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French Impressionist Set of Two Nude Male Figures Showering Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Figures by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8.25 inches wide conditio...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Color Pencil

Nude, Acrylic on Paper by Modern Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prokash Karmakar – Nude – 30 x 22 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Paper, 2006 Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash ...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Christian Zeimert "Gentilly", 1972
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by French artist Christian Zeimert (b.1934 – 2020). Signed in lower right corner and titled on reverse "Gentilly". Zeimert's painted slow and meticulously. It took him se...
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1970s Conceptual Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Girl in stockings
Located in Edinburgh, GB
"You can teach a girl femininity for a long time, but stockings will do it instantly."
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2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mythological I (Faun) - Contemporary Art, Blue, Orange, Nude, Flower, Myth
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Mythological I (Faun), 2016 Acrylic marker on canvas sheet (signed and dated front left corner) 23 5/8 H x 17 3/4 W in. 60 H x 45 W cm (reproduced at page 23, in the catalogue 'Mythi...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Repos 7", Nude Woman Laying with Leaves and Bent Knee
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This piece is not framed. Raluca Vulcan is a French-Romanian artist who likes to express the life and sensitivity of the human body, mostly through nudes and portraits.
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Achaemenid women Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art painting nude women
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic painting on paper Hand-signed lower right Unique work THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI " Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to w...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Double Sided 20th Century Oil - Sunbathing
Located in Corsham, GB
An impressionistic study of a young lady sunbathing on a summer lawn. The sitter looks relaxed in her position, with hat and sandals off, happily led in the grass. To the reverse of the painting is a second artwork by the same hand, depicting a nude female resting...
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Oil

Woman with a glass.2019. Oil on canvas, 45x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman with a glass.2019. Oil on canvas, 45x45 cm Normunds Braslinsh (1962) Born 1962 in Riga, Latvia 1980–1986 Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department 1973–1980 Janis Rozentāls Riga Secondary School of Art Has participated in photo exhibitions since 2002 A professional photographer for art editions since 1989 Has participated in exhibitions since 1980 Pedagogical Experience Since 2004 Professor at the Latvian Academy of Art 1998 Associate Professor at the Latvian Academy of Art Since 1997 a teacher at the Master Studio of Figurative Painting, Latvian Academy of Art Since 1988 a teacher at the Drawing Department, Latvian Academy of Art Solo exhibitions 2008 Normunds Brasliņš...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fish In Love - Nudes Women Painting by Giampaolo Talani
Located in Carmel, CA
Giampaolo Talani (1955-2018) The "mad scientist" of the art world, Talani created art out of virtually everything he touched. After completing his training at the Florence Academy of...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Board

Framed Contemporary Acrylic - Seated Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
Presented in a contemporary wood frame. Unsigned. On canvas board.
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

"BBL's and Imported Furs" Painting (FRAMED) 31" x 44" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"BBL's and Imported Furs" Painting (FRAMED) 31" x 44" inch by Isaac Pelayo Medium: Oil, oil stick, and aerosol on wood Comes in antique frame (wood & gold leaf) Size unframed: 23" ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Nude Paintings

