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Nude Paintings For Sale
Cynthia (with Cat) /// Modern James Roy Hopkins Pet Nude Figurative Grass Sun
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: James Roy Hopkins (American, 1877-1969)
Title: "Cynthia (with Cat)"
*Monogram signed and dated by Hopkins lower right
Year: 1937
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Recently framed in an Art Nouveau gold gesso moulding
Framed size: 39.25" x 50.25"
Canvas size: 34" x 45"
Condition: In excellent condition. A large beautiful and well executed work.
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Chicago, IL.
Biography:
James Roy Hopkins (1877-1969) was born in the rural farming community of Irwin, Ohio in 1877. His mother, Nettie Hopkins, painted with watercolors recreationally and encouraged her son’s artistic interests. Though he shared his mother's love of art, Hopkins initially entered Ohio State University in 1896 to study electrical engineering. However, he soon left and briefly enrolled in the Columbus School of Art before going to the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he studied with Frank Duveneck. In 1900, Hopkins moved to New York City and worked as a medical textbook illustrator. Two years later he made the pilgrimage to the art center of the western world at the time, Paris, France.
While in Paris he improved his craft at the Académie Colarossi. Hopkins embraced Parisian life and socialized with and visited the studios of such great artists as Pierre...
Category
1930s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil, Gesso
"Overlapping, " Oil Painting
By Ryan Morse
Located in Denver, CO
Ryan Morse's "Overlapping" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the back of a nude female figure eclipsing the body of another nude female fig...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Gladis the Glamorous – Contemporary Queer Portrait with Fuchsia Overflow, 2017
Located in FISTERRA, ES
“Gladis the Glamorous” is a provocative oil on canvas by Spanish artist Inés Silvalde, offering a raw and unfiltered portrait of a nude female figure partially submerged in a bathtub...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
In Green and Scarlet, Oil Painting
By Lisa Nielsen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Lisa Nielsen presents a delicate portrait of a nude woman. The model stretches into a quiet moment but with a dash of fantasy. Lisa offers a tender mom...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
September Poppies, Original painting on paper, Nature, Rose, Flower
Located in Deddington, GB
This drawing is one in a series of botanical line drawings depicting the seasonal flowers of English gardens and the countryside.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Colour Pencil on Paper
Sold...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Reading Garden Spirit, Floral Figurative Contemporary Original painting, Books
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting on paper by Agnese Negriba- In this artwork a female figure is depicted in a sitting position. She holds a book placed in front of her. The depicted person has retr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Seated Nude, Nudes Oil on Canvas Painting by Jalal Gharbi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Seated Nude, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm), Description: An oil painting of seated ...
Category
1970s Folk Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude by Carmen Bilbao - Oil on canvas 80x90 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 88x98 cm
Carmen Bilbao was born in Bolivia in 1954. Graduated in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts at the...
Category
1990s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
To Dance and Dance, green blue Wild Woman Series, colorful powerful woman
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Colorful image of a powerful woman enjoying the dance.
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book.
Watercolor, mixed media, usi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
The Dance 19th-century Large Antique Nude Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed & Dated
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Exhibited at the Paris Salon, exhibition label on reverse.
Description:
Édouard François Zier (1837-1924) was a French painter known for his captiva...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reverie - Neo-Impressionist Nude Figurative Oil Painting by Georges Lemmen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on board nude circa 1905 by Belgian neo-impressionist painter Georges Lemmen. The work titled 'Reverie' depicts a red-haired lady who is kneeling down and resting her head on her arm.
Signature:
Signed lower right and titled on original artist's label verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 16"x19"
Unframed: 10"x13"
Provenance:
Original artists label verso for Georges Lemmen at 96 Avenue Coghen , Brussels
Private collection - Brussels
Georges Lemmen was the son of an architect and studied under Amédée Bourson at the academy in St Joost-ten-Node. He was invited in 1889 to join the Group of Twenty ( Cercle des XX) which had been launched in 1884 by Oscar Maus and had in the interim emerged as an influential force in Belgian artistic circles, not least by bringing to public and critical attention the work of such artists as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. The Cercle des XX would be reborn in 1894 as La Libre Esthétique.
In the early days of the Cercle des XX, Lemmen espoused a pointilliste technique. His earlier painting was clearly influenced by the Neo-Impressionists; over time, however, his style became more subtle and nuanced - recalling, perhaps, that of his compatriot Van Rysselberghe, another Cercle des XX member. With the group's rebirth as the Libre Esthétique, Lemmen's work became more intimiste in character, most notably in his portraits, nudes and still-lifes, where the influence of Bonnard and Vuillard is unmistakable, as is that of Renoir, particularly after Lemmen's travels in the Midi in 1911. From this point onwards, he would go on to make a major contribution to the renewal of the graphic and decorative arts in terms of his input to the new 'free' aesthetic and to Art Nouveau. Although his draughtsmanship retained its essential purity and elegance of line, his painting became more fleshy, imprecise and sensual, his compositions governed less by technical considerations than by the urgent need to express his emotions.
