20th Century Nude Paintings

Rose Victor (XX) Abstract Seated Nude Woman, Oil on Canvas with Collage Elements, figure in white with one leg up, collaged repeated images of an abstracted figure in hat, signed up...

Archaic dancer. 1933, paper, mixed media, 20x9.5 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his rel...

Mr Millerson with Mrs. 1959. Paper, mixed media, 16x6.5 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his artist...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Neil Gavin Welliver (American, 1929-2005) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1964 Materials: acrylic and charcoal on canvas Dimensions (H, W, D): 94.5"h, 78.25...

The present mid-century work features two taboos in one painting. In 1949, it was verboten to glamorize gay life and even more prohibited to show interracial love. This work by Dan A...

Linda Stein, Artist and Model 362.020 - Signed, Watercolor, Pen, and Ink on Paper, Colorful, Figurative, Nude Painting Linda Stein's Artist and Model series are early paintings sh...

A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Untitled" is a Bay Area Figurative Painting, oil on canvas in a brown and tan palette by American artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Oliveira 64". A Californian whose work is of preeminent importance during the post war period, Oliveira is most often associated with Park, Diebenkorn and the other artists with whom he sketched early in his career. Yet it was not an oversight when Oakland Museum director Paul Mills chose not to include Oliveira in the 1957 exhibition “Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting.” All came to figuration by initiating a sophisticated dialogue with abstraction, yet it is Oliveira, the often characterized ambivalent loner among Bay Area artists whose work is most often compared to Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, or Willem de Kooning with whom he shared walls and space at The Images of Man exhibition held in New York at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959. During the early years, Oliveira’s lone figures often suggested an existential angst similar to that of Giacometti, but there was also a weightlessness and a transcendent aura that envelopes these figures; they appear as elemental, universal and eternal projections of selfless consciousness better understood within the bodiless realm of metaphysics. These qualities would remain in his work throughout his long career, yet he would find other themes to explore — the natural world where the essential nature of birds and animals exist in equal profundity with their human counterparts, the transient world of evanescent perception when memory must reconstruct momentary experience, and later, the ‘site’ paintings and monoprints that suggest the abandoned remnants of a long-lost civilization or tribe uncovered at an archeological dig. Through and through, flesh to bones, and bones to dust Nathan Oliveira has left us with a legacy of art that will surely remain untarnished by time or changing trends. His work exists within a realm rarely achieved by artists striving in a similar mode of expression. Unclouded by ego or wayward sentiment, it is also in the warmth and humble nature...

Pronounced acrylic body art on paper featuring chest and face by American artist Kismine Varner, circa 1990. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper ...

Linda Stein, Artist and Model 362.001 - Signed, Acrylic on Canvas, Colorful, Nude Painting Linda Stein's Artist and Model series are early paintings she made in the 1970s. They depi...

Linda Stein, Artist and Model 362.007 - Signed, Acrylic on Canvas, Colorful, Figurative, Nude Painting Linda Stein's Artist and Model series are early paintings she made in the 1970...

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

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...

An original modern surreal oil painting by American artist Ellen Steinfeld titled, "Puppet with the Green Eyes"

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 ...

Work on wood Black wooden frame 77 x 55 x 2 cm

Vintage American modernist surreal painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1990. Signed. Image size 20L x 24H. Framing is available.

Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was an American illustrator and Ashscan school painter who received acclaim for his innovative a...

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. ...

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...

Edith (Glackens) Dimock (1876 - 1955) Untitled (Female Nude), circa 1915 Oil on canvas 34 1/2 x 28 1/4 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Colle...

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.

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

A Modern realist “trompe l’oeil” egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Catanzaro Koenig depicting a person curled up titled “Prayer Rug #2″. Catherine C. Koenig was born Caterina Catanzaro in 1921 and grew up on the West side of Buffalo, NY. She graduated from Lafayette High School Buffalo in 1939. She exhibited a talent for drawing and painting early on and attended Albright Art School, where she graduated with an Associate's Degree in 1942. Her professional career as an artist began in the 1940s when she started to exhibit her work. From 1946-1956, she taught drawing and painting at the Art Institute of Buffalo. She married Buffalo artist...

André Derain (1880-1954) nude female pencil drawing, circa 1935 Stamped with Atelier Oval “Andre Derain” Stamped on verso with the S. Knaub...

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...

RYSZARD GRODNICKI, Abstract painting, original painting, acrylic colors. Dimensions with frame. We offer another painting by this artist. Born in Gdańsk in 1947. In 1971-76 stud...

Oil on board. Signed lower left and dated 1957. Artist label fixed verso.

