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Nude Paintings For Sale
"Bolonia IV" – Oil Painting, Female Nude Beach Scene
Located in Denver, CO
"Bolonia IV" by Conrado López is a striking original 2024 painting depicting a female nude figure executed in acrylic, gold leaf, and oil on canvas. Measuring 39.37 x 25.59 x 1.18 in...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
HEAT - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
Located in Salzburg, AT
This work is framed. Unframed size: 90x120 cm, framed 95x125 cm
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicol...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rococò French master - 18th century figure painting - Sleeping Diana
Located in Varmo, IT
French Master (18th century) - Sleeping Diana.
95 x 125 cm.
Old oil painting on canvas, without frame (not signed).
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of t...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,581 Sale Price
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Girl in a Chair, Large Painting by Bill Wiman
By Bill Wiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bill Wiman, American (1940 - )
Title: Girl in a Chair
Year: 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 82 x 83.5 in. (182.88 x 212.09 cm)
Frame: 83 x 84.5 inches
Category
1970s Photorealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Blake of Night" (2012) By John Tarantola, Original Nude Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Blake of Night" (2012) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts an athletic nude male figure crawling forward on a slab o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Exercising En Plein Air
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed in red, u.r.
$3250.00 + $200.00 framing
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men on Beach, Painting by Mark Beard
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men on Beach is a painting by the artist Mark Beard which depicts two men in speedos standing on a beach.
n.d.
Signed i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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"Gabrellia #3 S~Curve" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dave Seeley's (US based) "Gabrellia #3 S~Curve" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude female model standing in a contrapposto stance.
About the artist:
My sub...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Ernest Bendell-Bayly - 20th Century Oil, Nude on the Chequered Pillow
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Male Figure, Flora, Classical, Adam In Blue and White by America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Adam In Blue and White"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
120 x42 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
Edouard Goerg, Les 3 Brunes, Large Oil on Canvas, 1955
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Large oil on canvas by Edouard GOERG (1893-1969), France, 1955. LES 3 BRUNES. With frame : 114x95cm - 44.9x37.4 inches ; without frame : 92.2x73 cm - 36.3x28.75 inches. Format 30F. S...
Category
1950s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nymphe endormie
By Jean-Jacques Henner
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Good overall Conditions. Old varnish and minor retouching on the nose.
Orignal frame in excellent condition. Medal plate Henner.
Jean-Jacques Henner was born on March 5...
Category
1890s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude in Interior (Woman on Top) large oil painting Paula Craioveanu 39x27in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude in Interior - Woman on Top" - original large art by Paula Craioveanu
Original, large, unique painting, oil on canvas, 39x27in / 100x70cm . Shipped as it is stretched ready for ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 16th Century Old Master Oil Painting The Judgement of Paris Mythological
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Judgement of Paris
Fontainebleau School, circa 1580 *see notes below
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 30 x 40 inches
canvas: 27 x 37 inches
Provenance: private collection, ...
Category
16th Century Mannerist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Green Garden Spirit, Floral Figurative Contemporary Original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting on paper by Agnese Negriba- The artwork depicts a female garden spirit in a moment of rest. Artwork invites to enter a space that is full of fragrance, humming soun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Corner Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
Female Nude, oil on board. Signed lower right.
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Goddess of Mercy, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Goddess of Mercy" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude woman floating above several burning boats at sea.
About the Artist:
David is an inter...
Category
2010s Photorealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Reverie" by Dave Seeley, Ascending Nude Female
Located in Denver, CO
Dave Seeley's "Reverie" (2023) is a captivating original oil on canvas painting. The nude female figure floats gracefully, her elongated pose conveying weightlessness and freedom. Se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$7,520 Sale Price
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Standing nude wearing a red feather flapper.
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov
(Born 1974) Russian
Standing nude wearing a red feather flapper.
Oil on canvas: 14 x 9 inches. Frame: 20 x 15 inches.
Konstantin Razumov's work has been offe...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rococò Italian painter - 18th/19th century figure painting - Nude female
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th-19th century) - Female nude.
44 x 54 cm without frame, 54 x 64 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas mounted on a panel, in a carved and gilded wooden...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,790 Sale Price
40% Off
Faun`s rest, 70x80cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Faun`s rest, 2021, 80x70 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,275 Sale Price
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Nymph from behind with statue and cherub
By Albert Cresswell
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Large, Sensational Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Showgirl, Burlesque Dancer
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Sensational Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Chicago Night Club Showgirl. Painted in the 1950s, this is a large, vertical, abstracted portrayal of a standing Burlesque danc...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Female Figure, Flora, Classical Art, Eve In Blue and White by America Martin
Located in 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
The Bath. Late 19th Century. Oil on canvas, 61x46 сm
Located in Riga, LV
Vinsent G. Stiepevich (1841 - 1910)
Russian and American artist. Emigrated to New York in 1878, where he lived in Brooklyn, Vincent Stiepevich was noted for his realist painting style of portrait, figure and genre subjects, especially in Harem and Orientalist* settings.
