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Sphinx. 2020. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sphinx. 2020. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974) Born in 1974 in Riga. Professional education: 1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School; 1995 - 2001- LMA D...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern Mixed Media Nude by Byron Randall
Located in Pasadena, CA
This nude figure drawing is made with a mix of pastels and gouache, signed and dated 1963. Born in Tacoma, WA, on Oct. 23, 1918, Randall lived in Salem, OR, during the 1930s. He crea...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

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Oil, Gouache

The fall
Located in Vienna, AT
Was born in 1993 in the city of Marganets, Ukraine. Artist Gorbachenko Multiple participants of group and solo exhibitions and Art Fair Vilnius. The artist's works are in private col...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

Le Soleil. 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
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil

‘The Bathers’ by Bernard Krigstein - Colorful Post Impressionist Figurative
Located in Carmel, CA
Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was an American illustrator and Ashscan school painter who received acclaim for his innovative a...
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Late 20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Torso ( Relection ) - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you. Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Torso 05 - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you. Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Torso With Golden Lips - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you. Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Europa. 2010. Oil on canvas, 120x120 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Europa. 2010. Oil on canvas, 120x120 cm Dagnia Cherevichnik (1974) Born in 1974 in Riga. Professional education: 1986-1993 – J. Rozentals Riga Art Secondary School; 1995 - 2001- LMA...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Antiquity News" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Antiquity News" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov ATT: SHIPS ROLLED IN TUBE ABOUT: Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented Ukrainian painter and graphic known for h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Large Masculine Nude by Barminski
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting by Californian artist Barminski features a humanoid form set against a textured background adorned with black and red polka dots. The silhouette is segmented into earth...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled 37 (Gun Sequence)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on wood painting by contemporary American artist Bruce Adams. This work is currently being featured in the exhibition "The Dreamer Who Dreams" and is designed to rai...
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2010s Photorealist Nude Paintings

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Wood, Oil

The old sinner and the female figure. Paper, mixed media, 13x15.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The old sinner and the female figure. Paper, mixed media, 13x15.5 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurm...
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1930s Modern Nude Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

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

Silence. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 97x67 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 expressive sketching to neat lines.
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Felt Pen

Untitled, Figurative Art , man contemporary Mixed Media 24" x 36" by Michele
Located in Carmel, CA
Michele's paintings are about the timeline of human life, and its effect on art. For the last 15 years, Michele has been deconstructing the subject matter. In as much as she enjoy ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

In These Shoes
Located in London, GB
In These Shoes A super sexy oil on linen provocative BDSM painting of a sexy woman wearing Louboutin heels. Martin Allen is a London based artist. Marti...
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2010s Photorealist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Out of sight 1 2006, canvas, mixed media, 180x140 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Out of sight 1 2006, canvas, mixed media, 180x140 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, social...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Susan Paine - Contemporary Oil, Reclining Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On wove.
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Female Body Art
Located in Houston, TX
Pronounced acrylic body art on paper featuring chest and face by American artist Kismine Varner, circa 1990. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper ...
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1990s Nude Paintings

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Acrylic

Nude Women, Bathing, Watercolor on paper, Green, Yellow by K. C. Pyne "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Kartick Chandra Pyne - Untitled - 22.5 x 30 inches (unframed size) Watercolor on thick imported paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : After graduating from the Governmen...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Enza
Located in MADRID, ES
Impresionist woman figure
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2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, 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

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

Variation On A Theme By Roy Lichtenstein 2
Located in Buffalo, NY
Richard Huntington (b. 1936) is an american painter, printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emeritus at The Buffalo News and has written for High Performance magazine, ARTnews, and Art Ne...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

Bubbly. 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
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil

Puppet With the Green Eyes Contemporary Surrealist Painting Ellen Steinfeld
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern surreal oil painting by American artist Ellen Steinfeld titled, "Puppet with the Green Eyes"
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1980s Surrealist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude in the Window, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman Title: Nude in the Window Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 24 in. x 24 in. (60.96 cm x 60.96 cm) Frame: 31 x 31 inches
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1970s Realist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Tattoo me 4 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 4 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm Juris Utāns (1959-2022) was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socia...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Cardboard

Nocturne
Located in New York, NY
Original piece by Richard Taddei. Showing at The Queer Show Part II.
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil

