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Nude Paintings For Sale
Oil On Canvas "nude With A Fan" Attribution Henri-camille Danger (1857-1937)
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas "nude With A Fan" Attribution Henri-camille Danger (1857-1937)"
Henri-Camille Danger was a French impressionist and modern painter born in 1857.
The artist died in 193...
Category
1910s French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Untitled 012 (Snow)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original contemporary painting by American artist Bruce Adams.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
Victor Cartagena
Untitled, 2021
Charcoal and India Ink on paper
Unframed dimensions: 30 x 22 inches
Framed dimensions: 35.12 x 26.50 in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, India Ink
Research & Development Figural 3 & 4
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of paintings in one singular frame presentation by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams
Art is the R&D for culture. Artists Conduct the R&D for society. In the late tw...
Category
1990s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Love hate. 2006, mixed media, canvas, 120x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Love hate. 2006, oil on canvas, 120x100 cm
Erotic portrait of two women on pink background in BDSM style. Stencil art
Kristians Brekte (1981)
Educati...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Snow White" Oil Painting 39" x 35" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Snow White" Oil Painting 39" x 35" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
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ABOUT:
Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented Ukrainian painter and graphic known for h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fire, mixed media portrait of nude woman
Located in New York, NY
“I thought the world was turned upside down when I started this body of work right after the 2016 presidential election. Little did I know. I had gone to the Woman's March in Washing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Paper, Acrylic, Pencil, Laser, Gouache
Dipinto mitologico nudo simbolista francese del XIX secolo con cornice
By Emile Meyer
Located in Florence, IT
il dipinto senza la cornice in legno finemente decorata a ornato vegetale in pastiglia e dorata misura 35 x 27 cm senza cornice, è firmato e datato: E. Meyer 1892.
La scena si svolg...
Category
1890s Other Art Style Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Adagio" - Vertical expressionist female nude with a touch of pastel colors.
By E.C. Bell
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hey there. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil
'Can Hats Favor Fire? Can a Hat Aspire to Higher Things?, ' by Mark Gilmore
By Mark Gilmore
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
The full frontal female figure is suspended in mid-air with both arms in motion, seemingly about to jump off the canvas. The blurred figure is set against a clear, graphic backdrop of reds, black and other dark tones with a turquoise rectangular box framing the torso of the figure. A simple black wooden frame frames the work.
"I have been active in telling stories with images for over 45 years. My fascination with shapes and textures are my earliest memories and everything I have done in my adult life has revolved around these interests. I learned a lot about color, composition and story telling by stripping all sentimentality from these elements and using them for more than 25 years as a designer. Although I enjoy the challenge and variety of commissions, my own work is very personal. My work has always been about expressing the otherness and mystery just underneath everyday life. Reacting to the ephemeral nature of life and mortality. All of my personal paintings are just different ways of expressing one moment, one feeling. I’m describing a place I’ve never been with a language I’ve never spoken but I’ve spent my whole life trying to get there because its my home." -- Mark Gilmore...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Graphite, Pigment
Va Va Room by Maggie LaPorte Banks, Abstract painting, contemporary art
Located in Deddington, GB
Va Va Voom By Maggie LaPorte-Banks [2021]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas with carborundum
Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm
Compl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Love Nest
Located in Chicago, IL
Andrew LeMay Cox
"Love Nest" - Overgrown fields of amber grain freckled with flowers of many. On a perfectly sunny day and the wind is strong but gentle. There is no one else in s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Mixed Media
Neo Realistic Body Sculpture in Garden Snail Contemporary New In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Wout Muller (June 18, 1946 – January 24, 2000) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist known for his detailed, often surrealistic works filled with symbolism and fantasy. Born in Hilv...
Category
Late 19th Century Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Astral" Hyperrealism Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Astral" Hyperrealism Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube.
