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Nude Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Old Masters
Nude in the Mirror original oil on canvas
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude in the Mirror" is inspired by Magritte's "The Lovers" painted in 1928 in his Surrealist period. Original, unique painting. 70x60cm / 27.5x23.5in Part of the "Nude in Interi...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Reclining Female Nude, ' by Frederick Lloveras Herrera, Oil on Canvas Painting
By Frederic Lloveras Herrera
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this framed oil painting by Frederick Herrera, a reclining female nude in a stretching pose is featured. The face is not detailed and there is white drapery over the mid-section...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil

"Skidmore Thesis 3", nude figures sitting with legs out, black & brown drips
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is from my undergrad senior thesis at Skidmore College in 2013. This was an important painting for me because it was the very first bridge between my print making and ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Figure Walking in a Dry Landscape - 21st Century, Male, Nude, Nature, Summer
Located in Berlin, DE
Figure Walking in a Dry Landscape, 2022 acrylic on canvas 27 9/16 H x 27 9/16 W in. 70 H x 70 W cm The torrid sun, the infinite blue of the sea, the warmth of summer days, and ordi...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Lean Back, " Abstract Nude Figure Drawing
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract nude figure drawing by Kelly Rossetti is made with charcoal and pastel on paper. It features a light grey, white, and vibrant pink accent,...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

South - Contemporary, Yellow, Blue, Green, Nude, Water, Summer, Trees
Located in Berlin, DE
South, 2020-2022 acrylic on canvas 27 9/16 H x 27 9/16 W in. 70 H x 70 W cm The torrid sun, the infinite blue of the sea, the warmth of summer days, and ordinary people caught in mo...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Kitties - Contemporary Figurative Ecoline Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

A Peaceful Place - Contemporary Art, Couple, Palm Tree, Blue, Sea, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
A Peaceful Place, 2022 acrylic on canvas 19 11/16 H x 19 11/16 W in. 50 H x 50 W cm The torrid sun, the infinite blue of the sea, the warmth of summer days, and ordinary people caug...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Klaudia frontal nude - Oil Paint by Marco Fariello - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Klaudia frontal nude is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello. It is made on canvas, painted in oil in 2021. The subject of the work is the representation of a nude of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Naked Young Woman - Drawing by Marco Fariello - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Naked young woman is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello realized in 2021. It is an academic drawing of a female nude. It is painted with oil on canvas. The subject ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Charcoal

Occasionally There Would Be One - Intimate Painting of a Couple, Original Oil
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

"I Am Who You Are" Mixed Media Sculptural Painting, Oil on Wood, Nude Figurative
Located in New York, NY
Celebrated artist Robin Tewes was born in Queens New York in 1950. She received her BFA from Hunter College in 1978 and her MST from Pace University in 2012. She is the Recipient of many notable and prestigious awards, including the 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Painting Award, the 2007 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Award, and the 2004 and 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts-Painting. Selected solo exhibitions include Wright Gallery, Adam Baumgold Gallery, Headbones Gallery, Klapper Hall Gallery, Bill Maynes Gallery, John Weber Gallery. Some group exhibitions include: at P.S. 1, P.S. 122 Painting Association, The Drawing Center, Aldridge Museum, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Hunterdon Museum. Tewes is interested in how much a single narrative moment can tell us about ourselves. Became a founding member of P.S122 Painting Association and now on the Board of Directors. She has been included recently in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Her work has been recognized and written about in NY Times, Village...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Wood, Oil, Paint

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938) In the Locker Room
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938) In the Locker Room n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 60 x 36 inches $8,000 + $750 framing This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude of Klaudia from One Side - Oil Paint by Marco Fariello - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Klaudia from one side is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello. It is made on canvas, painted in oil in 2021. The subject of the work is the representation of a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man in Towel Looking to the Side
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man in Towel Looking to the Side n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm) $3,000 + $125...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Juice me up! - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Juice me up! is a fine oil on canvas realized in 2018 by Anastasia Kurakina. Signed and dated in ink on higher right margin. This original painting explores the common Kurakina's...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Impossible Fgures - Contemporary Figurative Ink Ecoline Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

A Woman - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
A woman is a contemporary artwork, realized in 2018 by the emerging artist Anastasia Kurakina. Mixed colored watercolor and china ink drawing on panel. Good conditions. Hand signe...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Three Women - Contemporary Art, Blue, Nude, Female, Summer, Sand, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Three Women, 2022 acrylic on canvas 19 11/16 H x 19 11/16 W in. 50 H x 50 W cm The torrid sun, the infinite blue of the sea, the warmth of summer days, and ordinary people caught i...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Saint Tropez - Oil on canvas, Figurative realist painting, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
ARTIST: MAREK OKRASSA. Born in 1975, he studied painting in the studio of professor M. Swieszewski and drawing in the studio of Maria Targonska. Okrassa was twice awarded a grant from the Ministry of Culture and Arts and in 1999 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with a special award. He was awarded the Silver Spur...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mythological I (Faun) - Contemporary Art, Blue, Orange, Nude, Flower, Myth
Located in Berlin, 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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Acrylic, Canvas