Between 1889 and 1893, Lemmen exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, aligning himself with the Neo-Impressionists. In 1893, Henry van de Velde invited him to participate in the Pour l'Art association that had been created in Antwerp. He travelled to the south of France in 1911. By this juncture, he had already exhibited solo on two occasions (in 1906 and 1908) at the Galerie Druet in Paris. A further solo exhibition in 1913, his first in Brussels, cemented Lemmen's reputation.
Museum and Gallery Holdings:
Bremen (Kunsthalle): Standing Nude Combing her Hair
Brussels (Mus. royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique): Children's Room (watercolour); Reading; Couture; Young Girl by the Sea...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Painting, Changing Bear Maiden, Nude Woman Laying w/ Wolf, Taos Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Cynthia Bissell (American, 1924-2000)
Changing Bear Maiden, 1962
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
20 x 50 inches
26 x 56 inches, framed
Cynthia Bissell was an American art...
Category
1960s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sweetie One
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on wood plaque by Lauren Rinaldi measuring 9.5"h x 5"w.
Lauren Rinaldi works using unbiased portraits of women’s bodies as a vehicle to explore ideas about b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sitting" figuratif nude acrylic on linen canvas 60x60cm 2010
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
figuratif "Sitting" acrylic on linen canvas 60x60cm nude 2010
the beauty of the body in opposition to violence.
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Figurative - "Lovers’ Embrace"
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstract Expressionist Painting - "Lovers’ Embrace"
Wonderful example of a vibrant abstract expressionist figurative of couple embracing by ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Orientale
Located in New York, NY
Signed, lower right: Fantin
Provenance:
Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris; possibly by descent to his son:
Julien Tempelaere (1876–1961) and with F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, prob...
Category
1890s Romantic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Laying Nude with Blue Lance - Oil on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Laying Nude with Blue Lace is an artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Oil on canvas.
Beautiful original frame included...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rêverie
By Albert Lynch
Located in Paris, FR
Albert LYNCH (1851-1936)
French
"Rêverie"
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Canvas: 43 1/4" high x 24 3/4" wide
Frame: 49 5/8" high x 30 3/4" wide
Albert LYNCH: Born in Lima in 1851, Albert Lynch studied art at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris and in the studios of the figure painters Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Lehmann...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Framed Artist Studio Nude Woman Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene with a nude woman oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 22L x 26H.
Category
1960s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Annunciation" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Annunciation" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model in an interior bathroom setting.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Naked Beauty Lying with her Fan
Located in St. Albans, GB
Léon Laurent Galand
1872 – 1960
Signed and dated 1928 bottom left
Artwork Size: 25.75 x 36" (66 x 92cm)
Artwork Size with Frame: 32.75 x 43" (83 x 109cm)
Oil on Canvas
Discounted ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Model Asleep - Mid 20th Century Nude Still Life Oil Painting by Dorothy King
By Dorothy King
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Dorothy King was born and lived in London in 1907. She studied at the Hornsey School of Art under JC Moody, then briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art with Randolph Schwabe. She to...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guardian of the Enchanted Grove
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"Guardian of the Enchanted Grove" is a striking portrayal of the intertwining of human and nature, steeped in symbolism and vibrant color. The central figure, a wo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a naked woman after a card play
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Pierre-Albert BÉGAUD
(Bordeaux 1901 – 1956)
End of game
Oil on canvas
H. 27 cm; L. 46.5 cm
Signed lower right
Pierre-Albert Bégaud is a French portrait and landscape painter born in...
Category
1930s French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Baigneuse
By Marguerite Arosa
Located in Paris, FR
Marguerite AROSA
(1850-1903), French
"Baigneuse" (Bather)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Canvas: 66 1/5" high x 50" wide
Frame: 74 1/5" high x 57 1/2" wide
This painting was e...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Twins with Red Coat. One of a kind artwork intervened by the artist, (Framed)
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Twins with red coat
Framed archival pigment image on canvas, intervened with hand-applied paint, ink and intentionally scratched by the artist
Image size: H 25 in. x 27 in. W
Frame s...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Nude Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Pigment
Nude in the Shadow original painting by Paula Craioveanu elipse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Original painting representing a female nude in afternoon light . Female nude seen by a female artist - female gaze. Painted on oval canvas. Size is 65 x46 cm / 25.5 x18in. Ready fo...
