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Style: Post-War
Man Reaching Down: Tondo
Man Reaching Down: Tondo

Man Reaching Down: Tondo

By Michael Leonard

Located in London, GB

Alkyd-oil on Masonite, signed and dated (middle left), 61cm (diam.), (83cm diam. framed). (This work was kept by the artist for his personal collection. It remained in his collection...

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1980s Post-War Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Against the Glass
Against the Glass

Against the Glass

By Michael Leonard

Located in London, GB

Alkyd-oil on Masonite board, 102cm x 83cm, (124cm x 104cm framed). The painting comes directly from the artist. Michael Leonard is most probably most famous for his portrait of HM ...

Category

Early 2000s Post-War Nude Paintings

Materials

Alkyd, Masonite

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Nathan Oliveira

Located in Palm Desert, CA

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...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Resting Figure
Resting Figure

Resting Figure

Located in London, GB

Ink and wash 16.5cm × 29cm (34cm × 46cm framed) Basil Blackshaw was the foremost Northern Irish painter of his generation. He studied at the Belfast College of Art and he is best kn...

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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Vanitas (unfinished)
Vanitas (unfinished)

Vanitas (unfinished)

By Michael Leonard

Located in London, GB

Alkyd-oil on board, 81cm diam., (100cm diam framed). Although most famous for his portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth in the National Portrait Gallery, London, from the late 1970s up un...

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Early 2000s Post-War Nude Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

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