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Nude Prints For Sale
Crouching Male Nude (Self Portrait) - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Crouching Male Nude (Self-Portrait) is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " by Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym black crayon drawing, a self-portrai...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Nu Bleu VII (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Marc Chagall - Colorful Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Édit...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Keith Haring Fault Lines 1986 (4 works)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Fault Lines 1986 (set of 4 printed works):
A grouping of 4 lithographs from the book Fault Lines by Brison Gysin with illustrations by Keith Haring. These works are eac...
Category
1980s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Reclining Nude Holding a Necklace
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Nude Holding a Necklace
Lithograph, c. 1908
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: c. 15
Reference: Belleroche No. 525
Condition: Excellent
Image: 16 3/4 x 20"
...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Rare 1980s Keith Haring record art (vintage Keith Haring)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring album art 1987:
A rare vinyl art cover featuring original offset artwork by Keith Haring. Truly vibrant colors that make for stand-out wall art. Looks very cool framed. ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
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
Acting Proud, Nude Art Giclee Print by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) - Acting Proud, Portfolio: Vintage Nudes, Year: 2001, Medium: Giclee signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Giclée
The Dance - Original Etching by Louis Jou - Early 20th Century
By Louis Jou
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is an original etching realized by Louis Jou in the Early 20th Century.
Monogrammed on the lower.
Good conditions with some foxing.
Louis Jou (Gracia, 1882 - Baux, 1968), the twentieth-century etcher and wood engraver, was a prolific illustrator of a large number of books in France, authored by big names like Andre Gide...
Category
1920s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Mother and Child Before Notre Dame
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Mother and Child before Notre Dame
Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28
Year: 1952
Edition: 6000
Signed: Unsigned
Framed Size: 22" x 18 1...
Category
1950s Fauvist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Male Acrobat, Impressionist Lithograph by Auguste Rodin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Male Acrobat, Year: 1902, Medium: Lithograph on Japon, signed in the plate, Image Size: 9 x 8 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Refe...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude Girl with Raised Arms - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Girl With Raised Arms is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " after Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Giordano & Velazquez's Venuses - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Nude
Located in Warsaw, PL
PAWEL ZABLOCKI (born in 1960)
Pawel Zablocki is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received his diploma in 1987. Between 1991 and 1998, Zablocki studied semiotics a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Larry Rivers Lithograph "For Adults Only I" Corseted Nude Female
By Larry Rivers
Located in Detroit, MI
"For Adults Only I" is an exquisite offset lithograph print with colors of an alluring corseted and stockinged nude female in a confrontational pose filling the frame inviting the vi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Salvador Dali - Nude with Snail
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Snail - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The 156, The Painter and The Woman - Original Etching, Signed (Baer #1918)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
The 156, The Painter and The Woman (plate 57), 1978
Original etching (Crommelynck workshop)
Signed with stamp
Justified HC B/C
On vellum, 41.5 x 48 cm (c. ...
Category
1970s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Reclining Woman - Original Lithograph after Egon Schiele - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Woman is a beautiful and original lithograph from the portfolio "Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym charcoal drawing realized by the Austrian ma...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Artist and Model, Modern Lithograph by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Model, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Size: 33 in. x 24 in. (83.82 cm x...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - 12 - Original Lithograph by Carlo Marcantonio - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 50 pieces.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Venere e Amore sui Delfini (Venus and Cupid on Dolphins) /// Old Masters Raphael
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Marco Dente da Ravenna (Italian, 1493-1527)
Title: "Venere e Amore sui Delfini (Venus and Cupid on Dolphins)"
*Monogram signed by Dente in the plate (printed signature) lower left
Circa: 1515-1520 (second state of three)
Medium: Original Engraving on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Antonio Salamanca, Rome, Italy
Reference: Bartsch XIV, page 244, No. 324; Passavant VI, page 69, No. 32; Le Blanc, II, page 111, No. 16; Imolesi Pozzi pages 71-72, 113, No. 10
Framing: Recently beautifully framed, the sheet is museum mounted, floated over a 100% cotton rag mat in a modern gold moulding and Museum glass
Framed size: 16.88" x 13.07"
Sheet size: 10.63" x 6.94"
Condition: Thread margins. A strong impression in excellent condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Périgueux, France. This work is also sometimes referred to as "Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the clouds above". The engraver's monogram "SR" lower left. Published by Antonio Salamanca (1478-1562) in Rome, Italy with his address printed lower right: "Ant. Sal. Exc.". No watermark found. This engraving is after a drawing by Italian artist Raphael aka Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520).
