Board Nude Paintings

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...

"The Vanguard Series Nr. VIII: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions", oil on board, unsigned (circa 1950s–70s). A compelling body of work emerging from the forgotten studios...

"The Vanguard Series Nr. VII: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions", oil on board, by STM (circa 1950s–70s). A compelling body of work emerging from the forgotten studios an...

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 ...

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 ...

NUDE IN COLOUR Oil on Canvas Size: 76.5 x 59 cm (including frame) A brilliantly executed, large and characterful mid-century abstract nude figurative portrait composition, executed ...

NUDE ON SOFA Size: 52.5 x 66.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A well-executed mid century modernist nude composition, painted in oil onto board. This nude study in oil features ...

Bill Shields "Nude with Ball" 1990's Acrylic paint on board Site measures 10.5"x8.5 wood frame float mount on linen 15.5"x13" Unsigned came from artist's estate William Stephens Shi...

Rasik Dugashanker Rabal (Indian, 1928 – 1980) Six standing women Acrylic on board Signed ‘RAVAL’ (upper right) 32 x 36 in. (81.5 x 91.5 cm.) This is a modernistic view of six nude I...

This incredibly striking portrait, painted in a fiery palette captures an intimate moment between the artist and sitter who were lovers. Philip Core (1951-1989) Portrait of Adrian Ffooks, 4th/7th regiment Signed and dated 1987 to the reverse Oil on board 30 x 17¾ inches without the frame 35 x 23 inches with the frame Provenance: Gifted as a wedding present to Kit Hesketh-Harvey by his future wife. The artist was a friend of the couple and they had introduced Core to FFooks. Kit Hesketh Harvey co-wrote the screenplay (with James Ivory) for E.M.Forster’s Maurice and he had called upon Ffooks, who was renowned for his horsemanship, to be a stunt double for the equestrian scenes in this iconic film. Philp Core grew up in New Orleans, the son of a well-to-do family. At just seven he won the Vieux Carré Open Artists Competition. He was sent to a military academy, and from 1963 to the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, where he won a number of art and literature prizes. As a schoolboy he self-published a booklet of drawings Palm Fronde Alphabet. An interest in Aubrey Beardsley and fin de siècle artists and writers, led to him spending time in Paris working with Philippe Jullian on his book The Symbolists, before returning to Harvard to complete an honours thesis on Belgian symbolist Fernand Khnopff. He graduated in 1973. Under the pseudonym Féllippé Fecit, he produced a series of erotic drawings for the poet John Glassco for his book Squire Hardman, and in 1968 in the Japanese style for The Temple of Pederasty, a free adaption by Glassco of a work by Japanese expatriate writer Ken Sato. Of this time, George Melly...

NUDE BY LAVENDER Size: 40.5 x 33.5 cm Oil on board A gentle and emotive mid-century vintage oil portrait, executed in oil onto board and dated 1943-1946 on reverse. A standing nude...

NUDE STUDY Size: 73 x 63 cm (including frame) Oil on board A large, richly coloured mid century nude study oil, painted in 1949. There is a palpable sense of ‘ease’ to the nude fig...