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Nude Paintings For Sale
Price: $1 to $3,500
I'm sowing seeds, original artwork by Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Sempach, LU
Welcome to my online gallery, where you can explore my new series of paintings - "The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness." In this series of artworks, I delve into the theme o...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Nude oil painting, large post-impressionist sitting nude by Pio Santini
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Large vintage nude portrait oil painting of a woman sitting. This is a gorgeous, colourful and exceptional nude oil painting by Pio Santini, signed in the lower right. A young woman...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Philippa Hall - Framed Contemporary Oil, Preparing for a Bath
Located in Corsham, GB
A colourful study of a lady standing nude, drawing herself a warm and relaxing bath. The painting has been executed in a wonderful impressionistic style with pointillist qualities th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil

Nude, Oil on Canvas by B.Robert, Ca. 1930
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by B.Robert, France, ca.1930. Younh nude lady lying. With frame : 24x43.7x2.4 inches - 61x111x6 cm ; without frame : 19.7x39.4 inches - 50x100cm. Signed "B.Robert" (see...
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1930s Art Deco Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Thaer - Contemporary Acrylic, Goddess
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking abstract depiction of a female figure captures in bold forms and vibrant colours. Signed to the lower right. On canvas.
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

Red-haired girl, "Gardens of Resilience" series original oil painting
Located in Sempach, LU
Gardens of Resilience: Cultivating Hope There is a literary saying: "For Ukrainians, the heart is in children, the soul is in songs, and life is in gardens." The "Gardens of Resilien...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Shirley Smith - Framed 20th Century Oil, Surrealist Life Study
Located in Corsham, GB
An original work by Shirley Smith. Signed and dated (1989) to the lower left. Presented in a complimenting cream and gilt frame. On board.
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Oil

Sisters in Bloom, Gardens of Resilience by Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Sempach, LU
"Sisters in Bloom" is a poignant portrayal that delves into the profound bond shared between siblings amidst the vibrant tapestry of nature. As part of the 'Gardens of Resilience' se...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Swedish School Mid 20th Century Oil - Fauvist Nude Study
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On canvas on stretchers.
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20th Century Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Ajala Travel 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Ajala Travel" by Abdullateef Salaudeen is a captivating artwork that invites viewers into a world of wanderlust and exploration. The piece centers around a young man, adorned with a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Naked model
Located in Täby, SE
Unique etching in red chalk perfomed in 19030 glass framed oak mint condition. Börje Harald Holm, born May 17, 1892 in Uppsala, died October 3, 1973, was a Swedish painter and graph...
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1930s French School Nude Paintings

Materials

Etching

Woman in profile, watercolor and pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Raphael DELORME (1886-1962) Study of a woman in profile Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper Illegible annotation in the lower right corner 31 x 20 cm Small needle holes at the to...
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1930s Art Deco Nude Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Deschmacker, Young Woman Lying By The Sea, Watercolor
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Paul-Alex Deschmacker, France, 1920s. This watercolor is in the classical period populated by mythological characters of Paul-Alex Deschmacker, itself becoming part of ...
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1920s Art Deco Nude Paintings