A look through Dmitriy’...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tell me more. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil
Space. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil
Nude Woman on Striped Chair #2 in Charcoal and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Woman on Striped Chair #2 in Charcoal and Gouache on Paper
Black and white painting of a woman by acclaimed bluegrass musician Katherine "Kathy" Kallick (American, b. 1952). Th...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
"Reclining Lady" framed, signed painting of a nude female by artist Joy Laville
By Joy Laville
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Reclining Lady" signed painting of a female nude by artist Joy Laville. Framed with a linen-wrapped mat. Image size: 17 1/2 x 21 inches.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache
What Are They Looking At ? Sexy Nude Naive Caribbean Art , Swimming Pool Party
Located in Miami, FL
A young man at a crowded upper-class Haitian swimming pool attracts attention. We see him only from the back in a Magritte-like pose. The transfixed expressions of some of the nubile bare-breasted bathing beauties and one man with his hands down his pants give us a clue that the mystery man is special.
This is a fascinating work packed with drama and overflowing with pent-up emotion.
Bigaud's narrative is as complex as his figural composition of lookers and swimmers. Notice the sight lines of the lookers go back to front while the two swimmers go from left to right. The twenty-two figures are contained in the rectangular shape of the pool, which is pushed to the front of the picture plane. The cars of the pool partygoers are seen in the background with one witness. He is fully clothed and is most likely a chauffeur. The fully clothed female at the pool offering food is a servant. A boxy-looking radio with a pack of cigarettes and the style of the cars give glue to the date. Most Haitian art depicts average working people. The pool party departs from that tradition and shows life of the Haitian upper class. Most likely, this was painted in Petion-Ville. The higher the elevation in Port-au-Prince the more wealthy the homes. Although the artist's painting technique may be described as naive or lacking polish.
t's one of the reasons why the work radiates charm and interest.
The painting is oversized with huge dimensions of 55 x 48 and will be a statement in any room. Wilson Bigaud is considered to be a Haitian master. The condition is good. Three repaired one-inch issues on the extreme center and upper right edge. Visible only on close inspection. Otherwise presents very well and is elegantly framed,
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Haitian master Wilson Bigaud is renowned for works portraying everyday life and rites of passage—vodou rituals, fortune-tellers, weddings, cockfights, and carnivals—with voluminous figures and lucid colors. Born in Port-au-Prince, in 1946 Bigaud was among the first to attend DeWitt Peters’s Le Centre d’Art d’Haïti, where he studied with Hector Hyppolite...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Golden Chrysanthemum. Semi-abstract, large format, horizontal, grey, mod
Located in Oslo, NO
"Golden Chrysanthemum is an ode to the beauty of the world, the beauty of nature, the beauty of a woman!" said Anna Shesterikova about this painting. "In my abstract painting I tried...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Ophelia". Contemporary, Realism, figurative, expresionism, impresionism, nude
Located in MADRID, ES
"Ophelia". Contemporary, Realism, figurative, expresionism, impresionism, nude
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunny. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil
Woman Learns the Names of Plants, America Martin_Oil/Acrylic_Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman Learns the Names of Plants"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
49.5" x 44" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Three Nudes, Modern Nude Oil on Wood Painting by Roger Derieux
Located in Long Island City, NY
A modern Modern Nude painting by French artist, Roger Derieux, French (1922).
Three Nudes
Date: circa 1960
Oil on Wood, signed l.r.
Size: 6.5 x 11 in. (16.51 x 27.94 cm)
Frame Siz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
'In the Wind' by Via Li - Captivating Expressive Figurative Female Nude
Located in Carmel, CA
'In the Wind' by Via Li is a compelling 48" x 36" figurative acrylic painting that captures the essence of movement and emotion through a whirlwind of color and form. The canvas is d...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Centrifuge. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil
Full moon. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil
"Ballet Dancers" mixed media on canvas
By Gorconova
Located in Carmel, CA
'Ballet Dancers', Mixed media , oil and paper on canvas.
The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal.