Memberships in New York included the Artists Fund Society* the Brooklyn Art Association*, 1878-82, 1891; National Academy of Design*, 1878-91; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts* annual, 1885, 1888-91; Boston Art...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude of Klaudia from One Side - Oil Paint by Marco Fariello - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Klaudia from one side is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello. It is made on canvas, painted in oil in 2021.
The subject of the work is the representation of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Energy Field - Floating Nude Figure Surrounded by Hoops, Original Oil, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
A nude figure is suspended in air, being held up by an invisible force field and surrounded by loops of wire. The muscular figure is tense with all the defined muscles showing. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"See No Evil" – Figurative Oil Painting of Nude Female Figure in Lace Blouse
Located in Denver, CO
Dave Seeley’s "See No Evil" is a powerful large-scale oil painting on canvas mounted to panel, capturing a moment of intimate vulnerability and introspective solitude. Measuring 44.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Vintage French Three Male Nudes Embracing Blue Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2897 Blue figures,contemporary acrylic on board,displayed in a black wood frame,signed lower left by Veron .Image size 9.5 H x 7.5 W
Category
1980s Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Shadow of Light - Nude Figurative Study with a Bottle of California Wine
Located in Soquel, CA
Shadow of Light - Nude Figurative Study with a Bottle of California Wine
Abstract expressionist watercolor and charcoal painting depicting a nude woman lounging by acclaimed bluegra...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
"Honest Convergence"- Expressive Mixed Media Figurative Painting 2024
Located in Denver, CO
Jon Wassom’s Honest Convergence (2024) is an evocative mixed media painting on panel, measuring 16 x 16 x 1.5 inches. This original work showcases Wassom’s signature expressive style...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
$1,540 Sale Price
20% Off
17th Century Antique Original Oil Painting on canvas Goddess And Cherub, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This exquisite oil on canvas depicts a mythological scene rendered with great finesse, likely painted during the late 17th century. A reclining nude female figure, partially draped i...
Category
17th Century Rococo Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$9,250 Sale Price
50% Off
"Modernist Nude" Mid Century Bold Colorful Abstract Nude Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the 1950s by Russian, American painter Helen Stein. Mostly known for her abstract figures on canvas, this piece...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Woman Resting with Flowers oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artwork Details:
- Title: Nude Woman Resting with Flowers
- Artist: Josep Munné Graupera (Barcelona, 1933-2016)
- Year: 1978
- Technique: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 25.6 x 31.9 inches (65 x 81 cm)
- Signed: Yes, "J. Munné Jordi 78" in the lower right corner
- Condition: Good, minor wear consistent with age
- Framed: No
- Art Movement: Catalan Costumbrist Realism
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**Description:**
This painting delicately and sensitively portrays a female figure in a relaxed pose, resting on a bed draped...
Category
1970s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,134 Sale Price
36% Off
CAT AND GIRL
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original painting by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic on canvas.
The magic flow reality...
It is sent rolled in a tube, safe and express shipping to the whole world.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
A Muse Berkeley Figurative School by Patricia Gren Hayes 1975
Located in Soquel, CA
A Muse - Figurative Study in Oil on Canvas
A nude man wearing a sailor hat while he looks down at a woman sitting on sheets of red and blue by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes ...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,753 Sale Price
29% Off
Hercules Mourning the Death of his Cupbearer Hylas
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1849-1930)]
Oil on canvas
Signed in red, l.l.
