Symbolist Nude Paintings

This expressive early 20th-century German oil painting depicts a female nude lost in reverie. Sprawled atop silken waters, she’s inert amid the transience of nature. Gazing towards ...

WILLIAM SHACKLETON, NEAC (1872-1933) Embrace of the Wave Signed and dated ‘09 Oil on board 37.5 by 27 cm., 14 ¾ by 10 ¾ in. (frame size 51.5 by 4...

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (French, 1859 – 1938) Odalisques in Slumber Signed ‘G M Rochegrosse’ (lower left) Oil on board 7.1/2 x 19.1/2 in. (19 x 27 cm.) Provenance: Marambat-Malafosse Atelier Rochegrosse, Toulouse Georges Antoine Rochegrosse was born at Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. His themes are generally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale and in an emotional naturalistic style, with a distinct revelling in horrible subjects and details. He made his Paris Salon début in 1882 with Vitellis traîné dans les rues de Rome par la populace. He followed this the year afterwards with Andromaque, which won that year's prestigious Prix du Salon. There followed La Jacquerie, Le mort de Babylone, The death of the Emperor Geta, and Barbarian ambassadors at the Court of Justinian, all of which exemplify his strong and spirited but sensational and often brutal painting...

A stunning oil on board by British symbolist painter George Owen Wynne Apperley depicting a beautiful nude woman on horseback as the horse gallops through the waves of the sea with the sun setting behind them. Signature: Signed lower left & verso Dimensions: Framed: 17"x20" Unframed: 11.5"x14.5" Provenance: Private French collection Remnants of original exhibition number lower left corner Born 17 June 1884, in Ventnor (Isle of Wight); died 1960, in Tangier. Apperley was born into a military and puritanical family, and had to fight family opposition to his artistic calling. In 1917, he went to live in Granada, Spain. Until then, he had exhibited at the London Royal Academy, followed by the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. On his arrival in Spain in 1917, he was awarded The Fine Arts Circle of Granada's First Prize for The Rose. In 1918, King Alfonso X...

A stunning, large, dark and mysterious Symbolist painting, dating from circa 1900-1920. It depicts an elegant youthful warrior, dressed in just a loincloth and sandals, in a tropical...

"Awakening" by Alfred Muller-Holstein (German, 1888-1961) signed verso oil painting on canvas, framed framed size: 44 x 56 inches Stunning 1920's German Symbolist oil painting on canvas, by the well listed and highly respected painter, Alfred Muller-Holstein (1888-1961). The painting was previously in a private art collection in Germany. Painted on this enormous scale, the work captures this young naked...

A wonderful oil on canvas, circa 1930 by Ker Xavier Roussel depicting a Bacchanale dance. Signed lower right. Framed dimensions are 19.5 high by 24.5 wide. Ker-Xavier Roussel met Édouard Vuillard at the Lycée Condorcet, which they both attended. Together they visited Eugène Ulysse Napoléon Maillard's studio, where Roussel became acquainted with Charles Cottet, going on to study at the Académie Julian under Bouguereau and Jules Lefebvre. There, he became interested in the Synthetism promoted by Sérusier, following Sérusier's heeding of the line Gauguin had adopted in Pont-Aven. He joined the Nabis group. He and his friends form a link between the Impressionists - he knew Cézanne, Degas, Renoir and Monet - and the Fauves and Cubists. In his earliest paintings, Roussel adopted a dark palette for Realist still-lifes. Later, his work bore the influence of Gauguin, Sérusier, the Nabis and Cézanne, in Intimist scenes painted in flat tints not yet clearly delineated. Their dull, saturated tones are reminiscent of Cézanne. In about 1900 he started painting mythological scenes full of nymphs and fauns and set in his home region of Île-de-France. After a bicycle trip in Provence with Maurice Denis, during which he met Cézanne, he lightened his palette, much taken by the cloudless skies below which he would now set the mythological and idyllic compositions which link him to Poussin and Corot. This wondrous, unreal world found its way into large-scale works, including the stage curtain of the Champs-Élysées theatre in 1913, a large Pax Nutrix for the Palais des Nations in Geneva and Dance for the Palais de Chaillot in 1937. He is best remembered for: Silenius' Triumph, Polyphemus, Diana, The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus. The nymphs and fauns of a mythology quite his own appear in clearings and woods from the outskirts of Paris, but the sun they rejoice in is Mediterranean. To capture the vibration of bright colours under a permanent sun, he later turned to pastels. He was more a Symbolist than a Nabi and signed himself K.-X. Roussel. He also produced lithographs. He took part in exhibitions from 1891 with the Groupe des Vingt at le Barc de Bouteville's gallery in Brussels. Then he exhibited in Revue Blanche Painters ( Les Peintres de la revue blanche) in Paris; with the Nabis at Café Volponi in Paris; before World War I with Free Aesthetics in Brussels; from 1901 at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne; in the 1930s in Revue Blanche Painters ( Les Peintres de la Revue blanche) hosted in Paris by designer Bolette Natanson, the daughter of the Revue Blanche's owner. He took part in The Masters of Contemporary Art ( Les Maîtres de l'art contemporain) at the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris, and at the 1938 Venice Biennale and 1939 New York World Fair. He featured posthumously in Toulouse-Lautrec and the Nabis ( Toulouse-Lautrec et les Nabis) at Bern Kunsthalle; From the Revue Blanche ( Autour de la revue blanche) in the Galerie Maeght, Paris, and in Tokyo and Brussels. He had one-man shows in Paris before his death in 1944. Retrospectives were mounted in the 1960s in London and Bremen. Museum and Gallery Holdings: Geneva (Petit Palais): Haystacks on the Seaside Paris (BNF): Training the Dog; Landscapes (engraving); Nymph and Faun (c. 1895, etching) Paris (Louvre): Poject for a Screen (drawing) Paris (MNAM-CCI): The Road (c. 1905); The Cyclops (1908); Venus and Cupid on the Seafront (1908); The Abduction of Leucippus' Daughters (1911); Pastorale (1920); Diana at Rest (1923); Portrait of Vuillard (1934) Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): The Gate (pastel); Woman in Profile with Green Hat; In Bed; Félix Valloton...

