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Nude Paintings For Sale
Nude
By Rip Matteson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nude" c.1970 is an oil painting on panel by American artist Rip Matteson, 1920-2011. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The panel size is 24 x 18 inc...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dismantled, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dismantled, car crash dummy aftermath... or is it? :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed b...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
YiTao Chen Cinderella Series 1 - Nude Lady
Located in New York, NY
Title: Cinderella Series 1
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 11.5 x 15.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2000 Circa
Artist: YiTao Chen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landslide, abstract female figure
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
abstracted painting of female nude, beautiful brush work
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Large 18' Century French Oil Paintings after Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing works of the genre scene, dates to the late 18th century. After the famous French artist Francois Boucher, who was the court painter to King Louis XV.
It is in its origina...
Category
18th Century Rococo Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le chef d'oeuvre inconnu 2 - 21st Century, Male, Yellow, Blue, Contemporary Art
Located in Berlin, DE
Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu 2, 2022
acrylic on canvas
77 11/64 H x 53 5/32 W in.
196 H x 135 W cm
The work "The Unknown Masterpiece 2" (a paraphrase of Balzac's novella – Le Chef d’oeu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
20th Century Oil - Nude On Red And Purple
Located in Corsham, GB
A colourful nude study, showing a seated woman on a red and purple background. The painting is unsigned. their is another cropped painting on the reverse of the board showing a portr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Diafanie
Located in Napoli, IT
Diafanie Mixed media on plastic paper
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years....
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Bright Summer Woodland Landscape Golden Light French Impressionist Oil Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunbathing
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed and stamped verso
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 29 x 36 inches
very good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, France
Josine Vignon (1922-2022) was a French artist living on the Rue Beautreillis in the Marais district of Paris. She painted with a beautiful style, largely influenced by the Impressionist and Post Impressionist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Antique French Oil Painting Sirens and Cupid Dancing along the Seashore
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Adolphe Lalyre (French, 1848-1933) signed
Title: Sirens and Cupid dancing along the seashore
Medium: signed oil on canvas, unframed.
canvas: 22.75 x 28 inches
Pr...
Category
19th Century Symbolist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Studio per la Regina Oil Painting on Canvas Horse People Nude In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Studio per la Regina Oil Painting on Canvas Horse People Nude In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His grandfather, father, sister...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Upside down - Nude Female Portrait Oil Painting, Realistic, Polish artist
By Janusz Szpyt
Located in Warsaw, PL
Janusz Szpyt was born in 1960, he is a Polish painter. He graduated from the Graphic design faculty and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. 1983 onward, he became the m...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nudity
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The study and depiction of the naked body - the quintessence and essence of every person - for thousands of years remains an occupation that is both revered and condemned, causing many discussions, a stumbling block in the history of art...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maurice Colasson (1911-1992) - 20th Century Oil, Reclining Female Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
An expressive study of a reclining female nudes in sweeping pastel colours. The artist uses loose, gestural brushstrokes to bring a sense of movement to the composition. Marked with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
La-La Tempesta - Modern Interpretation of Giorgione's Renaissance Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Lamenting the lack of clear queer imagery in Renaissance painting I decided to paint a Gay version of "La Tempesta" by Giorgione. The small creature in the for...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Untitled I
Located in Miami, FL
“Untitled”
2022
Acrylic on Black Cotton Linen
26 1/2 x 26 3/4”
$2000
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Laura Gonballes is an artist who lives and works in Barcelona, Spain with visual language influenced...
Category
2010s Art Deco Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Bamboo Paper
Woman With Blue Eyes
Located in London, GB
'Woman with Blue Eyes', oil on board, by Peter Robert Keil (1985). A topless redhead gazes out to the viewer with her intense blue eyes. A mysterious blue hand sneaks into view from ...