48 x 60 inches, canvas size
54 x 66 inches in gold leaf frame
61 x 74 x 6 inches, framed
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“By his own account, the most ambitious work of Michallon’s career was a thirty-foot canvas depicting Noah’s Ark, which he exhibited in the Salon of 1875, where it went unmentioned by the critics. Preparatory work for this elaborate composition took him frequently to the Jardin des Plantes, where he made painstaking drawings and oil sketches of the animals on view. These studies were enthusiastically remarked upon by visitors to his studio, some of whom counseled him to give up history painting altogether and pursue the less dignified but presumably more lucrative career of animal painter. Following this advice, and profiting from the tremendous vogue in 1880s Europe for all things African...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Don't let the sun blast your shadow- 21st Century Painting of a Nude Boy
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
David van der Linden
'Don't let the sun blast your shadow''
100 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas
framed in a black wooden frame (included in price) 115x115 cm
David van der Linden is a Dutch...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Reflection" – Figurative Oil Painting of a Male Portrait by Dave Seeley
Located in Denver, CO
“Reflection” is a finely rendered oil painting by Dave Seeley, created in 2023. Measuring 16.5 x 13 inches, this striking portrait is painted on canvas mounted to panel and comes hou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Jupiter Antiope Van Dyck Mythological Paint 17/18th Centuty Oil on canvas Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Anthoon van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641) follower
Large canvas depicting ‘The Myth of Jupiter and Antiope’
(Ovid's Meramorphoses, Book VI)
Oil on canvas
116 x 150 cm. - with f...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$17,381 Sale Price
20% Off
Self-portrait 2 Male nude 2009, canvas, acrylic, felt tip pen 140x98 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Self-portrait 2
2009, canvas, acrylic, 140x98 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris U...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Felt Pen
$6,494 Sale Price
20% Off
Guitar
Located in Zofingen, AG
Nude
The beauty of a naked body is simply incredible! When I paint a picture with a naked woman, I have the feeling that I am painting space, the universe. I never cease to admire th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
DRAWING OF A NACKED MAN ON LADDER
Located in Napoli, IT
DRAWING OF A NACKED MAN ON LADDER - - by Gennaro Luciano, 1920, with ebony frame. Cm.65x48
Category
1920s Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Blue Rider Series #30
Located in Bozeman, MT
Daphne Sweet, artist working and living in Missoula, Mt. Using acrylic, oil, clay, and fabric.
Bouncing between classical references and personal allegory, the paintings and found ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 20th century Art Deco Male nude oil painting of Narcissus
By George Frederick Hinchcliff
Located in Harkstead, GB
An incredibly striking study of the male form with the figure set against a colourful background with stylised organic forms. Attractively framed, the painting is ready to be hung an...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pre-Raphaelite Beauty - Victorian art nude oil portrait - British female artist
By Sara Wells Page
Located in London, GB
Painted by Sara Wells Page this is a large stunning half-length Pre-Raphaelite portrait oil painting of a semi clad young woman. It was painted circa 1900 by Page who worked and exhi...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Sailors
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Sailors
n.d.
Signed in red, u.r.
Double-sided painting on panel
30 x 24 inches
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Robert Louis Raymond DUFLOS (1898–1929), "Nude by the Mirror"
Located in Paris, FR
Robert Duflos was an exceptionally precocious painter whose work primarily consisted of highly accomplished pastels and nudes. His artistic production is concentrated within a single...
Category
1920s Art Deco Nude Paintings
Materials
Pastel
The Apparition - Large, Fine 1884 French Oil Painting - MAKE OFFER
Located in New Orleans, LA
A stunningly dramatic and well-rendered oil on canvas painted by French artist Antoine Marie Roucole in 1884. With the ornate antique gilt plaster frame, and with its size, it has t...
Category
1880s Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Free Study - The Pond - 21st Centuy, Contemporary Art, Figurative, Nude
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Free Study - The Pond, 2021
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' ab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,146 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Semi-Nude Male Figure
Located in Astoria, NY
John Knox Dillon (American, 1903-1974), Portrait of a Semi-Nude Male Figure, Oil on Canvas, 1958, signed lower right, signed, dated, and inscribed "Brackman" to verso, giltwood frame...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wildlife of the Southwest, Large Painting by Bill Wiman 1978
By Bill Wiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bill Wiman, American XXth
Title: Wildlife of the Southwest
Year: 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 58 x 58 in. (147.32 x 147.32 cm)
Frame: 59 x 59 inches
Category
1970s Photorealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Susannah (Without the Elders) /// Old Masters British Nude Bath Biblical Story
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Frederick Goodall (English, 1822-1904)
Title: "Susannah (Without the Elders)"
*Monogram signed and dated by Goodall lower left
Year: 1885
Med...
Category
1880s Victorian Nude Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Paint, Canvas
Untitled (Abstract Male Reclining Nude)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Male Reclining Nude)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance:...
Category
1960s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$2,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Impressionist Nudes, Three Figures, Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Nudes, Three Figures, Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on the top right hand corner of the painting
Oil painting on canv...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dionysian. Three Male Figures Dancing Around a Golden Sun. By Marco Silombria
Located in Firenze, IT
Dionysian. Three Male Figures Dancing Around a Golden Sun
Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017)
Acrylic and gold leaf on black paper
Signed and dated '96 at lower edge
Siz...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Illustration Board
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Women
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 24.5 x 19inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French origi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Klaudia frontal nude - Oil Paint by Marco Fariello - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Klaudia frontal nude is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello. It is made on canvas, painted in oil in 2021.
The subject of the work is the representation of a nude of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer 8 - 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, securing a Master of Art degree. He...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Italian Large Figurative Framed Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Woman
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5154 Antique Italian oil painting of a reclining nude woman
Framed
Image size 24x36"
Category
1930s Nude Paintings
Materials
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.