artwork is an artistic take on human body with abstract elements. Composition is ske...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,375 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Antique Classical Nude Draped in Robes Dancing with Dog Gold Background
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, 19th century
Title: Classical nude draped in robes with dancing dog. The work looks as though it might have been a ceiling...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,190 Sale Price
30% Off
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Portrait of a Nude Lady reclining
French School, circa 1970's
indistinctly signed
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 18 x 26 inches
condition: overall very good,...
Category
1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stevey - 1990 Oil, Female Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine contemporary oil nude study showing a female nude, reclining on a green bed. The artist has signed and dated in the lower right corner. On board. Image size: 30.5 x 25cm.
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Abstract Nude Oil on Canvas Painting by Edith Ferullo
By Edith E. Ferullo
Located in Atlanta, GA
Original Mid-Century oil on canvas composition by American Artist Edith E. Ferullo (1928 - 2008). The painting features a thick textured abstract nude subject. The brutalist artwork ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
Anatomy Lesson, Segment 10 (Small Figure Painting of Two Muscular Nude Males)
Located in Hudson, NY
Anatomy Lesson, Segment 10 (modern figurative oil painting of two nude men from upper thigh to chest) by Robert Goldstrom
2024
oil on linen
12 x 12 inches
signed and in excellent con...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Stuart Denyer NEAC - large English original STUDIO NUDE Oil Painting R.A. LONDON
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Stuart Denyer NEAC (1953-) British
TITLE: "The Studio At The Royal Academy London"
SIGNED: lower right and dated 1981
MEASURES: 120cm x 89cm inclusive of frame
CONDITION...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Orange Voltaire" by Linda Delahaye, Original Oil Painting, Female Nude
Located in Denver, CO
"The Orange Voltaire" by Linda Delahaye (France based) is an original oil on panel depicting a graceful female nude bathed in sunlight.
Born: 1980, Canada
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Stillness" - Oil Painting of Nude Female Figure by Matt Talbert
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert's "Stillness" (2024) is an oil painting on linen, measuring 21 x 14 inches (53.34 x 35.56 cm). The unframed artwork features a nude female figure seated beside a window,...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,750 Sale Price
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Huge 18th Century French Rococo Old Master Oil Allegorical Nude Winged Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Allegorical Winged Nude Lady, adorned with the attributes of Spring
French School, 18th century (Rococo period)
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 52 inches
provenance...
Category
18th Century Rococo Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$7,382 Sale Price
30% Off
"Paradox" Nude Woman Wearing Lipstick and Red Cloak
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This female nude piece titled "Paradox" is an original artwork made from oil on panel by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece measures 24”h x 18”w.
Lauren Rinaldi (b. 1983, Brooklyn, NY) is a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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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