Precarious, Nude dark colors female nude figure on top of tilting pillows
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early work by the artist depicting a Nude posing atop a totem. ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking ...
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1980s American Modern Nude Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm Colorful bright artwork with two girls Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sitting naked
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Black wooden frame 77 x 55 x 2 cm
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1960s Nude Paintings

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Oil

Valentine Love (Number 10 White), Figurative Art, Valentines Gift, Classical Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Valentine Love (number 10 white) R’ depicts silhouette of a Valentine. As snipped from the pure white background, Agent X creates the illusion of a cut-out to reveal a Baroque, flora...
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21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Nude Paintings

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Paper, Giclée

'Envious' by Kristy Chettle - Green and Blue Figurative Female Nude 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

Modern Figurative Painting, "Dance Like Nobody's Watching"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original figurative oil painting on canvas by Stephanie Clair. It is framed as pictured. Its dimensions are 31"x43". A certificate of authenticity will follow...
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2010s Modern Nude Paintings

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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

Blues
Located in Dallas, TX
Austin Surrealist Artist
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

ROBERT BOUILLE (1926-2021) LARGE SURREALIST OIL PORTRAIT MUSCULAR NUDE MODEL
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Robert Bouille (French 1926-2021) This artist of Var origin studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the sculpture section befor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

At night. Paper, mixed media, 14.5x8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At night. Paper, mixed media, 14.5x8 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his...
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1930s Modern Nude Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

'Pondering' by Chris Ferrigno - Figurative Female Nude - Pencil on Paper
Located in Carmel, CA
Chris Ferrigno's 'Pondering,' a masterful expressionist pencil drawing from the 1970s, captures a contemplative female figure, rendered with exquisite attention to detail and emotion...
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1970s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Sweet Energy, colorful red swirling abstract mystical mixed media
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...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Tattoo me 3 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 3 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 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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Mixed Media, Cardboard

Tattoo me 1 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 1 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 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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Mixed Media, Cardboard

Tattoo me 2 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 2 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 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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Mixed Media, Cardboard

Mixed Media Contemporary 'Self Portrait from my Heart' Sculptured Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Gloria Heilman-C, contemporary woman artist. She is a well known Beverly Hills, California Icon of the woman's art movement. Her work consists of many extreme elements and images including bronze sculptures which depict iconographic rendering of the female body. Self-portraits done in an expressionist style. Many of her works feature the same imagery as seen in her sculptures. She has had her "Women loving Women" art exhibitions in California, New York and Internationally. She is collected and sells much of her work to a jet set celebrity crowd and the New York Andy Warhol Factory crowd. Though references to pornography and blatant self-promotion are combined in the work of Lynda Benglis, Jeff Koons, Andres Serrano, Richard Hawkins...
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Wood, Paint, Mixed Media

Relaxation. Nude. Canvas, cardboard, oil, 60x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Relaxation. Nude. Canvas, cardboard, oil, 60x100 cm Juris Germanis (1941) The artist has always had a tendency to catch the most significant features w...
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Early 2000s Realist Nude Paintings

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Cardboard, Canvas, Oil

Sebastian
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Felix Campean's artwork presents a scene of a human body emerging with astonishing anatomical precision, capturing every detail of musculature and skin with hyper-realistic fidelity....
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Linen, 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...
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2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Vintage American Modernist Surreal Erotic Composition Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist surreal painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1990. Signed. Image size 20L x 24H. Framing is available.
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1990s Surrealist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Fauvist Nude Women Landscape Original Signed Painting Abraham Pariente
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist nude women in a fauvist landscape painting by Abraham Pariente. Oil on canvas, circa 1980. Signed lower right. Displayed in a modernist frame. Image size, 30"L x 22"H.
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1980s Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Champagne Glasses, Oil Painting Portrait by Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Remo Farruggio, Italian/American (1904 - 1981) Title: Champagne Glasses Year: 1954 Medium: Oil on Masonite, Signed l.r. Size: 26 in. x 19 in. ...
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1950s American Modern Nude Paintings

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Oil

Venus. 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
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil

Queen of Hearts female nude large red heart big valentine love erotic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on canvas on heavy stretcher framing recommended but not necessary
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Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Dance. 2021. Mixed media on cardboard, 70x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dance. 2021. Mixed media on cardboard, 70x100 cm
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Cardboard

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...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Charcoal, Oil

Dance. 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
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil

Mirror, mirror on the wall. 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
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil

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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