Represented by American Art Gallery Carmel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Handmade Paper
Nude Study Oil painting
Located in Greenwich, CT
This stunning and beautifully executed nude model in the studio was done perhaps while Friis was studying at the Académie Julian in Paris. It is framed in a French Louis style frame ...
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Easy. 2019. Paper, mixed media, 72x102 cm
Located in Riga, LV
This art piece is part of the series of unique sizable works called 'Home alone'. By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Felt Pen, Stencil
Dawn. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the recent years Maris Abilevs has been exploring the beauty of female shapes by using mixed media and various drawing techniques raging from expressi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
"The Ring" - Vertical expressionist female nude in dark colors.
By E.C. Bell
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mood. 2019. Paper, mixed media, 94x62 cm
Located in Riga, LV
This art piece is part of the series of unique sizable works called 'Home alone'. By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Oil, Stencil
Young Nude Female Boudoir Scene Erotic Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful nude female portrait boudoir scene by Cynthia Kleinmeyer.
Watercolor on paper measures 8 x 12 inches. Framed measurement: 12 x 16 inches.
Signed and dated 1932 by artist...
Category
1930s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Abrazo en un mundo que no entiendo". Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurativ
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Category
2010s Pop Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"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
The Oracle, Nude Female with Hands Covering Her Breasts, Long Dark Hair
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Oracles provide wise, insightful counsel and were thought to be portals through which the gods spoke directly to people. In Bruno Surdo's "The Oracle", the central female character ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nude Boy Bathing, early 20th Century French School - signed indistinctly
Located in Blackwater, GB
Nude Boy Bathing, early 20th Century
French School - signed indistinctly
Large early 20th Century French School portrait of a young boy preparing to bath himself, oil on canvas sig...
Category
19th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pink Islands I" Oil Painting 39" x 47" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Pink Islands I" Oil Painting 39" x 47" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
AAT: Artwork ships rolled in a tube
ABOUT:
Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dans La Loge
By Dimitri Bouchene
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, signed (lower left), 63cm x 49cm (framed 75cm x 60cm).
Bouchéne was a Russian artist and costume and set designer for theatre, opera and ballet. Primarily working ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Bathers-Nude Boys Sitting on the Rocks beside the Sea
Located in West Sussex, GB
‘The Bathers’
Nude Boys Sitting on the Rocks beside the Sea
Oil on Canvas. 12 x 20 in. (frame.18 x 26 in.) Signed, and Inscribed in Cyrillic on the reverse. Inscribed. Circa 2019.
...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude
Located in London, GB
Hemed’s paintings inhabit a space between realism and intimacy. Depicting contemplative male figures in moments of vulnerability, his work is marked by an emotional depth that resist...
Category
2010s Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Red, Green, and Blue Modern Abstract Figurative Female Nude Painting
By Ben Benn
Located in Houston, TX
Red, blue, and green modern abstract female nude by Russian artist, Ben Benn. This painting depicts a nude woman with her lower body wrapped in a...
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geometric Female Nude in Pink and Mauve – circa 1970
Located in Firenze, IT
Geometric Female Nude in Pink and Mauve – circa 1970
Medium: Tempera on cardboard
Dimensions: H 65 cm x W 33 cm approx.
Description:
The female body is reimagined through a composit...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Nude Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Illustration Board
Haitian Painting of Village Women Bathing
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Artist
Untitled (Haitian Women Bathing), c. 1970
Oil on canvas
24 3/4 x 32 in.
Framed: 30 1/8 x 38 in.