Category
1980s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Two Wrestlers - sumos
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is David Shevlino's magnetic 'Two Wrestlers', oil on canvas, 26 x 29.2 inches and framed 27.5 x 30.75 inches, painted in 2022, created with a minima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rachel Grainger Hunt (1956-2016) - Acrylic, Creation of Disobedience
Located in Corsham, GB
A light-hearted interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve, who find themselves in a vast landscape. The artist has attached a humorous inscription to the reverse reading: 'Less of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique French Symbolist Oil Painting Sirens and Dolphin beside Rocks Coastal
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Adolphe Lalyre (French, 1848-1933)
Title: Sirens and dolphin beside rocks
Medium: signed oil on canvas, framed.
canvas size: 21.5 x 31 inches plus the frame
Co...
Category
19th Century Symbolist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with a jug
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
"The jug is so simple, any potter blinds it without difficulty, And everything in you inspires me with awe, Everything is full of subtle feminine charms."
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Woman
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache and watercolor on paper
Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a career that stretched for more than 75 years.
Born in 1889, Scarlett had his first retrospective by 1928. He subscribed fully to the modernist credo. Interviewed at the time, he said: "If a futuristic painting...
Category
1940s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Pandora Rose, 2021, female figure, sunbathing, yellow, blue & pink painting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Female figure, basking in the sun; Ink, marker, watercolor, and pastel on paper; custom framing available. Pink, blue, yellow and black. Figurative and folk art style. Prominent line...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Permanent Marker
Female Nude Study Charcoal and Red Chalk Drawing by Georges Lucien Guyot
Located in Atlanta, GA
French artist Georges Lucien Guyot (1885 - 1972) signed this charming woman nude study.
This painting features a lovely design of a woman getting out of the bath and wiping with a towel. Only a few lines in charcoal and red chalk or sanguine mark the silhouette and posture and capture the model's expression. The red color emphasizes the color of the skin and imbues the lascivious movement. The sketches of the bath towel are only suggested, but it gives the whole thing a lot of softness and an incredible illusion of movement.
Signed on the bottom left corner: Georges Lucien Guyot.
The artist used a technique named "sanguine," or red chalk or crayon. The drawing has a blood-red, reddish, or flesh coloration. It has been popular for centuries for drawing employed by 15th and 16th Century artists such as the great masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
The drawing is ornate with a contemporary wood frame with a red and yellow deep-textured pattern and an off-white matte with acrylic glass protection.
Measurements:
With Frame: 20.87 in. wide (53 cm) x 28.35 in. high (72 cm) x 1 in. deep (2.5 cm).
View alone: 11.44 in. wide (29 cm) x 18.94 in. high (48 cm).
About:
Georges Lucien Guyot (born December 10, 1885, in Paris, where he died December 31, 1972) is a French artist, sculptor, and painter.
From an early age, Georges Guyot showed artistic abilities, but the modest conditions of his parents did not allow him to study art. So he did his apprenticeship with a wood sculptor. Guyot excelled in copying works from the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries but rapidly showed an attraction for nature. This attraction led him to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he could study wild animals and translate his observations into sculptures and paintings.
A familiar figure of Montmartre, Georges Guyot was the guest of the Bateau-Lavoir from the time of Cubism. In 1931, he joined the group of Twelve, created by François Pompon and Jane Poupelet...
Category
1930s Art Deco Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Pencil
Untitled, Surrealist Oil on Board Painting by Tito Salomini
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled
Tito Salomoni, Italian (1928–1989)
Oil on Board, signed lower right
Size: 11.5 x 9 in. (29.21 x 22.86 cm)
Frame Size: 18 x 15.5 inches
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Genesis Oil Painting on Panel Beginning Bible Adam Eve In Stock
By Tino Luciano
Located in Utrecht, NL
Genesis Oil Painting on Panel Beginning Bible Adam Eve In Stock
Tino Luciano (1953, Sardinië) Like most artists, Luciano started painting at an early age. His paintings can be consi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tenderness
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
"In love, pauses are especially delightful. As if in these moments tenderness accumulates, breaking through then with sweet outpourings."