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Watercolor

School of Paris, Sleeping Woman, Nude, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Fortunato Pirazzini (1907-2003), School of Paris, ca.1950. "Sleeping woman, Nude". Measurements : with frame : 56x71 cm - 22x28 inches without frame : 46x61 cm - 18....
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1950s Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French nudes painter - 20th century figure painting - Oil on canvas Paris
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (early 20th century) - Female nude. 100 x 70 cm without frame, 109 x 79 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame (some cracks). Condi...
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1920s Art Nouveau Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1980s Erotic nude male portrait of artist's lover, Iconic piece from gay history
Located in Harkstead, GB
This incredibly striking portrait, painted in a fiery palette captures an intimate moment between the artist and sitter who were lovers. Philip Core (1951-1989) Portrait of Adrian Ffooks, 4th/7th regiment Signed and dated 1987 to the reverse Oil on board 30 x 17¾ inches without the frame 35 x 23 inches with the frame Provenance: Gifted as a wedding present to Kit Hesketh-Harvey by his future wife. The artist was a friend of the couple and they had introduced Core to FFooks. Kit Hesketh Harvey co-wrote the screenplay (with James Ivory) for E.M.Forster’s Maurice and he had called upon Ffooks, who was renowned for his horsemanship, to be a stunt double for the equestrian scenes in this iconic film. Philp Core grew up in New Orleans, the son of a well-to-do family. At just seven he won the Vieux Carré Open Artists Competition. He was sent to a military academy, and from 1963 to the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, where he won a number of art and literature prizes. As a schoolboy he self-published a booklet of drawings Palm Fronde Alphabet. An interest in Aubrey Beardsley and fin de siècle artists and writers, led to him spending time in Paris working with Philippe Jullian on his book The Symbolists, before returning to Harvard to complete an honours thesis on Belgian symbolist Fernand Khnopff. He graduated in 1973. Under the pseudonym Féllippé Fecit, he produced a series of erotic drawings for the poet John Glassco for his book Squire Hardman, and in 1968 in the Japanese style for The Temple of Pederasty, a free adaption by Glassco of a work by Japanese expatriate writer Ken Sato. Of this time, George Melly...
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1980s Modern Nude Paintings

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Board, Oil

"Espinas y tallos I" thorns, sexuality, male nude, pastel colors, contemporary
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Artist statement: My work as a figurative painter examines my experience as a gay male living in Mexico today. My early paintings and drawings are explicitly erotic in that they f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Fabric, Canvas, Paint