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Wood, Oil, Spray Paint

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...
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1970s American Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Movement
Located in Wien, 9
Walter Strobl opens a new chapter in his explorations of the neverending tension between stillness and movement. Strobl´s vibrant nudes capture women in movement: they are there and gone again, letting the pictoral space pulsate with both the presence and absence of the outlines of their bodies. He paints women with a keen interest in the lived experience of the body, avoiding clichees in his depictions. The viewer is excluded from this inner sensation, but it is precisely the privacy of the model`s slumber that permits us to revel in our own proprioception. His cityscapes and still lives tell their...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Small Nude / - Abstract Figurativity -
Located in Berlin, DE
Gustl Stark (1917 Mainz - 2009 ibid.), Small Nude, 1946. Oil on canvas, marouflaged, 54 x 25 cm (picture), 30 x 60 cm (frame), signed "Stark" top left, verso twice signed "Gustav Stark", inscribed by hand as "Small Nude" and dated by hand "1946". With label of the exhibition of the Bundeshaus Bonn from 1956. - Rubbed area in the lower third of the body, at the same level a retouch in the ochre background. I provisional frame. - Abstract Figurativity - About the artwork During the war, Gustl Stark suffered a particularly severe blow for an artist: he lost his right arm. Nevertheless, he continued to devote himself to art, and the painting, created in 1946, immediately after the end of the Nazi reign of terror, testifies to the dawn of a new era. At the same time, the work is a rare example of the artist's early figurative work, as Stark turned entirely to abstract painting as early as 1950. And even this painting is by no means purely figurative; rather, it already illustrates Stark's turn toward abstraction. We see a female nude, but one that remains faceless. This can be read symbolically and in relation to the immediate past epoch, which, in the face of horrors, silences and blinds - literally renders faceless. In this sense, the figure is positioned to 'look back'. But she does not look. While this meaning may resonate and make the painting an important work of the immediate postwar period, Gustl Stark is primarily concerned with something else here, namely art itself. The absence of the face leads to the body becoming something flat. Due to the de-individualization, we do not see a concrete person with his individual features, but a body surface. And indeed, the body is constructed through an extremely planar design. Even the contour lines that form the corporeality have a planar rather than a linear character, especially where they merge into shadow zones of almost the same color. And the surfaces themselves are not modeled. The incarnate parts do not show any plastic gradations; the corporeality is completely withdrawn into the plane, which is also true for the hair. In addition, there is no uniform background against which the figure could appear; rather, the area next to the hair is kept bluish, creating a succession of earth-toned colored areas, which again binds the figure to the surface. Last but not least, the flatness is also forced by the painting technique. Gustl Stark paints directly, a la prima, onto the coarse canvas, whereby the structure of the painting support remains visible in the picture, and in places - around the hair, for example - the canvas itself can be seen. This structural all-over lends the picture a certain flatness. Gustl Stark thus uses the very motif that stands for the corporeality of art par excellence - the female nude - to transform the spatiality of the traditional picture into a flatness characteristic of modern art. And yet, a strong impression of corporeality is created, without being produced by a painterly modeling of the body. The oscillation between flatness and corporeality creates the intense tension of this groundbreaking painting. In Gustl Stark's oeuvre, as a consequence of the abstraction we see here, the figurative is completely stripped away in a further step, which is also a loss when looking at this early key work. About the artist Gustl Stark was the son of a woodcarver and, after an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, attended the State School of Arts and Crafts in Mainz from 1936 to 1937. Although he was severely wounded in the war and lost his right arm, he studied at the Würzburg School of Painting and Drawing from 1943-1944 and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1944-1948. He won a state scholarship at the state art competition in Bad Ischl. Numerous study trips to Sylt, Paris, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Holland and Belgium followed. Gustl Stark worked in Mainz and was the first artist there to focus on abstract painting. His work quickly gained international recognition, including the Salon Réaliés Nouvelles in Paris. From 1963-1970 he taught at the State University Institute for Art and Work Education in Mainz and from 1970-1975 at the Johannes Gutenberg University. Gustl Stark became particularly famous for his color embossed prints, for which he invented his own technique. Gustl Stark received numerous awards for his work. He received the Art Prize for Painting of the City of Mainz in 1962, the State Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1984, and the Gutenberg Bust of the City of Mainz in 1987. Selected Bibliography Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts, Vierter Band, Leipzig 1958, S. 344. Hans H...
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1940s Realist Nude Paintings

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Canvas

WTF
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

WTF
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Bernadette Kelly (b.1933) - 20th Century Oil, Changing Room I
Located in Corsham, GB
A sensitive oil study depicting ladies in the changing room. Unsigned. On board.
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Oil

Lovers Series No. 15
By George North Morris
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting from the estate of George North Morris from the artist's "Lovers" series. This piece comes in its original wood frame presentation. George North Morris - painter, writer, teacher Born May 13, 1915 in East Liberty, PA Died Oct. 1, 1996 in Hudson, NY Studio locations over the years: varied from Hyannis (MA), Providence (RI), Oglethorp (GA), Montpelier (VT), Yonkers & Westchester Co. (NY) to the later years in Germantown (NY). Subject matter consisted mainly of seascapes and landscapes but in the 60's and 70's he experienced his abstract era. The later years, in fact most of his life was spent in New England and N.Y. state. Most of his more valuable paintings where along the Hudson River and Westchester County. His most frequent methods were oils and water colors, and in the 1940' his artistic expression was through the use of clay. Most of his pottery was made from local Cape Cod (Barnstable) clay which he and his family dug, washed and prepared. He wrote a part of the foreward, called "The Tradition", for a book "A Century and a Half of American Art 1825-1975". Published in 1975 by the "National Academy of Design". He was also an art critic and reporter for the Worcester Telegram and the Provincetown New Beacon. He was a person that felt time was by far better spent talking about and hearing ideas and thoughts. The following are some of his. George Morris's life was that of art and art critic as well as educator. "It was the two summers, 1938 and 1939" recalled Morris, "that I really learned how to paint". Though much of his work showed a strong Edward Hopper influence, at the same time it took many roads. It was, over the years, much too varied to categorize. He started with collage, moved to abstraction, and then to a period during the late 1960s and '70s when he completed what he called his "Lovers Series" - erotic paintings filled with large orchestrated flat color - that show him moving away from abstraction. Upon becoming bored with the concept of abstract painting, he looked for new challenges in pastels, acrylics and water colors, painting once again what he called "the world as it is recognizable by others". George firmly believed that all the best artists are good hucksters, too. Solo exhibitions as a painter were as follows: Columbia-Greene Community College - 1985 Barrett House - 1985 Smith Gallery - 1980, '81, '82 Swansborough Gallery, Wellfleet - 1983 Hopper House, Nyack, NY - 1981 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers Shepherd Gallery...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