"Skies Remembered" Oil painting on Copper Female Nude blue oxidized patina
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Richard Hawk calls his works of oil on copper a “co-creation with nature”. Hawk turned to the melding of copper oxidation and traditional oil painting in 2011. His works on canvas, p...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Copper

Women & Water - 21st Century, Nude, Red, Blue, Contemporary Painting, Sea
Located in Berlin, DE
Women & Water, 2022 acrylic on canvas 19 11/16 H x 19 11/16 W in. 50 H x 50 W cm The torrid sun, the infinite blue of the sea, the warmth of summer days, and ordinary people caught...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Blue Chroma, Figurative nude. Oil on canvas. Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Blue Chroma, by Jose Ricardo Contreras González From the Movies series Oil on canvas 30 cm. H x 25 W cm. Unframed José Ricardo Cont...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Their Whole Private Selves - Two Nude Bodies Entwined, Original Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

"Skidmore Thesis 1", nude figures mother & child, emotional
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is from my undergrad senior thesis at Skidmore College in 2013. This was an important painting for me because it was the very first bridge between my print making and ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

La-La Tempesta - Modern Interpretation of Giorgione's Renaissance Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Lamenting the lack of clear queer imagery in Renaissance painting I decided to paint a Gay version of "La Tempesta" by Giorgione. The small creature in the for...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Panel, Oil

And Then On To You - Intimate Painting, Two Male Nudes Entangled in One Another
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographic stills, repurposing them...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Teresa - Drawing by Marco Fariello - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Teresa is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello realized in 2020. It is an academic drawing of a female nude from the back. It is made wit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Charcoal

"RELEASE" - Oil painting on Copper Female Nude abstract blue oxidized patina
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Richard Hawk calls his works of oil on copper a “co-creation with nature”. Hawk turned to the melding of copper oxidation and traditional oil painting in 2011. His works on canvas, p...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Copper

"Ascent" Oil painting on Copper Female Nude Abstract blue oxidized patina
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Richard Hawk calls his works of oil on copper a “co-creation with nature”. Hawk turned to the melding of copper oxidation and traditional oil painting in 2011. His works on canvas, p...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Copper

"Arabesque Unplugged" Oil painting on Copper Female Nude blue oxidized patina
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Richard Hawk calls his works of oil on copper a “co-creation with nature”. Hawk turned to the melding of copper oxidation and traditional oil painting in 2011. His works on canvas, p...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Copper

Heartbreaking - Drawing by Marco Fariello - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Heartbreaking is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello realized in 2021. It is an academic drawing of a female nude. It is realized with ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Charcoal

And Then Comes Wonder - Intimate Painting of a Couple Kissing
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Panel, Oil

'The Bathers' Original Figurative Young Nude Men Ashcan School Movement O/B
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 Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Board, Oil

Nude
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Three Bathers by the Water
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Three Bathers by the Water Signed in red, recto Oil on canvas 96.25 x 67 inches (244.5 x 170.2 cm) $15,000 + $900 framing This work is offered by Cla...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Masonite, Oil

Splash - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2015
Located in Roma, IT
Splash is an amusing and ironic original oil painting realized in 2015 by Anastasia Kurakina . Signed and dated in red China ink on the lower left margin. In good conditions. This...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