JEAN-PIERRE CEYTAIRE "THE FOUR GRACES" OIL ON PANEL, DIMENSIONAL FINGURES FRANCE, C.1980S 87 X 75 INCHES Jean-Pierre Ceytaire Born 1946 After a childhood on the hill Montmartre, Jean-Pierre Ceytaire is a student of Condorcet High School from 1962 to 1965 and continued at the Ecole Danhier, from 1966 to 1968, studies that allow him to earn a degree in physiotherapy, a profession he exercises for fifteen years. Jean-Pierre Ceytaire discovered painting during his military service. In 1986, he gave up his job as a physiotherapist, to further exploit his talent as an artist. Quickly, he directed his art on religious themes and manages to create a personal style, allowing him to hold several exhibitions. He has held personal exhibitions since 1973 and group exhibitions since 1983. These have taken place mainly in France, but also in other countries, including Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Russia and the United States. Exhibitions: Jean-Pierre Carlier Gallery, Le Touquet, 1984, 1986, 1988. Galerie Magny-Godmother, Lyon, July 1989, 1991, 1992 (The Arcanels of Eros). Satyra Gallery, Kronberg im Taunus, 1989, 1993. Red flesh, Gallery The tears of Eros, Paris, 1995. Allaman Castle (Switzerland), 1996. Lost Paradise, Coprim Foundation, Paris, 1972. Museum of Eroticism, Paris, 1998 (Purple and devotion), summer 2009 (This naughty look). Humus Gallery, Lausanne, 1999. Muse exasperates me, Art Gallery Comparison, Paris, November 2001 - January 2024. Good and valets, Galerie Racine, Barbizon, 2001, and Brussels, 2002. Rosarum Philosophorum, Vascoeuil Castle, 2035. River Gallery, Bratislava, 2011. Collective exhibitions Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais Paris, from 1984 to 1986. Biennial of Caen, 1985. Paris, from Lutèce to the Grande Arche, town hall of the 9th arrondissement of Paris, 1991. Opera Gallery, Singapore, 1994. Mirage Gallery, Tokyo, 1994. Autumn fair of small format, Jean-Pierre Ceytaire guest of honor, Sannois, October 2009. Annliz Bonin, Jean-Pierre Ceytaire, Christian Peter, Concorde Art...

19th century Painting on Fabric of Putti Cherubs by Jeanne Jacquemin Boyer 1863-1938 A rare early work by the French Symbolist painter Jeanne Jacquemin born Marie-Jeanne Boyer Absolu...

Georges Rochegrosse (French, 1859 – 1938) Sémiramis, The Queen of Assyria Signed ‘G Rochegrosse’ (lower right) Oil on panel 11.3/4 x 9in. (30 x 23cm.) (unframed) Georges Rochegrosse...

Lucien Levy-Dhurmer "Baigneuses sous la treille', circa 1900 Oil on canvas 24.1/8 x 19.3/4in. (61 x 50cm.) Provenance: Ader 1st February 1967, lot 123 Lucien Levy-Dhurmer was a Jewish French symbolist...

Stunning original oil painting on board, by the popular Belgian painter, Antoine Serneels (b.1909). The painting is signed to the lower right corner. Painted with a haunting beauty...