Nandor Vagh Weinmann, Oil on cardboard, Naked Back, 1930s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on cardboard by Nandor VAGH WEINMANN (1897-1978), France, 1930s. Naked back. With frame: 64x56 cm - 25.2x22 inches ; without frame: 46x38cm - 18.1x15 inches. 8F format. Signed "Nandor V. Weinmann" lower left. In its Montparnasse frame. Very good condition. Born October 3, 1897 in Budapest, Nándor is the older brother of Elemer and Maurice Vagh-Weinmann. He came to Paris to present his work in 1931. He died on December 12, 1978 near Montereau (Seine-et-Marne) following an automobile accident. He is the most colorful of the three “expressionist” brothers. Painter of figures, landscapes, especially open mountains, and bouquets in bright colors. He is also a religious painter and then finds the tragic condition. Born in BUDAPEST on October 3, 1897, Nandor Vagh Weinmann belongs to a profoundly artistic people. Living in the heart of Central Europe where they came from Asia a millennium ago, the Hungarians have preserved a strong ethnic individuality whose mark is their very synthetic, non-Indo-European language. Resistant to secular invasions, they have kept the virtues of a very ancient humanity that have become rare in our modern world, especially since their way of life has remained essentially rural until today. In the arts they know how to express a generous, extreme sensibility and by the poetic verb, by the musical rhythms and also by a popular art of a richness, an exceptional harmony. Until the age of thirty-four, during the decisive years of childhood and youth, Nandor Vagh Weinmann was intimately imbued with popular life and the soul of Hungary. From the capital where his father was a jeweler and had a family of ten children, Nandor was the fifth, he knew first of all the suburbs, the populated districts, the rigors in winter of the cold and the snow. A very mobile existence made him acquainted with all of Hungary, from the Danube to Transylvania, its infinite plains and its wild mountains, its immense villages with ample low houses, and its towns which are still immense villages. The painter is passionate about rustic works, harvest scenes, beautiful folk costumes. Coming into direct contact with the peasants, he learned to know their soul. These contacts gave the artist a direct feeling for popular life and soul, as Millet once understood the peasants of Barbizon and Normandy whose existence he shared. What fascinated Nandor Vagh Weinmann above all were the festivals which enlivened the dreary life of the countryside, the circuses, the merry-go-rounds, the gypsies unleashing orgies of music, light and color. In the party, and especially the Hungarian party, the whole soul of a people, all its energy, its need for movement, for intensity, is expressed in its pure state and realizes the primary and essential form of what is called beauty. And as if melted at the party, there is the infinite steppe where herds of horses and oxen circulate where terrible storms sometimes roar where the seasons unfold their grandiose splendours. The young Nandor Vagh Weinmann nourishes his sensitivity to his inexhaustible shows, both eternal and always new, a sensitivity which very early declared itself that of a painter. Since the age of fourteen he painted, and since then he never stopped doing it. Two of his brothers Maurice, two years his junior, who had a remarkable career similar to that of Nandor and later Elemer who became Maurice's pupil, also devoted themselves to painting, despite family obstacles. And the three brothers united by a common passion worked together in Hungary and later in France. Painting was so much in the blood of the family, as in the past among the Veroneses, the Breughels, the Lenains, the Van Loos and so many other artistic dynasties, that three sons of the Vagh Weinmanns became painters in their turn. One of these, Emeric, son of Nandor, today occupies an important place in the contemporary school. Nandor, at fifteen, was a pupil of the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest where he worked diligently, then at that of Vienna. He painted many portraits, but also landscapes, compositions and, by his relentless work, managed to live from his brush, although married very young and having to overcome many hardships. He therefore knew the hardships and miseries of life. These strongly impregnated his vision as an artist and explain the thrill of humanity that runs through all his work. A particularly moving experience was reserved for him at the age of twenty. In the hospitals of Budapest he had to paint extraordinary cases, operations, frightful wounds, the deformations to which our poor body is subjected by traumas and physiological decompositions. In these circumstances, it is not a question of gratuitous art, of formal research but of immediate, authentic expressions of our flesh and our being. We know that Breughel Velázquez and Goya had been haunted by the sight of cripples and of madmen Géricault by that of corpses. But life is ultimately stronger than anything, and it is life that Nandor Vagh Weinmann has passionately observed and translated through all the places where he has always painted on nature. Nothing stopped him. It happened to him to paint, for example in front of the mill of Linselles by a weather so cold, that nobody could stay outside, and that he did not leave the place before having finished his work. Because he works constantly on the ground, under the sky, in the silence he loves. His reputation is established. He exhibited at the national fair in Budapest, in the big cities of Hungary Szeged, Szombathely, Veszprém, Kaposvar. In 1931, like all artists in the world, he came to France. But unlike the others, he did not settle in Paris. Because Nandor Vagh Weinmann does not belong to this group of cosmopolitans that we call the School of Paris. He settled in Toulouse, where he remained for a long time with his brothers, and traveled throughout France, eager for new ties, exhibiting in the most diverse cities, in Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, Agen, Bayonne, Dax, Tarbes, Grenoble, Nice, Cannes, Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Colmar, Lille. He even crossed borders. He was in Saint Sebastian, in Geneva, and once in Egypt in 1927 where he painted King Fouad...
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1930s Expressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

My Ray of Hope "Gardens of Resilience" series, original painting
Located in Sempach, LU
In my series "Gardens of Resilience," I explore the theme of the human connection to nature and its internal relationship with the world. Each painting in this series is an attempt t...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Baby's Blue
Located in Dallas, TX
Words fall short when art speaks for itself. A language all its own. "Inspiration was never something to seek out but to be awake for." Based in Southern California, Miriam contin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

