Board Nude Paintings

This charming pastel painting on paper was designed by Pio Santini (1908-1986) and named "nude with lace". The signature, Santini, can be found in the bottom left corner of the artwo...

Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972) Untitled (Nude), 20th century Oil on board 11 1/8 x 14 in. Framed: 17 x 20 in. Signed lower right: A Smith Arthur Sm...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a watercolor and gouache beach scene three young men bathing...

QUIET REPOSE Size: 29 x 60.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A brilliantly executed and emotive mid-century modernist figurative composition that presents a reclining nude figure ...

An incredibly striking and sensuous image of the flame like figure of Phoenix, painted on a large scale. A painting with enormous impact and style. William Crosbie (1915-1999) Phoe...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

REPOSE BY RED Size: 49 x 41 cm (including frame) Oil on board A brilliantly executed modernist nude study, painted in oil onto board and dated 1974. This painting depicts a seated ...

Odalisque and Guitar is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on board. Signed on the back Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 188...

Alexander Redein (American, 1912 - 1990) At Home, 1975 Oil on board 12 x 15 3/4 in. Framed: 17 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. Signed lower right: Redein Inscribed verso: At Home 1975 Alex Redein was born on January 21, 1912 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was a prominent member of the New York art community for many years. He studied at Yale School of Fine Art, The Art Students League, and in Mexico City. Along with Remo Farrugio, Byron Browne, Herbert and Henry Kallem, Joseph DeMartini, Michael Lekakis...

Playboy Magazine ran this joke cartoon illustration in color on page 43 for the October 1960 edition. Signed lower right. The work is executed on a heavy Whatman Illustration board....

Blonde. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 83x90 cm This depiction of blonde young nude woman on dark green background and turquoise color surface shows artist Laimdots Murnieks...

"Nude with Cat" by R. Walker is a charming portrait of a woman and cat posed by a window.

Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm This depiction of young nude woman with red hair on green-pink-blue background shows the artist as a master of forms and color field areas. Laimdots Murnieks...

ANGELA Size: 69 x 58 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A brilliantly executed mid-century modernist style figurative nude composition, painted in oil onto board. The focal point of...

SEATED NUDE FIGURE Oil on Canvas Size: 73.5 x 68.5 cm (including frame) A large and striking mid-century modernist style nude figurative painting, executed in oil onto board. A fem...

Seated Nude is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Torelli in 1950s. Oil on cardboard. 64x48 cm with frame. Handsigned in the lower right margin.

Mid Century figurative painting of a pensive sitting nude figure with moody, mid-century color palette in the background. Attributed to Elmer S. Albritton, unsigned (American, 1922-...

Woman Lying Down on White Cloth is an artwork realized by an Italian Artist in mid-20th Century. Oil on cardboard 24x34 cm. Good conditions.

Dreamer. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 83x90 cm This depiction of young nude woman lying down on green blue surface shows artist Laimdots Murnieks as a master of forms and color field are...

Sunil Das - Making Love Series I - 9 x 7 inches (unframed size) Pen and Ink on Paper Pasted on Board Shipment without frame . Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist...

Lillian Delevoryas Untitled (Nude & Interior), 1969 Oil on board 19 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. Framed: 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. Signed and dated lower righ...

Mid Century Modern Mother and Baby Playing Figurative - Nude Wonderful small scale ink and acrylic paint of a mother and baby by Dorothea Stevenson Casady (American, 1910 - 2006). Signed lower left corner. Presented in gilt-toned and velvet filet mid-century frame. Image size: 6"H x 8.25"W Frame: 9.5"H x 11.25"W x 2.25"D (velvet liner has age toning) Casady was a painter and muralist and served as Chairman, Oklahoma City University Art Department, 1939-1943; an Art instructor, Classen High School; Education: University of Oklahoma, B.F.A., 1931; M.F.A., Norman, OK; studied with Emil Bisttram, Taos School of Art and Nan Sheets; Foundation des Etats Unis, Paris, Fance, 1935-1936; New York School of Industrial Arts; studied fresco and egg tempera under Professor Leugi Arcangeti, Florence, Italy, 1937; Oklahoma City University; Julian Academy Paris, France, 1936 Memberships: Oklahoma State Artists Association; Kappa Pi, art fraternity; Delta Delta Delta...

Sunil Das - Making Love Series II - 9 x 7 inches (unframed size) Pen and Ink on Paper Pasted on Board Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil D...

Sunil Das - 9 x 14 inches (unframed size) Rare Collage Series, Pen and Ink Plastic Feather Acrylic Foil on paper pasted on board Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil D...

Abstract Modernist oil painting by Zoute dated 1941. Oil on board. Unframed. Zoute (Born-Leon Salter, 1903-1976) was self-taught and well exhibited during his lifetime. He painted from 1940-1954 (he stopped painting at this later date due to his wife's illness and death and never painted again) A self-taught artist, he was part of the great modern wave. He exhibited with many of the most notable artists of the day such as Picasso, Braque, Klee and others at the invitation only State University of Iowa International Show 1946-1947. He had numerous one man shows at NYC galleries, Mortimer Levitt / Joseph Heller...

Lily Harmon (1912 - 1998) Woman with Rose Ink and gouache on board 23 x 19 inches Lily Harmon, was an artist who worked in portraiture, assemblage and book illustration, and whose ...

Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972) Untitled (Circus Figures), 20th century Oil on board 16 x 19 3/4 in. Framed: 20 x 24 in. Signed lower left: A Smith ...

Prakash Karmakar - Untitled - 29 x 19 inches ( unframed size ) Pastel on Board Inclusive of shipment in roll form. This Painting of a Blatantly Nude and Somewhat Sensous Woman wra...