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
Estate s tamped
Provenance: Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a career that stretched for more than 75 years.
Born in 1889, Scarlett had his first retrospective by 1928. He subscribed fully to the modernist credo. Interviewed at the time, he said: "If a futuristic painting...
Category
1920s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Cherubs Musicians in pair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Mathilde LEHAUT (1816- nc)
Cherubs Musicians in oval pair
Two Oils on wood signed low
Framed by Gault (Paris) - Gold leaves
Dim wood panel (each) : 27 ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mujer con Cafe - original female form acrylic painting figurative modern cubist
Located in London, Chelsea
Borja is well known in the world of illustration, where he evolves into a more artistic world of Fine Art. This original cubist artwork by Borja Guijarro presents an attractive portr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Maureen Reclining - Original Oil Painting, Nude Female in Slippers, Lush Fabrics
Located in Chicago, IL
This classically painted nude model study demonstrates the artists understanding of the human figure. Surrounded by loosely painted lush fabrics, the model lies in a reclining position, her eyes closed, wearing only a pair of slippers. The quick, confident brush strokes in the background, combined with deft handling of paint in the figure combine to make this a painting for all time.
Andrew S. Conklin
Maureen Reclining
oil on panel
10h x 14w in
25.40h x 35.56w cm
Andrew S. Conklin is a figurative painter. He holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University, and studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City with Harvey Dinnerstein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Juice me up! - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Juice me up! is a fine oil on canvas realized in 2018 by Anastasia Kurakina.
Signed and dated in ink on higher right margin.
This original painting explores the common Kurakina's...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Grey Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist nude figure by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed "Louis Nadalini" in the lower right corner. Signed "Louis Ernie Nadalini" on verso. Unframed. Image...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
Modern Abstract Female Nude Oil on Canvas Gestural Figurative Multi-color
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
EVE
Description: Oil on canvas, figurative, nude, multi-color, gestural, modern, abstract
This painting features Eve, the mother of women, sitting in contemplation in the garden of Eden. Through the use of expressive brushwork, and color, this painting tells a new version of this story from antiquity.
Jessica Benjamin was born in Bloomington, IL and graduated from the New York Academy of Art with his MFA in 2014.
Her paintings have been featured on the cover and interiors of three albums by Wynton...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Did I Steal You Away? - Intimate Painting of a Couple Embracing, Original Oil
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 into images of intimacy.
Rick Sindt
Did I Steal You Away?
oil on panel
18h x 24w x 1.50d in
45.72h x 60.96w x 3.81d cm
RIS036
“This body of work has been crystalizing in my mind for about five years,” says Sindt, “It is the product of reflecting on how the places I learned the most about myself, and my desires, are considered something that sullies a person, something taboo.”
Focused on the experiences of gay men, this body of oil paintings depicts moments that range from tender touches to more sexually explicit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Looking Out, Oil Painting, Impressionism, LA Academy of Figurative Art
Located in Houston, TX
Looking Out by Vadim Zang is an oil painting that is 18" x 14"". This is painted in the style of Impressionism.
Vadim Zanginian was born in Armenia in 1965. He is a graduate from A...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 18 x 26 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to the surfa...
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1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Woman Painting, Modern Art, canvas, oil - PLEASURE - 24x32in (80*60cm)
Located in Sempach, LU
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"Nude Woman Painting, Modern Art" captures the timeless grace of the human form through a modern lens. This painting reveals the delicate interplay of light and sha...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nude Portrait by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in Larchmont, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled (Nude), 20th century
Oil on board
11 1/8 x 14 in.
Framed: 17 x 20 in.
Signed lower right: A Smith
Arthur Sm...