Category
2010s Feminist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Act. 1979. Oil on cardboard, 96x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Act. 1979. Oil on cardboard, 96x70 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and G. Skilt...
Category
1970s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
'Reclining Nude in Interior', California Post-Impressionist, Louvre, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with estate stamp.
Framed dimensions: 21 H x 1.5 D x 24.75 W inches
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Vic...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Nude woman, from behind
By Isaac Israëls
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Isaac ISRAELS (1865-1934)
Nude woman, from behind. Circa 1900
Oil on canvas, 81 x 45 cm
Provenance
Private collection, France
The attribut...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"In the moment" (contemporary figurative oil painting of a woman on the beach)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary painting "In the moment " featuring a woman lying on the beach makes part of my series dedicated to "Women".
This art piece is all about a committed life of engag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Linen
Trance
By Casey Childs
Located in Denver, CO
Trance, 2016
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
"Nature Figure 1" (2024) by Matthew Alfonso Durante, Female Nude Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
"Nature Figure 1" (2024) by Matthew Alfonso Durante is an original handmade mixed media painting that depicts a nude female model in front of a greyscale landscape. This piece measu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Clay, Acrylic, Panel
Eros and Psyche
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Nude Male Academy
Located in Gent, VOV
This academic drawing is characterized by its focus on classical techniques and the study of human anatomy. The meticulous attention to the human form and the use of chiaroscuro (the...
Category
19th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
La Toilette - Post-Impressionist Nude Oil Painting by Georges D'Espagnat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on original canvas nude circa 1914 by French post impressionist painter Georges D'espagnat. The work depict a nude woman standing beside a wash basin in a boudoir.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 45"x34"
Unframed: 37"x26"
Provenance:
Private collection - Netherlands
From the beginning of his career, it was a constant concern of Georges d'Espagnet to assert his originality. His studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, did not last very long, for he wanted immediate independence and decided to follow courses in the private academies of Montparnasse. In about 1900, he became acquainted with Maurice Denis, Bonnard and Vuillard, and his collaboration with Denis led to a renewal of religious art in France.
In 1903, d'Espagnet was one of the founders of the Salon d'Automne, and was appointed professor in charge of studios at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1934. He illustrated a number of books: Rémy de Gourmont's Evil Prayers ( Oraisons mauvaises) (1896), The Saints of Paradise ( Les Saintes du paradis) (1898), Simone (1907), Sistine ( Sixtine) (1922); Alphonse Daudet's The Immortal ( L'Immortel) (1930); André Gide's The Pastoral Symphony ( La Symphonie pastorale); Francis Jammes' Clearings in the Sky ( Chairières dans le ciel) (1948).
D'Espagnet belongs to the group of artists who made the Courrier Français so successful. The drawings of his which are published in it are strongly expressive and some bear comparison with the designs of the great Renaissance masters. He also contributed to L'Image. He often placed cheerful nudes in a landscape, reminding us that, though he moved away from the Fauves, he retained their freedom of colour and arabesque. He painted many portraits, including those of Albert André, André Barbier, Victor Boucher, Déodat de Séverac, Albert Marque, André Marty and Albert Roussel. He also painted mural decorations, including a wall for the Palais de la Découverte (1937), the ceiling of the Victor Hugo Room in the Palais du Luxembourg (1939), a decorative panel for the Palais de Justice, Toulouse (1941) and interior decorations for private houses. His landscapes are Impressionist in inspiration, and work for a certain sobriety, an intimacy, both in their composition - one, two or three sketched figures and large open spaces - and in the choice of colours and treatment with the special hazy brushstroke that marks his style.
D'Espagnet took part in a number of annual Parisian exhibitions, including the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne (from 1903 to 1949, except in special circumstances), the Salon de la Libre Ésthétique, Brussels (1899, 1901), the Berlin Secessionists (1940). He also exhibited at the first Salon de la Société de la Gravure sur Bois. Among other exhibitions were 1912, A Century of French Art ( Centenaire de l'art français), St Petersburg; 1916, Kunstverein, Winterthur; 1918, 1926, Galerie M. Bertheim, Paris; 1930, Contemporary French Art...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Nude Lady with Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French Modernist, dated 1940
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 14 x 9.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Respite
By John McLeod
Located in Denver, CO
Nude reclining figure in candlelight
Category
2010s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rêveries, Female nude, Oil, figurative, Contemporary Expressionism, French Art
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Sophie Dumont's oil painting captivates the viewer with a bold representation of a reclining woman, seen from behind. The artist's style, characterized by rounded and sensual figures...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Portrait of a Spanish Woman - Scottish art female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This striking nude portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist William Crosbie. It is entitled Guapa verso, Spanish for a beautiful woman. Painted in 1981, she is wearing a bla...