End of October/Beginning of November
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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Torso
Located in Wien, 9
Alex Amann’s oeuvre contains a variety of genres, which are, however, well-coordinated through their design. He devotes himself to still life as well as to landscape painting and fig...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude 6, Original painting on paper, Nude, People, Figure
Located in Deddington, GB
This original drawing by artist Ellen Williams is one in a series of elegant minimal nude studies, using a singular line to interpret the curves of a body. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: C...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

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...
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1970s Analytic Cubist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Rosie Copeland, Child’s Pose (after The Wave), Original Nude Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Rosie Copeland Child’s Pose (after The Wave) Original Nude Painting Oil on Board Sold Unframed Image size: H38 x W76 cm Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of ho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Nude Paintings

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Oil, Board

Series 7 No.9D, Black and White Contemporary Nude Painting, Monochrome Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Nude drawing from Series 7 No.9D is an original drawing by David Jones. David Jones, artist, is pleased to present a series of nude drawings in the style of Matisse. David uses a tec...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Nude
Located in Edinburgh, GB
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1970s Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Singularity
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Singularity. Natalia Pustovit. Fhenomenal artwork concept Singularity is the point at which a mathematical function tends to infinity. A woman is that point, which is the conduc...
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2010s Conceptual Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman lying
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
In this work I present a woman lying down as a study of the female body, the figure is cut on a brownish background, with a very marked texture intentionally based on glazes to highl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil, Wood

Pencil Sketch of Girl Nude Posing - Early 20th Century by Bruno Beran
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Bruno was born in 1888 in Bruenn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the youngest son of a well-to-do family of textile manufacturers. Bruno was a delicate child, but...
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1930s Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

‘Young Woman And Vase’ by Steven H. Rehfeld - Large Figurative Female Nude Model
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Young Woman and Vase", 2015 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Steven is now on...
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2010s Outsider Art Nude Paintings

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Oil, Stretcher Bars, Canvas

Shadow, figurative portrait of nude woman on panel, mixed media
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...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Fabric, Paper, Crayon, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Pencil, Inkjet

20th Century Oil - The Griffin's Embrace
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking and highly unusual 20th Century scene in oil showing a classical style woman, swathed in red fabric in the embrace of a majestic griffin. The painting is unsigned and pres...
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil

Nude Woman, Watercolor Painting, Green & Blue by Master Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Kartick Chandra Pyne - Untitled - 24 x 18 inches (unframed size) Watercolor on thick imported paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : After graduating from the Government ...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Adjusting the Radar, powerful image of trying to get it right, bold color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists, meditation and yoga references. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sen...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

"ELENA"
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
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1980s Pop Art Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern British, nude oil painting by Ewart Johns, original, blue oil on board
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Ewart Johns (British, 1923 – 2013) Figures In Touch, 1992 Oil on board Signed with initials and dated ‘EJ 92’ (lower left) and further signed, titled and dated (on the reverse) 4.3/4...
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20th Century Abstract Nude Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Sun" Contemporary Colorful Pink and Orange Nude Female Figures Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary colorful abstract painting by Houston artist Emmanuel Araujo. The work features a pair of nude crouching women set against an orange sun and pink background. Signed, tit...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Sleep" Contemporary Colorful Blue and Red Reclining Nude Female Figure Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary colorful abstract painting by Houston artist Emmanuel Araujo. The work features a blue toned reclining female nude figure laying on a black and white chevron rug set on ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