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Oil, Board

Elegance, nude woman, figurative modern, oil on canvas, textured, minimalism
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Sophie Dumont's captivating painting offers a striking portrayal of the female form, expressed with remarkable finesse and mastery. The use of the palette knife imbues the artwork wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Fairytale flower, "Gardens of Resilience" series original painting
Located in Sempach, LU
Childhood fairy tales and memories of magic follow us as we grow up. The Scarlet Flower is my favorite fairy tale. Today, seeing my granddaughter bending over a flower in the garden,...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A nude. Monochromatic acrylic painting, Abstraction, Female body, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary acrylic on canvas painting depicting female nude by Polish artist Michal Bajsarowicz. The artwork is an artistic take on human body with abstract elements. Composition i...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Blues
Located in Dallas, TX
Austin Surrealist Artist
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Childhood Joy, "Gardens of Resilience" series original art Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Sempach, LU
Amidst the breathtaking collection of the "Gardens of Resilience" series, a captivating masterpiece entitled "Childhood Joy" stands as a testament to the enduring spirit of innocence...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Naked model
Located in Täby, SE
Unique etching performed in red chalk in mint condition glass framed in oak in 1930. Börje Harald Holm, born May 17, 1892 in Uppsala, died October 3, 1973, was a Swedish painter and...
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1930s Nude Paintings

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Etching

Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series Bath NO.1
Located in Beijing, CN
Artist Biography Zhang Chunyang was born in 1975 in Changchun, Jilin. She earned her B.F.A at Jilin University of Arts in 1999, and studied at Central Acadamy of Fine Arts, Beijing ...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Berehynia, "Gardens of Resilience" series original art by Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Sempach, LU
"Berehynia" is the latest addition to the "Gardens of Resilience" series, embodying profound philosophical and artistic principles. In this painting, art meets nature, and symbolism...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

My kitten "Gardens of Resilience" series, original art by Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Sempach, LU
There is a literary saying: "For Ukrainians, the heart is in children, the soul is in songs, and life is in gardens." The "Gardens of Resilience" series embodies the enduring will an...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Naked model
Located in Täby, SE
Unique etching in red chalk performed in 1930 glass framed oak in mint condition. Börje Harald Holm, born May 17, 1892 in Uppsala, died October 3, 1973, was a Swedish painter and g...
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1930s French School Nude Paintings

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Etching

Redhead. 1967., cardboard, oil, 78x48.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Merija Bernere (1903-1984) Redhead. 1967., cardboard, oil, 78x48.5 cm
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1960s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Study, preparatory work for “La Princesse”, watercolor and pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Raphael DELORME (1886-1962) Study, preparatory work for “La Princesse” Watercolor and pencil on paper Annotated “La Princesse” 30,5 x 22,5 cm Small folds and small stains Born in 18...
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1930s Art Deco Nude Paintings

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Pencil, Watercolor

Dream
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Madé Gourdon, France, 1960s. "Dream". with frame: 70x61 cm - without frame: 55x46 cm. 10F format. Signed "Madé Gourdon" in the lower left. In its frame Montparnasse....
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1960s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Burlap, Oil, Canvas

Nude & dog figurative post-impressionist oil painting, woman & dog portrait
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique nude portrait painting of a woman and her dog by French artist Paul Jean Gervais (1859-1944), signed in the lower right corner. A very appea...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

A nude. Monochromatic acrylic painting, Abstraction, Female body, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary acrylic on canvas painting depicting female nude by Polish artist Michal Bajsarowicz. The artwork is an artistic take on human body with abstract elements. Composition i...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Drenched in Sunshine, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A woman sits in a relaxed pose, her figure creating an asymmetrical form. Powerful contrasts and bold colors envelop her, with paint drips and loose brushstroke...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

Nude in the Garden Abstract Expressionist Original Acrylic Painting on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude in the Garden Abstract Expressionist Original Acrylic Painting on Paper Brightly colored abstract composition by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). a nude woma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

