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Nude Prints For Sale
Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Original Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good con...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Girl
By Reg Butler
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Girl’
By Reginald Butler
Medium - Lithograph
Signed - Yes
Edition - AP
Size - 650mm x 490mm
Date - 1968
Colour of print may not be accurate when viewed on a monitor.
Reginald Cot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Guo Wei, Tireur de Pistolet No. 4
By Guo Wei
Located in New York, NY
Guo Wei, Ami No. 4
Tireur de Pistolet No. 4, 2009
Silkscreen
Edition of 200
35 x 40.5 in. (88.9 x 102.9 cm.)
Guo Wei (Chinese, b.1960) was born in Chengdu, Ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Femme Debout, Nude Surrealist Etching by Frantisek Kupka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Femme Debout by Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871–1957)
Date: circa 1912
Etching on Arches, signed in the plate and stamp signed
Image Size: 15.5 x 9.75 inches
Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x ...
Category
1910s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Matisse, Figure Study, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 46-47, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Explorator
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Explorator', engraving, 1734, edition unknown, scarce. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the matrix, lower left. A fine impression, on handmade antique, l...
Category
1730s Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
Woman With Horse - Lithograph by Enzo Assenza - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman With Horse is an artwork realized by Enzo Assenza.
Print in lithograph technique.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner.
...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled Plate 7 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 7 from Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching and aquatint on Japon paper.
Hand-signed and hand-numbered in pencil on the lower margin. Edition of 85 prints.
Perfect con...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Musik und Danz (Music and Dance), after Eduard Veith, German antique engraving
By Eduard Veith
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Musik und Danz'
(Music and Dance)
German wood-engraving, circa 1895.
Central vertical fold as issued.
Eduard Veith was an Austrian portrait painter and stage designer. Many o...
Category
1890s Symbolist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
L'Ete Exalte 1981 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Guillaume Corneille
Summer 1981
L'Ete Exalte
Print, Signed Lithograph on wove paper
25.5 x 20 " inches
Signed in pencil and dated and marked AP 20/25 ( Artist Proof )
As a co-fo...
Category
1980s Abstract Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Secret Heart, Modern Chromogenic Print and Acrylic on Canvas by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) - Secret Heart, Year: 2002, Medium: Chromogenic Print and Acrylic on Canvas mounted to board, signed and dated in marker middle left, and sig...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Digital
Italian Surrealist Aquatint Etching Enrico Baj Pop Art Nude Mod Cherubs Angels
By Enrico Baj
Located in Surfside, FL
Enrico Baj (1924-2003) Italian, limited edition print.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil from limited edition of 100
Aquatint etching
Image size: cm 39.5 x 29.5, sheet cm 53 x 39
...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
From "Valentina" to "O" - Vintage Offset Print after Guido Crepax - 1976
By Guido Crepax
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print, from "Valentina" to "O", in a vintage poster realized in 1976 after Guido Crepax., in occasion of his exhibition at Galleria Rondanini, Rome.
Very Good condit...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
Portrait Imaginare 1981 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Guillaume Corneille
Portrait Imaginare 1981
Print, Signed Lithograph on wove paper
25.5 x 19.5 " inches
Signed in pencil and dated and marked 200/200
As a co-founder of the famed ...
Category
1980s Abstract Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Woman with Arrow
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Woman with Arrow" 1661 is an etching on paper After Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669, plate engraved By French renown engraver Charles Armand Durand, 1831-1905. The...
Category
17th Century Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Book of Prints -- Poor Man's Bible
Located in Troy, NY
While living and working in Soho, NYC, Japanese artist Kawakami produced these masterful etchings. These were obtained by a fellow artist of the Abstract New York School of Painting,...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Dreaming Nude and Blue Bird - Original handsigned lithograph
By Corneille
Located in Paris, IDF
Corneille
Dreaming Nude and Blue Bird, 1998
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered EA / 20
On vellum 52 x 66 cm (c. 21 x 26 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1990s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alfons Mucha - Original Lithograph - Femmes Art Nouveau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: Decorative Documents
Author: Alfons Mucha.
Publisher: Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 13 Rue Lafayette. Emile Levy publisher. Published ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SPELLBOUND Signed Lithograph, Reclining Nude Woman, Golden Sunset, Erotic Art
By Frank Licsko
Located in Union City, NJ
SPELLBOUND is an original hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid f...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Covid
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the Artist:
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp.
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
The erotic scene is an original Héliogravure on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Limited edition of in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Cat...
Category
1910s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Two Native American Girls
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "two Native American Girls" c. 1990 is a color offset lithograph by noted artists Popo and Ruby Lee, b.1940. It is Hand signed and numbered 501/750 in pencil by the arti...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'Amour de l'Art - Woodcut by Constant Le Breton - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
L'Amour de l'Art is an artwork realized by Constant Le Breton (1895 - 1985) in 1930s.
Woodcut print.
Good condition.