PAREJA DE AMANTES 2
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
We can see a couple of lovers, a naked man and woman, kissing about to have sex.
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2010s Conceptual Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Rare Modernist Oil Painting Line Drawing Nude Man Louis Stettner
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed and Dated Modern Line Drawing Oil Painting of Nude Man. Louis Stettner (November 7, 1922 – October 13, 2016) was an American photographer of the 20th century whose work inclu...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self-portrait 5 Male nude 2009, canvas, acrylic, felt tip pen 140x98 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Self-portrait 5 2009, canvas, acrylic, 140x98 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Felt Pen

Double Namaste, let us touch and unite, colorful yoga reference
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Listen" Watercolor Painting by Orielle Anaïs - Female Nudes Art
Located in Carmel, CA
"Listen" 24x36" watercolor painting. The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity. About the artist: Orielle Anaïs [Santa Barbara, CA] is a multimedia artist specializin...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

In work/Four figures. Double-sided, cardboard, tempera, 56x47 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In work/Four figures. Double-sided, cardboard, tempera, 56x47 cm Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family. Vladimir Glushenkov...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Cardboard, Tempera

Figure with Serpent
Located in Columbia, MO
Figure with Serpent c. 1990s Ink and gouache on paper 29 x 22 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil

Japanese Nude, Modern Watercolor Painting by Mikhail Turovsky
By Mikhail Turovsky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Japanese No. 2 Mikhail Turovsky, Russian (1933) Date: 1990 Oil Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 33 x 40 ...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Paintings

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Watercolor

"Mischievous", Nude Woman Laying on Her Arms with Crossed Legs and Flowers
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This piece is not framed. Raluca Vulcan is a French-Romanian artist who likes to express the life and sensitivity of the human body, mostly through nudes and portraits.
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Nemesis
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams often references historical painting themes and styles in order to throw into relief western tropes in figurative art. Here as part of the artist's series Myths and Lies,...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Nude Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Judith Brenner, Solfrid Dancing, Original Figurative Painting, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Judith Brenner Solfrid Dancing Original Figurative Painting Mixed Media on Paper Size: H 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

Silver Eve, mixed media portrait of woman with flowers, neutral colors
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...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Silver

Selfportrait in the Beginning of History - 21st Century, Male, Blue, Brown
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Self-portrait at the Beginning of History, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 88 31/32 H x 34 29/64 in. 226 H x 87.5 W cm Rădvan's multifaceted self-portraits are also a reference to Narcissus...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Self-portrait in the Beginning of Time - Contemporary, Female, Violet, Yellow
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Self-portrait at the Beginning of Time, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 88 31/32 H x 34 29/64 in. 226 H x 87.5 W cm Rădvan's multifaceted self-portraits are also a reference to Narcissus, a ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Drehnung I / Rotation I
Located in Wien, 9
Walter Strobl opens a new chapter in his explorations of the neverending tension between stillness and movement. Strobl´s vibrant nudes capture women in movement: they are there and gone again, letting the pictoral space pulsate with both the presence and absence of the outlines of their bodies. He paints women with a keen interest in the lived experience of the body, avoiding clichees in his depictions. The viewer is excluded from this inner sensation, but it is precisely the privacy of the model`s slumber that permits us to revel in our own proprioception. His cityscapes and still lives tell their...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"By the Window, " Leon Kroll, oil, figurative art, nude, modernism
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Leon Kroll was a painter, lithographer, art critic and teacher who was born in 1884 in New York City. Living his professional life in New York City and Chicago, he summered in Rockpo...
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20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude Woman, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Yellow, Brown by Indian Artist "In Stock"
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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

'Envious' - Vibrant Green and Blue Figurative Female Nude Oil Painting on Wood
Located in Carmel, CA
Kristy Chettle (American, born 1968) "Envious" 2023 Oil Paint, Wood, Wire The artist signed the back of the painting. "Envious" by Kristy Chettle is a striking contemporary figurati...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Wire

Nude Oil On Panel "The Pose" By Jacques Van Rooten 20th
Located in Gavere, BE
Jacques van Rooten, is an artist born in Belgium. He was a painter of landscapes and portraits in a realistic style. Regularly exhibited in Belgium. He also made beautiful paintings ...
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1950s Art Deco Nude Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Above the dam. 1990. Cardboard, tempera. 80x100cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009) (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...
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1990s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Tempera, Cardboard

"Nude" Colourist Modern Figurative Paintings
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan 24" x 30" Oil on Canvas
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Great old age" nude portrait china ink 50x65cm on paper oak frame 2008
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
nude portrait "Great old age" china ink 50x65cm on paper dignity and fragility, pathetic and admirable delivered in oak and glass frame
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Early 2000s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Ink

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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