DANGEROUS BEAUTY by Vasili Zianko, author's volume-contour technique
Located in Sempach, LU
This Art - work is part of the project "Another Skin" The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of tex...
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2010s Art Nouveau Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mother's Embrace, "Gardens of Resilience" series, original painting
Located in Sempach, LU
In the painting "Mother's Embrace," the artist captures a serene and reassuring moment between a mother and her child amidst a lush garden of vibrant malva flowers, a traditional sym...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Eternity of Magnolia
Located in Sempach, LU
This captivating piece belongs to the unique series of paintings titled "Self-awareness " by artist Tatyana Pchelnykova. The size, format, and mastery of execution make this painting...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Achaemenid women Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art painting nude women
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic painting on paper Hand-signed lower right Unique work THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI " Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to w...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Contemporary nude, A nude women.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
36x24 oil on canvas 39x27 with framed
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

1962 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Nude Portrait Oil Painting - On the Red Chair
Located in Bristol, GB
ON THE RED CHAIR Size: 71.5 x 50 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A large and very well-executed mid-century modernist oil composition, painted onto canvas and dated 1962. In this...
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1960s Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude woman with secrets
Located in Boxholm, SE
Nude woman with secrets – Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sw...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Monotype

Sister, we are under the protection of our garden by Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Sempach, LU
The "Gardens of Resilience" series embodies the enduring will and determination to create life oases, even in the darkest times. Each painting in this series is an attempt to cultiva...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

A nude. Monochromatic acrylic painting, Abstraction, Female body, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary acrylic on canvas painting depicting female nude by Polish artist Michal Bajsarowicz. The artwork is an artistic take on human body with abstract elements. Composition i...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Union: Woman and Swan "Myths" series, original painting by Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Sempach, LU
In this captivating piece titled "Union: Woman and Swan," the artist delves into the theme of symbiotic relationships between nature and humanity within...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Nude
Located in Oslo, NO
In my work I merge feelings with color, creating dynamism and energy through expressive brushstrokes. It is a dialogue between figuration and impressionism, embellished with a touch ...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Watercolor

The Sleeping Universe, "Gardens of Resilience" series
Located in Sempach, LU
In this mesmerizing piece, viewers are transported to a tranquil meadow where a sleeping woman reclines amidst the verdant splendor of nature. Against the backdrop of a serene lands...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Encaustic Figurative 1960's Gloria Dudfield
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield (1922 – 2015) Untitled c.1960's Encaustic and charcoal on paper 16"x18" Unsigned Came from a portfolio of her work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gloria had a Mast...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Paintings

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Encaustic, Gouache, Charcoal

Scythian Sea, Cycle of Being original oil painting
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting is my reflection on the issue of unity with my past and connection with my ancestors. The connection of today's Ukrainians with the forces of their ancestors, self-iden...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Three Graces
Located in Pasadena, CA
Nude study of the Three Graces attributed to André Favory unsigned, after Cezanne. Excellent condition, framed.
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Art Deco Oil Paining Nude with Rose
Located in Oakland, CA
A classic Art Deco Nude Oil Painting of a woman holding a single rose that projects beauty and serenity. A reclining nude is the essence of what is pure and natural yet also desirab...
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1930s Art Deco Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

EVA'S LILIES by Vasili Zianko, author's volume-contour technique
Located in Sempach, LU
This art-work the part of project "Another skin". The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of textur...
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2010s Art Deco Nude Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Nude Figurative Portrait Oil Painting - Angela
Located in Bristol, GB
ANGELA Size: 69 x 58 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A brilliantly executed mid-century modernist style figurative nude composition, painted in oil onto board. The focal point of...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Journey Home, "Gardens of Resilience" series original art
Located in Sempach, LU
Step into the enchanting world of "Gardens of Resilience" with our latest artwork, "Journey Home." This heartwarming piece captures the tender bond between a mother and her young da...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Cubist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Woman Angular Shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait of a Woman signed, 'Samson' British, 20th century oil painting on board, framed frame: 18.5 x 14.5 inches board: 16 x 12 inches provenance: private collection, UK con...
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20th Century Cubist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Reclining Nude (cubist woman)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful painting of a reclining nude by unknown artist. Oil on paper measures 11 x 20 inches. signed and dated lower right margin. Measuring 19 x 27 inches in original period mahog...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, 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.

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