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Thee girl in the old House - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting of a girl
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Marten Huitsing
The girl in the old house
70 x 45 cm ( frame is include, with frame the size is 80 x 55 cm)
Oil on wood panel
The paintings of this artist have been part of the collection of Galerie Bonnard since his graduation (2010) at the Classical Academy of Groningen. Huitsing has quickly become successful, his style, craftsmanship and choice of subject appeals to many people. Yet Marten, he says, does not want to repeat himself. He is always looking for the way of painting that suits him at that moment. The sympathetic artist got national fame because he beautifully portrayed a famous Dutch TV presentator Mart Smeets in the 'Paint the stars' program. Honest, very recognizable and with a narrative painting. Mart Smeets was overwhelmed, praising his comments. Rightly so! From that moment. Marten Huitsing's work has gained increasing popularity, he is an annually returning artist at the renowned PAN and he can hardly cope with the demand for new work.
The work that the artist has made for our gallery that there is always a balanced composition. In the collection there is one painting that is directly an ode to an older master, both often with Marten Huitsing. He did that before. In this case an ode to the French painter William Bougeureau...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
To Be Alone (With You)
Located in Detroit, MI
This painting features a light portal in the subject’s “crown” chakra, the body’s physical connection to the universal or divine. The figure is isolated in a bubble, but the “you” in...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Resin, LED Light
Bill Bate, Blue Beyond, Figurative Painting, Swimming Art, Underwater Painting
By Bill Bate
Located in Deddington, GB
Bill Bate.
Blue Beyond- the figures are loosely based on underwater swimmers. I am fascinated by bodies emerging from their surroundings, using the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer 9 - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
Located in Salzburg, AT
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, secur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
To Be Loved
Located in Detroit, MI
The subject in this painting has his arms crossed over his heart chakra, closing it off from view. Despite this physical closure, a powerful energetic force still radiates from the c...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Figure with Stool
By M. Z. Murphy
Located in Soquel, CA
Artist's study of a model in studio by Los Gatos, California artist Maryanne Z. Murphy (American, 20th century). Signed with initials "MZM" lower right. Unframed. Image, 24"H x 18"L....
Category
1990s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cardboard, Oil
Fairest Rose - French Academic Nude Oil Painting by Delphin Enjolras
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed nude in interior oil on canvas circa 1900 by French academic painter Delphin Enjolras. The piece depicts a red-haired nude resting on a bed in a lush boudoir with a sheer scar...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Swim
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Morning Swim
Artist signed, titled verso.
Wallace Bassford was an American painter and illustrator, known particularly for his floral still-lifes and portraits. Born in St. Louis, Mi...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Their Whole Private Selves - Two Nude Bodies Entwined, Original Oil on Panel
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 pornographi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Impressionist 20th Century Oil - Sitting on a Brown Chair
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. There is an oil figure study on the reverse. On card.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seated Nude - Oil Paint by Giuseppe Torelli - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Nude is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Torelli in 1950s.
Oil on cardboard.
64x48 cm with frame.
Handsigned in the lower right margin.
Category
1950s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
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: 25 x 18 inches
condition: overall very good,...
Category
1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venus
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
77 x 63 x 8 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bathsheba" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Bathsheba" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model in an interior setting.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 18 x 25.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light m...
Category
1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Curious Gull
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --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...
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2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large American Impressionist Signed Women Bathers Nude Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist painting of two nude bathers in a landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed lower right. ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alexander Redein FauvistNude Portrait, Titled "At Home"
Located in Larchmont, NY
Alexander Redein (American, 1912 - 1990)
At Home, 1975
Oil on board
12 x 15 3/4 in.
Framed: 17 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.
Signed lower right: Redein
Inscribed verso: At Home 1975
Alex Redein was born on January 21, 1912 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was a prominent member of the New York art community for many years. He studied at Yale School of Fine Art, The Art Students League, and in Mexico City. Along with Remo Farrugio, Byron Browne, Herbert and Henry Kallem, Joseph DeMartini, Michael Lekakis...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
TnT - Surreal Nude Figure, Fine Point Graphite Drawiing, Matted and Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
An overly exaggerated nude figure is the subject of Oliver Hazard Benson's drawing entitled "TnT". Upon closer look, the artist's fine hand is evident in the amazing detail in the f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Giclée
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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