Constant Le Breton (1895 - 1985) devoted to painting his entir...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Nude - 8 - Original Lithograph by Carlo Marcantonio - 1970 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 50 prints plus some Artist's Proofs.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sunken chameleon. Mezzotint print, Figurative, Monochromatic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative mezzotint print by Polish artist Krystyna Jaszke. Artwork is monochromatic, it comes from limited edition of 20. Print depicts portrait of a woman, a fantasti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Keith Haring Into 84 (Keith Haring Bill T. Jones announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Into 84/Keith haring Painted Man 1983:
Announcement card for Keith Haring’s well-documented exhibition, 'Into 84' at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 1983. For this ser...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
Microwave Oven (A Couple in the Sea)
By Colin Self
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary of David Hockney and Peter Blake, Colin Self is an important British printmaker whose innovative etching techniques and novel use of found materials have defined his diverse oeuvre. Yet unlike most artists associated with Pop Art, Self eschewed glossy, colorful bombast for nuanced drawings in a limited palette. Self's imagery has ranged from the geopolitical -- nuclear bombers, fallout shelters; to American icons -- hot dogs, Coca Cola cans; to the everyday -- intimate scenes of animals and plants, and whimsical figure drawings as seen here. The title of this print, Microwave Oven...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Tears From Mars, Digital Art Figurative Print on Paper, Nude Portrait, Woman
By SarahGrace
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Tears From Mars" (2021) by SarahGrace
Digital art print on archival paper, Figurative drawing, Portrait, Woman, Nude, Red, Peach, Pink and Orange
Hand-signed by artist
Framing Avail...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital
Game with a rabbit. Mezzotint print, Figurative, Monochromatic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative mezzotint print by Polish artist Krystyna Jaszke. Artwork is monochromatic, it comes from limited edition of 20. Print depicts portrait of a woman holding a r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Sea mystery. Mezzotint print, Figurative, Monochromatic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative mezzotint print by Polish artist Krystyna Jaszke. Artwork is monochromatic, it comes from limited edition of 20. Print depicts portrait of a woman, a fantasti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Sanctuary
Located in New Orleans, LA
This etching is #2 out of an edition of 10
Category
2010s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Flight above manor. Figurative Etching Print, Black and white, Polish Art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Black and white figurative drypoint etching print by Polish artist Czeslaw Tumielewicz. Artwork depicts three people flying above a residency. There is moon, sun and a sea in the bac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
'Vague Lumineuse' (Luminescent Wave) — Late 19th Century Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théophile Pierre Wagner, 'Vague Lumineuse' (Luminescent Wave), lithograph, edition not stated but small, c. 1895. Signed and titled in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower left. A f...
Category
1890s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Grosse Melie, Signed Nude Lithograph by Marie-Laure De Noailles
Located in Long Island City, NY
La Grosse Melie
Marie-Laure de Noailles, French (1902–1970)
Date: 1952
Lithograph on Arches, signed and dedicated in pencil
Edition of Dedicated Proof
Image Size: 14 x 11 inches
Size...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Woman from the Back - Original Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Woman from the Back is an etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006).
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 50.
...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The Red Host - Lithograph After Egon Schiele - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
The Red Host is a colored lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It deals with a reproduction of the homonym artwork realized in watercolor and pencil by the Aust...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonard Baskin Plate Signed Illustration Print American Modernist Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960).
The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin.
In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Black and White, Lithograph
Eternity
By Julian Jordanov
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A Greek warrior stands beside thee Trojan Horse, with beuatifully rendered landscape in this miniature print by Bulgarian artist Julian Jordanov.
Medium: Etching
Year: 2006
Artist P...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Italian Surrealist Aquatint Etching Enrico Baj Pop Art with Watercolor Painting
By Enrico Baj
Located in Surfside, FL
Enrico Baj (1924-2003) Italian, limited edition print.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil from limited edition of 100
Aquatint etching with the addition of hand watercolor painting ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching, Aquatint
The Magicians Vanite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: The Magicians Vanite
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris
EDITION NUMBER: 39/100
MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 11.2" x 1...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Crimes de l'Amour - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968.
Copy on Velin d'Arches. Includes matting.
Hans Bellmer was a German artist, who, when...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
La Philosophie dans le Boudoir - Etching by Hans Bellmer - 1968
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Roma, IT
This beautiful artwork is hand-signed. It comes from the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968.
Copy on Velin d'Arches. Includes matting.
Hans Bel...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Large Donald Saff Surrealist Pop Art Aquatint Etching Action Figure Gearhead
By Donald Saff
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Donald Saff
Title: Action Figure
Year: 1980
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, Hand signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
30 in. x 22.5 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Donald Jay...
Category
1980s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Sensual Rest - Original handsigned etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Baptiste Valadie
Sensual Rest, 1976
Original etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 199
On vellum 37 x 52 cm (c. 15 x 21 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Baby in vase)
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled (Baby in vase)
1976
Serigraph
Ed. Edition of 175
25.75 x 20.5 inches
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Playboy Bunny
By Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Ramos (American, b. 1935)
Title: Playboy Bunny
Year: 2012
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 199
Image Size: 16....
Category
2010s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Single Edition of Contemporary Shunga Book of Etchings -- O Man of Little Faith
Located in Troy, NY
While living and working in Soho, NYC, Japanese artist Kawakami produced these masterful etchings. These were obtained by a fellow artist of the Abstract New York School of Painting,...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Henry Moore, "Reclining Figure, " original etching, hand signed
By Henry Moore
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Henry Moore
Reclining Figure
Original etching in sepia, hand signed
1979
Image size: 12 5/8 x 15 7/8 inches
Framed Dimensions: 25 x 25 inches
Numbered 32/50 from the edition of 50 on...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
From "Valentina" to "O" - Vintage Offset Print after Guido Crepax - 1976
By Guido Crepax
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print, from "Valentina" to "O", in a vintage poster realized in 1976 after Guido Crepax., in occasion of his exhibition at Galleria Rondanini, Rome.
Very Good condit...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
La femme au poisson, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - La femme au poisson, Year: 1972, Medium: Etching, signed in pencil, Image Size: 6 x 5.5 inches, Size: 12.5 x 11 in. (31.75 x 27.94 cm), Descript...
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Woman on The Phone - Etching by Emile Laboureur - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Woman on The Phone is an original etching artwork, realized by Emile Laboureur in 1928
The state of preservation is very good. Image Dimensions: 13 x...
Category
1920s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching