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Nude Paintings For Sale
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
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Expressive Dual Seated Nude Models
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Study
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 19 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: private collectio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Contemporary . Large size. Vertical . Oil on canvas. "Nude.Sisters"
Located in Oslo, NO
In my creation, I've aimed to capture the intimate and serene connection between two figures, suggesting a harmonious balance and unity. I used oil to give life to their graceful for...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mid Century Portrait of an African American Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century figure study of an African American man by American Impressionist artist Genevieve Rogers. Unsigned, but acquired with a collection of her...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper
$350 Sale Price
24% Off
'Virtual Reality 2, ' by George Oswalt, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This large scale 80" x 72" oil painting by George Oswalt features a summertime theme of women and girls at the beach with a beachball and seagull in the ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,333 Sale Price
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Female Nude Figures, Homage to Botticelli's Spring Time by America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Homage to Botticelli's Spring Time"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
80 x 100 inches (Diptych, 80x50 each canvas)
81.5 x 103 inches framed (81.5 x 51.5 inches each framed pie...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Nomos", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Remmers' (US based) "Nomos" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude man hugging a glowing orb of light to himself as ...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Harry Gottlieb with Standing Nude, Realist Oil Painting by Moses Soyer
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 label verso.
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Two Young Women on Couch" by Wilson - Intimate Nude Women on Earth Tone Couch
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana Wilson (Canadian, born 1966)
"Two Young Women on Couch" 2012
Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
"Two Young Women on Couch" by renown...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
"Approaching Equilibruim" Oil Painting Featuring Nude Female Figure
By Calvin Lai
Located in Denver, CO
Calvin Lai's (US based) "Approaching Equilibrium" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude female figure, standing, with her face in profile and dappled in light. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Do You Recall the Day? - Nude Figures, Intimate Portrayal of a Couple
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographic stills, repurposing them...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rococo Painting, The Brunette Odalisque, Nude Woman, Studio of Francois Boucher
Located in Greven, DE
A voluptuous woman lies prone on a divan, bearing her backside and turning her head flirtatiously to the viewer, though averting her eyes slightly, as if to maintain a coy demeanor. Surrounded by lush fabrics of deep blues, the creamy tones of her skin and dressing gown are thrown in sharp contrast, making the figure glow luminously. The whole painting is ordered by folds - of flesh, of fabric, of cushions, of the rug - inviting the viewer's eye to look closely across the topography of the canvas.
One of Boucher's cabinet paintings (that is, paintings made for private collectors rather than official exhibition at the Salon), the open eroticism of this work invites a voyeuristic gaze. Although it was created for a private audience, it was later displayed at the Salon of 1767, where the critic Denis Diderot found it shocking and lascivious. Nonetheless, Boucher would later paint another iteration of this reclining pose, this time using Marie-Louise O'Murphy, a favorite mistress of King Louis XV, as his model, suggesting that the provocative composition was a stock figure for Boucher's private commissions.
"The Brunette Odalisque" (French: L'Odalisque or l'Odalisque brune) is a painting of c. 1745 by François Boucher, now in the Louvre in Paris. He later produced two other works in the odalisque genre, both known as "The Blonde Odalisque".
The present painting is another version of Bouchers painting which differs in minor details. The quality of the paint is very fine and the whole technique and style allows a dating to c. 1750. As Boucher's Painting was very famous there were several copies and versions which were made by his studio. The present painting can be attributed to the close circle of Boucher.
The Painting is framed in a golden frame which was built in the Rococo style in c. 1990.
Both the title of Boucher's painting and the objects found in the interior fix the subject as an odalisque, a concubine within the harem of the Ottoman sultan. The sumptuous textiles and exotic, decorative objects suggest early traces of Orientalism, although the figure appears European. Odalisque paintings...
Category
18th Century Rococo Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude.Lying.
Located in Oslo, NO
In this piece, I've portrayed a deeply human experience, imbuing the canvas with the vulnerable essence of rest and introspection. Using oil on paper, I've masterfully captured a mom...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Judith Brenner, Solfrid Dancing 2, Original Contemporary Figurative Nude Sketch
Located in Deddington, GB
Judith Brenner
Solfrid Dancing 2
Original Figurative Drawing
Acrylic Paint, Pan Pastel, Ink and Watercolour Pencil on Paper
Sheet Size: 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Plea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
MODELS in front of the MIRROR PETER KUHFELD CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ARTIST
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Peter Kuhfeld (b. 1952)
Painted In the studio, Evening; ; Reclining nudes in front of a mirror signed 'Kuhfeld'' (upper right)
Provenance
with Petley Fine Art, London.
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Curious Gull
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nu assis sur une chaise, Modernist Oil, Nude in Interior by Maurice Brianchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Wonderful oil on canvas circa 1960 by French modernist painter Maurice Brianchon. The work depicts a blonde-haired nude seated on a wooden chair turned away from the artist with her chin resting in her hand.
Signature:
Signed lower left
Dimensions:
Framed: 38"x33"
Unframed: 29"x24"
Provenance:
Fondation de L'Hermitage (Lausanne) - Exhibition Maurice Brianchon 13th October 1989 - 28th January 1990
As a young man, Maurice Brianchon studied at school in Le Mans before joining the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. He went on to study at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, remaining there from 1917 to 1923 and working under the direction of Eugène Morand. It was here that he met and became friends with Oudot and Legueult. When he exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne he was immediately elected as a member. He received the Blumenthal Award in 1924 and the Carnegie Prize in 1939. He was a founder member of the Salon des Tuileries and was appointed to serve on the committee in 1941. He also exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took part in major exhibitions abroad, including the Venice Triennale, Antwerp, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Madrid, Brussels and Stockholm.
He soon made his mark as a decorative artist, creating stage sets for the Opéra for a production of Griséldis (1922) in collaboration with Legueult, and for Noble and Sentimental Waltzes ( Valses Nobles et Sentimentales) (1938), Sylvia (1941) and The Model Animals ( Les Animaux Modèles) (1944). He created a large, decorative piece entitled Symphony at the Palais de Chaillot, where he worked with Chapelain-Midy, Planson and Oudot. He also decorated the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly with murals. With his wife Marguerite Louppe he produced three large panels commissioned by the state in 1942 for the Conservatoire. The Gobelins and Aubusson tapestry works produced tapestries after his cartoons. He also produced cartoons for...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
Oil on canvas painting of a naked woman coming down the stairs, called 'Dream'
Located in Oostende, BE
Oil on canvas painting of a naked woman coming down the stairs, called 'Dream'. By Belgian artist Bertrand Neuman.
Category
Early 2000s Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Hover - Male Nude Suspended in Air, Side View, Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Chicago, IL
A master at capturing the subtleties of skin tone, Richard Gibbons presents an intimate view of a nude male. Suspended in air, the figure appears as ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Sake - Original Oil Painting 48" x 36"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This painting is inspired by Japanese elements and includes traditional decorative ornaments. It depicts a samurai and two geishas playing music and serving sake. The bright colors and the composition of the piece emphasize the merrymaking of drinking culture and express bright emotions associated with it. The sake makes this party possible, and the grid frames of the composition suggest that it is the viewer who is drunk. The painting is signed by the author and can be framed or unframed. It can decorate any corner of the room based on individual preference.
The painting is signed on the back and on the front.
The painting is framed.
Framed dimensions: 54" x 42" x 2"
Unframed dimensions: 48" x 36" x 1.5”
Sergiy Andreyev...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Figure, Flora, Classical Art, Eve In Blue and White by America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Eve In Blue and White"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 42 inches
120.5 x 42.5 inches framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Art Deco Female Nude By George J. Illian
Located in Norwood, NJ
Female nude by George John Illian (1894-1932), American exhibited at the Salmagundi Club Annual Exhibition. George John Illian born in 1894 and was largely inspired by the 1900s and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hot Summer - Nude Oil Painting Colors Blue Yellow Brown Grey
By Ivan Roussev
Located in Sofia, BG
"Hot Summer" is a painting by the impressionist Ivan Roussev.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Unique, signed
Weight: Approxi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother's Embrace, "Gardens of Resilience" series, original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Very Fine Quality c.1900's French Portrait of Nude Lady Post-Impressionist work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Nude Model
French Post-Impressionist artist, circa 1900's
oil painting on canvas, laid on recent board, unframed
board: 14.5 x 11 inches
provenance: private collection, France
co...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tug of War
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is David Shevlino's magnetic 'Tug of War', oil on canvas, 43 x 65 inches, painted in 2022, created with a minimal range of colors, and featuring the ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$23,200 Sale Price
20% Off
French Impressionist Posed Nude Female Figure Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Female Nude Figure
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed
measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide
condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
$580 Sale Price
30% Off
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
Woman with horse and lasso
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Silver wooden frame
42.1 x 32.5 x 3 cm
Category
1960s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Woman in Bed with Mirror - Figurative Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Woman in Bed with Mirror - Figurative Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Modern portrait of a nude woman by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The woman is laying in bed, ...
Category
1980s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fabulous 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of an Embracing Couple, Lovers
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of an Embracing Couple, Lovers, by noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive, abstract...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Reclined Female Nude
By Esther Meyer
Located in Houston, TX
Striking female nude in reclined back seated position on red blanket in ink and watercolor by English artist Esther Meyer, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a whit...
Category
1950s Nude Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Conversations Amongst Blooms, original artwork by Tetiana Pchelnykova
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this latest addition to the "Gardens of Resilience" series, the canvas comes alive with the vibrant presence of three women immersed in dialogue amidst a blossoming meadow. Throug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Red Dirt & Sea - 21st Century, Water, Nude, Landscape, Figurative
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Red Dirt & Sea, 2022
acrylic on cardboard
119 H x 79 W cm
46 27/32 H x 31 7/64 W cm
The series of painted cardboards by Alexandru Rădvan is about our moments of 'respiro' about the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Parrot Tulip II, 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
William Crosbie, Phoenix, Full length nude, Large Scottish Modernist oil
Located in Harkstead, GB
An incredibly striking and sensuous image of the flame like figure of Phoenix, painted on a large scale. A painting with enormous impact and style.
William Crosbie (1915-1999)
Phoe...
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$7,521 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Two Seated Nude Women - British Modernist 1930's oil painting
By Lionel Ellis
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Modernist portrait oil painting is by noted artist Lionel Ellis. The painting comes from a collection of works by the artist, previously owned by his wife. Painte...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$10,028 Sale Price
20% Off
Walking - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realism, Beach View, Minimalism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - Framed 20th Century Oil, Nude on Red Towel
Located in Corsham, GB
George Weissbort (1928-2013), A Seated Nude, oil on board. Presented in a painted wooden frame. Signed to the lower left and dated '94.
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Woman - Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
He was born in Mila...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Original French Pastel Expressive Mid-Century Sketches with Detail
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Sketches
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
double sided
size: 12.5 x 19 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: pri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
$243 Sale Price
30% Off
Mermaids, Fauvist Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Mermaids" is an original watercolor paintng on paper by French artist, Charles Cobelle (1902 - 1994), signed lower right. The playful imagery of the Mermaid, bird and goat in the s...
Category
1960s Fauvist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Summerdream - Contemporary Oil Painting of a Nude Woman Sitting in her Back Yard
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
We got to know Erik van Elven years ago through Facebook, we were Facebook-friends way before we even wanted to open up a gallery. We shared a passion: modern realism. That sparked a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Nude Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful oil painting of nude study titled "The Red Table Cloth" by Bay Area, California artist Shirley Loyst (American, b-1928), circa 1960. Exhibition...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
The wind of change
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The wind of change is rarely warm and gentle, it can rather knock you off your feet. But still refreshing, invigorating and internally feel you can not do without it. Sometimes it's ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Odalisque' Contemporary Nude, Figurative painting of a woman on a bed, pink
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
The figure has a dreamlike quality, giving the piece a tranquil and serene feel. The beautiful detailing is so colourful and Vibrant.
Ignacio Trelis is a Spanish contemporary painte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Contemporary Figurative Painting Portrait with Orange and Blue Dripping Elements
Located in FISTERRA, ES
"Rémora 1" (2024) is a thought-provoking acrylic on canvas by Inés Silvalde, measuring 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm. The painting explores the metaphorical burdens we carry through life, symboli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Standing Nude Study
Located in London, GB
'Standing Nude Study', pastel on art paper, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930). There is something very pure in the naked human body, but for some that purity can veer towards pruriency. ...
Category
1920s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$2,757 Sale Price
40% Off
Morning Bath - Abstract Expressionism in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Morning Bath - Abstract Expressionism in Oil on Board
Colorful abstract figurative of couple in the morning by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963). Two brightly colored figures are sh...
Category
1980s Fauvist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
20th Century French Cubist Painting Female Nude Blue Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Lady
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/...
Category
20th Century Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache
TAMATORI'S TENDERNESS by Vasili Zianko, author's volume-contour technique
Located in Zofingen, AG
TAMATORI'S TENDERNESS. 2021
Acrylic on canvas, 140x100 сm.
This Art - work is part of the project "Another Skin".
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili ...
Category
2010s Art Nouveau Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Coup de nerf" oil painting on canvas, 195x130 cm
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
One of my rare paintings on canvas. Its format made on wood would have been too heavy, hence this choice.
This young woman gets angry on this too small for her violin (child’s study ...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$17,300 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$341 Sale Price
30% Off
"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
"Sun Bather by the Shore" Post-Impressionist Nude Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a whimsical scene of a nude sun bather resting by the sea shore on a blanket with the coast in the background. The bright colors and quick brush strokes are wha...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ondine
By Pierre Marcel-Béronneau
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mystical and mysterious, a mythological Ondine rests beside an ethereal forest pond in this majestic, original oil on canvas by French Symbolist Pierre-Amédée Marcel-Béronneau. A stu...
Category
20th Century Symbolist 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.