Tempera Nude Paintings

Moyo,80x100,2020

Tempera on board, 87cm x 60cm (framed 106cm x 78cm). Stuart Maxwell Armfield (1916-2000) was renowned for his use of the traditional egg tempera technique, a skilled process that us...

Relaxation, 40x40cm

Jack Hooper No Head 6/1962 Tempera and pencil on paper 5.75"x6" framed vintage carved wood 10.5"x1"x13.5" Signed and dated in pencil lower right Minor wear consistent with age and history Jack Hooper (Jack Meredith Hooper or Jack M. Hooper) (August 26, 1928 - January 24, 2014) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, printmaker and art educator. Hooper was a major figure on the Southern California art scene, belonging to that generation of Los Angeles painters who matured during the late 1950’s and the 1960’s, painters such as John Altoon, Sam Amato, Robert Irwin, Lee Mullican, William Brice...

The painting comes with the richly carved gilded wood frame (watercolors tempera on paper, 17.7 x 24.4 inch; with frame 28.7 x 33 inch). Reclined in a relaxed position aimed to emphasize the muscular tension, the figure stands out from a warm ochre and brownish nuances landscape, blending with the colour of the environment. The attributes (a club and the Nemean lion’s skin, of which the man touches the tail) and the physical size let him being identified in the demi-god Hercules from Thebes, depicted in a moment of rest during the Twelve Labours. The only details distracting from the apparent tranquillity is the head-alert and with a gloomy look-and the club-well sustained and ready to be used. The body of the hero takes inspiration from the canons of the tradition of the Farnese Hercules, based on a strong rendering of the physical anatomy, in which also the feet-wide feet, well curved, with big toes and evident metatarsus-are giving the idea of strength and stability. The pose itself has ancient echoes recalling the relief of the Athens Archaeological Museum passing through the customs of the river allegories and by the Michelangelesque's intensity in the Medici Chapels. A direct confrontation is with the small marble of the 18th century Hercules resting, bequest of the Viscount Robert Fitzwilliam and now held in the homonym museum in Cambridge1, of wich the painting must be a study from live. The dissimilarity between our work and the sculpture is in the background, painter’s idea, that outdistance the Neoclassicism of the figure and look at the Romanticism lesson, filtered by John Constable and, most of all, by the “painter of light...

This large free-standing screen was completed circa 1907 and was exhibited at the prestigious Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris - a special section of the Louvre dedicated to decorative arts - in 1914. Having spent his formative years in the company of Impressionist masters such as his father Camille Pissarro, Monet, Cézanne and Renoir, Georges Manzana Pissarro (known widely as 'Manzana') began his career painting in an Impressionist style. However, following the rise of the Orientalism movement in fin-de-siècle Paris, Manzana began to expand his artistic explorations into the field of decorative objects and furniture. During this time he began to experiment with the use of gold and silver paint in his works. This rich and complex composition depicts female figures inspired by the intoxicating story collection 'One Thousand and One Nights'. The work positively exudes the atmosphere of fin-de-siècle Paris, and clearly demonstrates the influence of Gauguin's Tahiti paintings, making this a unique work and cultural object. In terms of investment opportunity, Manzana Pissarro currently has an auction record €100,000 (approx. £90,000) and this unique work would have a wide appeal amongst decorative arts collectors as well as art deco lovers. Artwork details: Les Mille et une Nuits...

Painting "Torso II" by Christopher Winter, 1995 in Tempera on wood behind glass. In multifaceted blue tones, a blurred male torso reveals itself against a dark background. Signed and...

L'extase is an original monotype and tempera on paper. Hand-signed on the lower right. Very good conditions, except for some foxings on the upper corner. Emile Deschler (France, 191...

L'Extase is an original monotype and tempera on paper. Hand-signed on the lower right. Very good conditions. Emile Deschler (France, 1910 - 1991) was a French painter. In 1930, he w...

Michael Bergt (b.1956). Study for Rocking the Boat, 1999. Colored pencil and tempera on toned paper, 14 x 18 inches; 22 x 26 inches presented in a white ...

[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ] In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...

[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ] In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...