Signed illegibly lower left
Category
1970s Outsider Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stimulus, Scantily Clad Woman with Hypodermic Needle, Original Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Stimulus
oil on linen
50h x 53w x 1.50d in
127h x 134.62w x 3.81d cm
RFF066
Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Boy Oil on Canvas
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exquisite oil on canvas painting by artist Arthur Bowen Davies (American 1862-1928). The work depicts a young nude man walking through a lush green, ethereal landscape. Thick earth-t...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fuerteventura. Acrylic painting, large, horizontal. . Nude model, figurative
Located in Oslo, NO
"I was fascinated by the beauty of the female body on one of the beaches of the windy volcanic island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Archipelago." said Anna Shesterikova about this p...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Un poco de paz III". Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Category
2010s Pop Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Watch Planes + Break Sticks_ America Martin_Oil/Acrylic- Female Nude Figure
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Watch Planes and Break Sticks"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
52.25" x 52" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and cou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
End of October/Beginning of November
By Jackie Felix
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on un-stretched canvas which was featured in the artist's retrospective exhibition at The Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Jackie Felix (1929-2009) earned her Bachelo...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Sitting - Mid 20th Century Modern British Portrait of a Lady Oil Painting
By Susan Crawford
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1970's oil on panel nude portrait of a nude lady by Susan Crawford, an artist who has painted the Queen and many other Royals.
Tryon Gallery, London exhibition label verso. This work likely sold at the artist's 1972 exhibition at the Tryon Gallery - details below.
The work is signed lower right and presented in a fine burr walnut frame. This portrait is featured on the website of the artist under "Portraits".
Artist: Susan Crawford (Scottish, b. 1941)
Title: Nude Sitting
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 27 x 23 in (59 x 49 cm) including frame
Condition: Ready to hang
Provenance: Tryon Gallery, Dover Street, London
Susan Crawford was born in Scotland in 1941 and was brought up on a farm in East Lothian where her parents bred and trained racehorses. She was educated at St Denis School, Edinburgh and at Priorsfield, Godalming, before studying classical drawing for two years at Studio Simi in Florence. In 1967 she went to Ireland for a few days and stayed for almost two years, thereby kicking off her professional career as an equestrian artist.
On returning to London she bought a studio and started getting private commissions to paint a number of famous racehorses and several royal portraits. She has to date painted 22 Derby winners. Her first joint exhibition was with the Tryon Gallery in 1969, where she sold all her pictures on the opening night.
Over the next 40 years she travelled widely; firstly to the USA then Canada, Germany, Brunei, Australia and the Sultanate of Oman as well as with numerous visits to Ireland and throughout the UK.
“Susan Crawford’s working of her paintings is masterly and shows a deep love of horses and animals, together with a special sensitivity towards the human form and personality. Such talent is a rare gift and one that brings enormous and lasting joy into the lives of all who come into contact with it.” HRH The Prince of Wales
Portrait Commissions include:
HM The Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales, HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, HRH The Princess Margaret , HRH The Princess Royal, HH The Sultan of Brunei and HM Sultan Qaboos of Oman.
Her work has been exhibited at:
The Royal Scottish Academy, The National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Queen’s Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The National Horseracing Museum Newmarket, The National Gallery of Pahang Pinang Malaysia, Arthur Ackerman & Son, The David Ker Gallery, The Tryon Gallery and the Crossgate Gallery, Lexington Kentucky.
Patrons include:
HM The Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales, HM The Sultan of Oman, Prince Khalid Bin Abdullah, The Duke of Devonshire, The Marchioness of Tavistock, Lady Bamford, Lord Howard De Walden, Lord Vestey, Lord Weinstock, Mr Paul Mellon (USA), Mr Jock Whitney (USA), Mr Frank...
Category
1970s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Friendship
Located in London, GB
Hemed’s paintings inhabit a space between realism and intimacy. Depicting contemplative male figures in moments of vulnerability, his work is marked by an emotional depth that resist...
Category
2010s Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Tenderness" Painting 55" x 39" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Tenderness" Painting 55" x 39" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
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Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented Ukrainian painter and graphic known for his d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Red Rest
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Original acrylic mixed media painting on laid cream paper from 2011 in excellent condition. Sleeping female figure in grey and rust with stripes.
Signed and dated on the front lowe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Crayon, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment
Jazz Lover
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary artist Kim Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
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.