Flowers. 1996, oil on canvas, 69x57 cm In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art Academy of Latvian State, painting department, Head of the diploma work "Working in the forest" E. Kalninsh. He participated in the exhibition since 1966. Member of Artists Union of Latvia since 1970. From 1993-2000 member of the Association "B13". He worked as a teacher at the Riga 19th school and in the 17th evening high school (1961-1965), in the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal (1965-1981), worked at the Arts Academy of Latvia since 1981 - in charge of Department of Painting (1993- 1998), professor since 1993. From 1997- 2000 Professor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christian Academy of Latvia. At the end of the 60s, in the 70s painted many figurative compositions of the historical genre. Reborn impression of cubism, painted still lifes and landscapes. Paintings by Janis...

The beauty of curvature. Paper, mixed media 16x12 cm watercolor and pen on paper Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his rel...

Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled t...

A Modern realist “trompe l’oeil” egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Catanzaro Koenig depicting a person curled up titled “Prayer Rug #1″. Catherine C. Koenig was born Caterina Catanzaro in 1921 and grew up on the West side of Buffalo, NY. She graduated from Lafayette High School Buffalo in 1939. She exhibited a talent for drawing and painting early on and attended Albright Art School, where she graduated with an Associate's Degree in 1942. Her professional career as an artist began in the 1940s when she started to exhibit her work. From 1946-1956, she taught drawing and painting at the Art Institute of Buffalo. She married Buffalo artist...

Goddess of Fertility is a vibrant, vintage 1960s original oil painting by artist Edward Marecak (1919-1993). This semi-abstract piece features dynamic, somewhat cubist nude female an...

Watercolor Comes Framed Drydocked boats sitting in a boat yard About the Artist: Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980) In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk from New York City t...

Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was an American illustrator and Ashscan school painter who received acclaim for his innovative a...

Beam recognizes that a successful work of art “must develop its own personality…It must empower, engage or provoke the public’s attention.” One exhibition in particular, titled Owavino(1997-1998) [meaning last minute] held in Illinois—perhaps the pinnacle of media mastery—garnered Beam numerous reviews, attacks and responses, even after the exhibiton had closed, for his work Turkish Medal (1996-1997-2013). The painting combines a comparatively altered version of one of Pulitzer-Prize winning illustrator Bill Mauldin...

Abstract work COMES FRAMED simple wood, app 1.5" deep. Cubism Style Post Modern About the Artist: Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980) In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk fr...

State of Mind Robert Mapplethorpe model Ken Moody watercolor on paper 96x46 (artist collection) Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid...

Born on the 17th September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel and was an accomplished etcher and...

By Gustav Likan 24" x 30" Oil on Canvas

Dramatic oil on canvas surrealist painting by John Abrahamson (American 20th Century) depicting a nude male with the motto Partitus Ero or I wager in Latin. Abrahamson is known for h...

Oil Painting by Igor Talwinski "Nude Study, Blonde Mode Seated" 1907 - 1983. Polish portrait and figure study painter who came to live in Paris after ...

A Modern Take on American Gothic by Grant Wood Cubism Style Post Modern About the Artist: Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980) In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk from New Yo...

"Reclining Nude I" Watercolor Painting 13" x 9" inch (1986) by Zaccaria Zeini Medium: watercolor on paper Signed and dated Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - ...

Linda Stein, Figurations 360.083 - Signed, Acrylic on Canvas, Colorful, Nude Painting Linda Stein's Figurations series are early paintings she made in the 1970s. They show the artis...

Narrative, colorful and surreal fantasy of a room interior. The image incorporates many of the recurring symbols in the artist's work such as hearts fe...

Linda Stein, Figurations 360.078 - Signed, Acrylic on Canvas, Colorful, Nude Painting Linda Stein's Figurations series are early paintings she made in the 1970s. They show the artis...

Leon Kroll was a painter, lithographer, art critic and teacher who was born in 1884 in New York City. Living his professional life in New York City and Chicago, he summered in Rockpo...

This captivating 1982 oil painting titled 'Zeus, Venus, and Hera' is a stunning example of semi-abstract figurative art by Edward Marecak (1919-1993), a prominent Denver modernist ar...

"Look Up" (Schau Aufwärts) is a two-piece work (diptych) of German artist Klaus Heuermann. The artist depicts a female in one work (140 x 100 cm) and a male in the other work (140 x...

Signed and titled to the reverse of the canvas. On canvas.

Lying Nude with Signals 1 (Original Title: Nudo disteso con segnali 1) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017)...

Baes Emile Brussels 1879 – 1953 Paris Belgian Painter Female Nude Signature: Signed bottom right Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 65 x 54 cm Biography: Baes Emile was b...

Unsigned. On canvas.