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Nude Paintings For Sale
Set of Erotic Series, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pen, Ink, Paper, Sunil Das "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Set of Erotic Series - Colour based Drawings II & IV
Sunil Das - Untitled -13.5 x 9.5 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic, Watercolor, Pen & Ink on Handmade Paper
Inclusive of shipment in...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pen
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Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a nude, female figure sits with an blue cloth draped around her bottom. Ramiro places the figure floating in the atmosphere. The figure's back is revealed, curving sensually and naturally, hair pulled up in a bun to accentuate her form.
Signed: Angel Ramiro Sanchez in lower left corner and on verso
Painting Dimensions: 12.6 x 7.5 inches
Framed dimensions: 16.75 x 11.5 inches
Angel Ramiro Sanchez was born in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age six was accepted with full scholarship into the Instituto the Niños Cantores del Zulia, school for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon J. Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and public buildings. In 1993, a study grant from Mgr. Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder the Niños Cantores, enabled him to travel to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1997. At the same time, he was enrolled at The Florence Academy of Art,founded by painter Daniel Graves, where he received a diploma in Painting. Ramiro was appointed senior painting instructor at The Florence Academy of Art in 1997, and is currently Director of the Advanced Painting Program.
Ramiro paints only from life, searching for accuracy beyond physical appearance to reach the psychological state of his subject. He believes the painter must draw his information from "all five senses" to tell the complete human story.
Ramiros work is predominantly represented by th e Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, but also Scriba Gallery, venice, Italy, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Tx.
Ramiros works can be found in numerous private collections in Europe, The United States and South America. Public collections include: The Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy. The Fremantle Foundation for Foreing Artist in Tuscany at Villa Peyron, Florence, Italy and The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. USA. He shares his life and passion for art with his wife, the artist Melissa Franklin-Sanchez.
Education
1993-1997 Florence Academy of Art, directed by Daniel Graves, Florence, Italy.
1993-1997 Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Thesis: Historic and Technical Notes of Academic Realism Today.
1995 Florence, Italy: Michael John Angel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Golden Lady
Located in East Hampton, NY
Golden Lady
Comes framed (white) see image
Neo Cubism
About the Artist:
Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980)
In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk fro...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Figurative Women Models Abstract Painting O/C 11ft x 11ft By Steven
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven is now one of the top emerging artists in the U.S. His works are ground breaking, bold and imbued with unflinching disregard to painting conventions. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Recall, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alla Bartoshchuk's "Recall" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude female figure in the company of laughing blue and purple women, wher...
Category
2010s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Untitled - Contemporary Art, Male, Nude, Figurative Art, Mood, Green, Violet
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled, 2012
acrylic on canvas
59 1/16 H x 39 3/8 W in.
150 H x 100 W cm
The artwork "Untitled" was part of the solo show “Epic”. This exhibition, as the artist confessed, “is abo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Losing Touch, " Oil Painting
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert ( US based) "Losing Touch" is an oil painting that depicts a dark haired feminine form sitting curled up with the patterned background partially concealing her face.
A...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The passengers - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
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Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Model On Black: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
This mixed media on paper is a subtle study of the model, soft and flowing.
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Pop Art reclining nude woman painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful ca. 1970s Pop Art painting of a reclining nude woman based on Tom Wesselmann's 1968 screenprint, Nude with Still Life. Oil on canvas, 30...
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Aura - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
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Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Big Volcano
By Jane Bauman
Located in New York, NY
Signed and titled in pencil, verso
Spray paint on cardstock stencil
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City
Category
1980s Nude Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint
Morning. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Morning. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Nude with a yellow medallion by William GOLIASCH - Oil on canvas 46x81 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Gilded wood frame
85 x 50 x 2 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Overlapping, " Oil Painting
By Ryan Morse
Located in Denver, CO
Ryan Morse's "Overlapping" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the back of a nude female figure eclipsing the body of another nude female fig...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Judith Brenner, Sophie Seated 3, Original Figurative Painting, Nude Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Judith Brenner
Sophie Seated 3
Original Figurative Painting
Mixed Media on Paper
Size: H 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Sophie Seated 3 is a contemporary nude painting by Judith Brenner. This is an original drawing from life on paper using acrylic, pan pastel , ink and watercolour pencil. The idea is to capture the essence of the pose using line and wash...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Nude Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper, Pastel
I miss you. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
Located in Riga, LV
I miss you. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
Act
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
1970's FRENCH POST-IMPRESSIONIST OIL - NUDE LADY SUNBATHING BLUE BACKGROUND
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Sunbather
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on canvas, unframed
measures: 55cm x 33cm
provenance: private collection, France
Radiating colour and warmth from the sun, this beautiful French painting depicts a nude sunbather...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mr Millerson with Mrs. 1959. Paper, mixed media, 16x6.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mr Millerson with Mrs. 1959. Paper, mixed media, 16x6.5 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artist...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
[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
Oil, Canvas
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The Garden of Eden Huge British Surrealist Oil Painting Reclining Nudes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Garden of Eden
by Richard Turner, British 1940-2013
signed and dated verso, 2003
oil painting on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
A stylised surrealist landscape with two reclining nudes, and a seated woman and child. Signed, titled and dated 2003 verso. Painted on this huge size, the work makes a tremendous statement within an interior setting.