I Might Grow to Be Kinder - Intimate Portrayal of a Couple Embracing
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Without Heaviness - Close-Up Painting of Two Men Kissing, Original Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographic stills, repurposing them into images of intimacy. Rick Sindt Without Heaviness oil on panel 12h x 9w x 1.50d in 30.48h x 22.86w x 3.81d cm RIS040 “This body of work has been crystalizing in my mind for about five years,” says Sindt, “It is the product of reflecting on how the places I learned the most about myself, and my desires, are considered something that sullies a person, something taboo.” Focused on the experiences of gay men, this body of oil paintings depicts moments that range from tender touches to more sexually explicit acts. “It was important to me that I only represent what I know,” explains Sindt, “I identify as a man, and I am attracted to others who identify as men. I don’t believe it is my place to speak on behalf of other members of the queer community whose experiences I am unfamiliar with.” “In creating this work, I spoke with men who told me about how they hid magazines when they were a kid, took out P.O. Boxes in their small hometowns to protect their privacy, and learned how to cover their tracks on the internet. These secretive acts become necessary when the need to understand yourself is great, but your world is bereft of representation." Rick Sindt b. 1990, Hastings, MN, EDUCATION 2013 North Park University, Chicago, IL - BFA Magna Cum Laude SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Two Countries, Rogue Philanthropy, Chicago, IL 2013 Tides, Erosion or Catch, Pull, Recover; The-One-Right-Now, North Park University; Chicago, IL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Are We Not of Interest to Each Other, Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL Reinventing Ourselves From Another Point-of-View, Contemporary Gallery at Zhou B. Arts Center, Chicago, IL Collective: Process, Beans and Bagels, Chicago, IL 2015 Collective: for(a)ging, Hammond Art Center; Hammond, IN How We Make It, The Arts of Life, Chicago, IL Collective: One, Albany Park...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Tug of War
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is David Shevlino's magnetic 'Tug of War', oil on canvas, 43 x 65 inches, painted in 2022, created with a minimal range of colors, and featuring the ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Two Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board Image size: 40.5 H in. x 55.5 in. W Mounted on acid-free board: 41 H x 56 in. W Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. ____________ Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil, Oil Pastel

Shield Me - Nude Figures, Intimate Portrayal of a Couple, Original Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Did I Steal You Away? - Intimate Painting of a Couple Embracing, Original Oil
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographic stills, repurposing them into images of intimacy. Rick Sindt Did I Steal You Away? oil on panel 18h x 24w x 1.50d in 45.72h x 60.96w x 3.81d cm RIS036 “This body of work has been crystalizing in my mind for about five years,” says Sindt, “It is the product of reflecting on how the places I learned the most about myself, and my desires, are considered something that sullies a person, something taboo.” Focused on the experiences of gay men, this body of oil paintings depicts moments that range from tender touches to more sexually explicit...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Metamorphosis
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi Remember Me, 2018 Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas 120 x 60 cm The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery in Greece. ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Dialogue V - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Beach View, People, Nude
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey "Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Female Nude - Contemporary Figurative 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

Skin Had Hope - Two Nude Torsos, Entwined, Original Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographic stills, repurposing them...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Dancers Waiting To Go On, Male Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid and dynamic painting of two male figures preparing to go on stage by Marc Foster Grant (American, b. 1947). Titled "Dancers Waiting To Go On" lower left, and signed and dated "...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Cardboard

Les Grande Dames - abstracted figurative, acrylic, ink, rice paper on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this magnificent sensual abstract painting by Andrew Lui, grand gestural brushstrokes create nude human figures who appear to emerge from a riot of colour. In 'The Tall Ladies', t...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Rice Paper

Pendragone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Linen, acrylic paint, linocut.
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Linocut, Linen

Nude 3
Located in Spetses, GR
Nude, female figure. Mixed media on paper, Plexiglas frame (137x77cm), ready to hang. Certificate of authenticity will be provided by the gallery.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Ink

'Midcentury Science of Material Traces, ' George Oswalt, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 32" x 28" oil on canvas painting, 'Midcentury Science of Material Traces,' by artist George Oswalt features a redheaded nude woman standing near a ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude in French Interior
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Mosaic, If
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork unframed 60 x 50 x 3 cm What are people's criteria for judging beauty? A beautiful face? A different existence? A feeling of pleasure? Or just follow what others say and make yourself feel the same way? People say the Winged Victory is very beautiful. Admirers come to the Louvre from all over the world. A lot of them just to take a picture to prove they saw it and say to friends, look, this is Winged Victory, how beautiful! Is it really that beautiful in her mind ? not necessarily. If it has head, do you still think it is beautiful? I am afraid many people will have a negative opinion. What is it that blurs the eyes of human beings and makes people's judgments of beauty vary widely? The painting uses knife...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nocturne
Located in Denver, CO
Inspired by scenes from iconic American landscapes, ranging from arid deserts to lush forests, Jacobsen delves into humanity’s connection to nature and the technology that often mediates that experience. Embedded in the works is the recognition of nature’s immense power in contrast to its quickening fragility. Increasingly, under threat from the continuing rollback of regulations and protections in favor of exploitation for commercial gain, the double-edged sword of technology and the legacy of Westward expansion continue into the present day. For Jacobsen, American parks act as a foil to European colonization and resource extraction. While the creation of National Parks may be one of America’s greatest innovations, in preserving these beautiful and once wild places, they are in practice reduced to roadside attractions. Jacobsen states, “By elevating these picturesque landscapes we also diminish our own place in them. No longer are we participants in the divine dance but instead menacing spectators observing from stadium...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Nude In Interior
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Nature of Reality", contemplative fine art nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"The Nature of Reality", contemplative fine art nude.
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel

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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