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Lift Off", Underwater female swimmer and soothing green water, Oil on canvas
Located in Dallas, TX
"Lift Off" is a stunning oil on canvas by Patsy McArthur, showing an underwater nude female swimmer surrounded by refreshing, cool turquoise green water.
Scottish artist Patsy McArt...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Transition #9, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elena Burykina's "Transition #9" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman running her fingers through and gathering her dark hair to reveal her back as she is turne...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Classical 19th century French Nude of a lady in the Barbizon Forest landscape.
By Leon Richet
Located in Woodbury, CT
Classical 19th century French Nude of a lady in the Barbizon Forest landscape.
Richet spent much of his adult life in Paris. It was there that he met and became a student of Jules L...
Category
1860s Victorian Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Trust" (2022) Oil Painting by Calvin Lai Featuring Two Acrobats
By Calvin Lai
Located in Denver, CO
Calvin Lai's (US based) "Trust" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts two acrobats with the female figure balancing on the male figure.
Artist Bio:
Calvin Lai's art i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
White Dress - figurative female semi nude beauty / abstract realism
Located in Burlingame, CA
American artist David Shevlino's female figure in a white dress beautifully links traditional representation with abstraction. Through Shevlino’s sensuous application of paint, his u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
"A Black and White Girl in a Technicolor World" (2023) by Linda Delahaye
Located in Denver, CO
"A Black and White Girl in a Technicolor World" by Linda Delahaye (France based) is an original oil on panel depicting a somber moment of a woman adorned in 1930s attire, collecting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
I wanna chilling on the beach
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work is a celebration of the beauty and peculiarity of every woman, regardless of age and figure.
The brightly painted woman's body brings a joyful mood to the painting.
Category
2010s Feminist Nude Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Varnish, Acrylic
Reclining Nude Figure in the Morning Light
Located in Soquel, CA
Reclining Nude Figure in the Morning Light
Reclining nude figure in bed by Elliot, a Santa Cruz County artist (American, 20th Century). A figure is laying facedown in bed, with thei...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Model with Mandolin in Ink and Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Model with Mandolin in Ink and Charcoal on Paper
Black and white painting of a woman by acclaimed bluegrass musician Katherine "Kathy" Kallick (American, b. 1952). A woman is sitting in a chair, with a mandolin in her lap. She is shown in profile, looking to the viewer's right. Next to the chair is an end table with a vase of flowers.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Paper size: 22.5"H x 28.38"W
Katherine Kallick...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Woman with Tapestry - Nude Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful figurative painting of a female nude figure standing with a vibrantly colored and patterned quilt by Rebecca Hall (American, 20th Century). Signed "Rebecca Hall 1984" on ve...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diana and Actaeon, a Mannerist painting after Joseph Heintz the Elder
Located in PARIS, FR
This painting seduced us with its rich colors. Depicting Diana and her companions surprised by Actaeon, it was inspired by an engraving by Aegidius Sadeler II after a painting by Jos...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Alexandra Leaving" realist & abstract merged in oil painting of woman on bike
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Alexandra Leaving" is both a realist & abstract oil painting of a woman riding away on her bike in the evening. in Springs, Long Island, where the artist lives - right near where Ja...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crossed Arms (Portrait of a Blond), Nude Oil Portrait by Jan De Ruth
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Crossed Arms (Portrait of a Blonde)
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 35 in. x 25 in. (88.9 cm x 63.5 cm)
Frame Size: 44 x ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Muse - Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The Muse - Original Watercolor on Paper
Original black and white watercolor on paper depicting a reclining nude by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). The woman is laying on her ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
The Couple - Oil Paint attr. Edgar Stoebel - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The couple is an artwork attribuited to Edgar Stoebel (1909-2001).
81 x 54 cm; no frame.
Oil painting on canvas.
Good conditions!
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Peripheral Dream" by Jon Wassom, Mixed Media, Male Nude
Located in Denver, CO
Jon Wassom's "Peripheral Dream" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a male nude. This piece is unframed yet ready to hang.
Jon Was...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
1970's Surrealist Figurative -- "Two Nudes in Interior"
Located in Soquel, CA
Stark, surrealist study of two nude figures in a color saturated room by Clayton Anderson (American, 20th Century), 1970. Signed and dated by the artist, left margin. Presented in a ...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Andromède
Located in Barbizon, FR
"Andromède" Oil on canvas, signed in the bottom right corner, 1904.
Origin:
Galerie F&J. Templaere, Paris,
Collection Achille Raymond, Grenoble in 1936
Sale at Christie's, New York,...
Category
Early 20th Century Barbizon School 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.