Richard Turner's work is mainly figurative painting, within Arcadian landscape settings similar to the compositions in renaissance and mannerist art. Turneramon's first stay in Egypt had a significant effect on his painting style and content. His change from hard edge abstraction to synthetic renaissance is evident in his 5ft x 7ft painting; 'The Resurrection of Tutankhamen', leading to his work being labelled post modernist.
Turner won the J. Andrew Lloyd scholarship for Landscape, enabling him to study at the Royal College of Art in London, from 1963. There, he was tutored by Carol Weight...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lobsterman
Located in East Hampton, NY
The Lobsterman
NOT framed
Neo Cubism
About the Artist:
Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980)
In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk from New York City to paint seascapes, catch fi...
Category
1970s Analytic Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dance. 2021. Mixed media on cardboard, 70x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dance. 2021. Mixed media on cardboard, 70x100 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
White Dress - figurative female semi nude beauty / abstract realism
Located in Burlingame, CA
American artist David Shevlino's female figure in a white dress beautifully links traditional representation with abstraction. Through Shevlino’s sensuous application of paint, his u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Midnight - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
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Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nude Woman, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Yellow, Brown, Contemporary Artist"In Stock"
By Ashit Sarkar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Ashit Sarkar - Untitled - 20 x 15 inches (unframed)
Acrylic on Canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : Women have a special place in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Robert Phillipp "Corner of My Studio" Original Painting c.1968
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Phillipp "Corner of My Studio" Original Painting c.1968
Original oil on canvas. Dimensions 12" x 16". The frame measures 16" x 20".
Signed low...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Amoorea - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
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Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Yes. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Yes. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
Act
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
96. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Act 96. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 61x43 cm
on the backside of the artwork lithography
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
"Siren" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Siren" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude red-headed female figure, with freckles, closing her eyes as...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Who Am I
Located in East Hampton, NY
Cubism Style
Post Modern
American Modern
Acrylic on Canvas
Comes UNFRAMED
About the Artist:
Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980)
In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk from New Y...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
White Queen, mixed media portrait of nude woman with feather headpiece
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, Crayon, Glitter, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Pencil...
Under the Skin - Nude Female Figures, Caryatids, Oil Painting in Brown Colors
Located in New York, NY
This figurative surrealist oil painting on canvas measures 52 x 64-inch. The primary colors are earth tones, with accents of red and blue. The bodies of four female nudes, sitting in...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Women in Sari Over A Cityscape, Yellow Green Blue , Acrylic Oil Canvas, In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shipra Bhattacharya - Untitled - 24 x 48 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic & Oil on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in a roll form.
Style : Shipra, is a leading contemporary mid career a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Body Art
Located in Houston, TX
Acrylic body art featuring upper torso, arms and face by American artist Kismine Varner, circa 1990. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displaye...
Category
1990s Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"(Waiting for) the Onset of Colors, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Hollis Dunlap's (US based) "(Waiting for) the Onset of Colors" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman in profile with long dark hair ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Illuminated
By John McLeod
Located in Denver, CO
Nude figure with candlelight
Category
2010s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figures on the Beach with Sculpture, Contemporary Surreal Figural Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dark storm clouds loom over a surreal, desolate beach landscape, which is populated by several male figures in different states of being, in this contemplative symbolic contemporary painting by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957), circa 2013-2014. In the left foreground we see part of a bearded man's face, as if witnessing this scene with the viewer. Next a male figure in bright red bathing suit faces the ocean, his back to the viewer, while a more distant nude male at three quarter view points down at something in the sand. Finally, on the right appears the bearded man as a classical sculpture bust on a pedestal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Dynamic Center, colorful, goddess with abstract elements, red, blue, yellow
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
This piece is very much about the energy of the body and breath. We are just rediscovering the power of the breath to increase energy and gen...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Mixed Media
LARGE FRENCH MODERNIST SIGNED OIL PAINTING - NUDE FIGURE SEATED FROM BEHIND
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, late 20th century, signed with initials.
Title: Seated Nude from behind.
Medium: oil painting with some mixed media...
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Model - Charcoal on Paper Grey Color
Located in Sofia, BG
"Model" by the impressionist Maestro Alexandr Reznichenko.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: charcoal on paper
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Unique, signed
The painti...
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Exhale, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Brian O'Neill's (US based) "Exhale" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude male figure stooped over and keeling on the ground, with his back exposed and bowing his...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, "Young woman at the well"
Located in Berlin, DE
Painting, 19th century, oil on canvas, "Young woman at the well"
Signed, B. Kern.
Dimensions with frame 61cm x 75cm
Category
19th Century Romantic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Nudes, Modern Painting by Inukai 1938
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kyohei Inukai (aka Earle Goodenow), American (1913–1985)
Title: Three Nudes
Year: 1938
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 14.5 x 10 inches
Frame Size: 18 x 14 inches
Category
1930s Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Attachment , Original Painting
By Robin Okun
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting represents an ever present theme in life; attachment. This red figure is vividly attached to the red background, much the way I feel attached and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nu Debout by HUGUES PISSARRO - Nude Painting, Human Figure, Oil on Canvas, Art
Located in London, GB
Nu Debout by HUGUES PISSARRO (b. 1935)
Oil on canvas
92 x 65 cm (36 ¼ x 25 ⅝ inches)
Signed lower right, Hugues Pissarro.
Dated on the reverse, Monte-Carlo 1963 and inscribed, Hugu...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
The dunes - Julien Calot, 21st Century art, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
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Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Respite
By John McLeod
Located in Denver, CO
Nude reclining figure in candlelight
Category
2010s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
'Reclining Nude', Art Institute of Chicago, Hans Bellmer, Expressionism
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Grise" and painted circa 1965.
A substantial Expressionist-style figural watercolor of a young woman reclining on a divan.
Grise first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago...
Category
1960s Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Flowers. 1996, oil on canvas, 69x57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1996, oil on canvas, 69x57 cm
In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art Academy of Latvian State, painting department, Head of the diploma work "Working in the forest" E. Kalninsh.
He participated in the exhibition since 1966.
Member of Artists Union of Latvia since 1970. From 1993-2000 member of the Association "B13".
He worked as a teacher at the Riga 19th school and in the 17th evening high school (1961-1965), in the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal (1965-1981), worked at the Arts Academy of Latvia since 1981 - in charge of Department of Painting (1993- 1998), professor since 1993. From 1997- 2000 Professor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christian Academy of Latvia.
At the end of the 60s, in the 70s painted many figurative compositions of the historical genre. Reborn impression of cubism, painted still lifes and landscapes.
Paintings by Janis...
Category
1990s Abstract Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
She loved to fly at night-abstract nude girl with a bird, made in turquoise, pink
By Galin R
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Abstract painting made in pink, turquoise, beige, grey, brown color.
About the Artist: Art Decorator who are working in contemporary colors for interiors.
"I love to draw from an e...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Trash Venus
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Trash Venus" is an original oil painting by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece ships in the pictured frame and measures 26"h x 22"w.
Lauren was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1983. She re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The volcano - Julien Calot, 21st Century art, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
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Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Wind, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Recently, Sumner has been exploring the use of text in her paintings, adding poetry to accompany the message of the artwork. "This piece is about the loss we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French or...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Charcoal
Man Feeling Uncertain - Contemporary Art, Yellow, Red, Solitude, Figurative Art
Located in Berlin, DE
Man Feeling Uncertain, 2020
acrylic on canvas
27 9/16 H x 27 9/16 W in.
70 H x 70 W cm
The new series of paintings signed by Alexandru Rădvan was born during the total isolation of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Eros and Psyche
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
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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