"This engraving by Marco Dente is after a design by Raphael, now lost, used by Giulio Romano for his fresco on the south wall of the Stufetta of cardinal Bibbiena - a small room in the Apostolic Palace, at the Vatican, that originally served as a washroom for the cardinal. The engraving differs from the fresco in some details, such as the cityscape in the background and the two winds above, which may indicate that these elements were present in Raphael's drawing. " - Christie's, London
Biography:
Marco Dente da Ravenna (1493–1527), usually just called Marco Dente, was an Italian engraver born in Ravenna in the latter part of the 15th Century. He was a prominent figure within the circle of printmakers around Marcantonio Raimondi...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Laid Paper, Engraving
SLF V (Single Line Female V)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 50.
Female nude etching, from a series of 6 male and 6 female images.
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, Minotaure Mourant (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Minotaure Mourant (after Bloch 198)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype halftone screen pr...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Woman Nude from the back - Original Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 66 prints, 50 in arab numbers and 16 in roman numbers, all hand signed and numbered.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude -Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a lithograph, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in the 1980.
The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent.
Artist's proof.
Hand-signed.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Courtesan and Young Man at Fuchu' Original Erotic Shunga Woodblock
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work is an excellent example of the erotic Shunga prints produced by Utagawa 'Ando' Hioshige and his school. Shunga imagery became especially widespread in Japan with the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Edo Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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
Andy Warhol Studies for a Boy Book (1950s Warhol illustrated announcement)
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Studies for a Boy Book 1956:
A rare sought-after, 1950s Andy Warhol designed poster invitation published on the occasion of: Warhol's 'Studies for a Boy Book', held at the Bodley Gallery and Bookshop Feb. 14 - March 3, 1956. A rare early Warhol collectible that seldom comes to market. Not to be passed upon.
Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper. Framed in glass.
Dimensions: 15.75 x 13.5 inches (40 x 34.3 cm).
Framed dimensions: 24h x 26w inches.
Good overall vintage condition; fold-lines as originally issued;
Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Rare.
With the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Authorization ink-stamps on the reverse; initialed 'T.J.H.' by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation and annotated 'XX-07.16' and 'PM19.0242' in pencil on the reverse.
Provenance:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Further Background:
"In the 1950's Warhol self-published a large series of artist’s books & hold parties at Serendipity 3, a restaurant and ice cream parlor on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where his friends would help him hand color his books. In 1956, he presented a solo exhibition at the Bodley Gallery called Studies for a Boy Book. These sketchbook drawings of portraits of young men and erotic portrayals of male nudes contrasted with the work of other contemporary gay artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, who considered Warhol 'too swish.' (source: The Andy Warhol Museum)
Collections:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Further background:
Warhol’s career began as a commercial illustrator on New York’s Madison Avenue in 1949, during the massive post-war economic boom. His arrival additionally coincided with an extensive change in the motivations and strategies behind advertising, utilizing applied psychology to influence American consumers to purchase products. This stint as an ad man would further his Pop interest in cultural commercialization and start his artistic career; thus began the first chapter of Warhol’s oeuvre, dominated by charming and light-handed ink drawings.
As a master of line and contour, Warhol’s consistent and unique drawings and designs piqued the interest of his clients, earning him commissions and collaborations with some of the biggest brands of the day: Tiffany & Co., Columbia Records, and Vogue, to name a few. Though stylistically different from the Pop, these early drawings offer a glimpse at an artist well on his way to establishing an art movement that would change the way the world conceived of contemporary art and its connection to pop culture, morphing from his early successes in the commercial art scene.
The simple yet sophisticated line drawings contain... his favorite things: cherubs, shoes, cats, and often young men. Across these drawings and hand-colored prints, we see Warhol as a compulsive creator, documenting life and fantasy with the stark clarity of ink on paper." (source: Phillips)
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Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop Art king, Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Warhol was widely influenced by popular & consumer culture, with this being evident in some of his most famous works: 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe & Mick Jagger, for example. Rejecting the standard painting and sculpting modes of his era, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His most bold successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions.
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1960s Pop Art Nude Prints
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Nude with raised hand - XXI Century, Figurative Monotype Print, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Monotype
Nu se Tordant les Cheveux, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph reproduction from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Nu se tordant les cheveux". The original painting was completed in 1952. In the...
Category
1980s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The 156, Woman in the Mirror - Original Etching, Signed (Baer #2023)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
The 156, Woman in the Mirror (plate 156), 1978
Original etching (Crommelynck workshop)
Signed with stamp
Justified HC B/C
On vellum, 41.5 x 48 cm (c. 16.33...
Category
1970s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Woman from the Back - Original Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman from the backis an etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006).
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered edition,10/20.
In good condition
...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The 156, Don't Look, My Child - Original Etching, Signed (Baer #1957)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
The 156, Don't Look, My Child (plate 93), 1978
Original etching (Crommelynck workshop)
Signed with stamp
Justified HC B/C
On vellum, 36.5 x 45 cm (c. 14.37...
Category
1970s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude Figure Study, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - 2022) - Nude Figure Study, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed in pencil, Image Size: 9.5 x 15.75 inches, Size: ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Nude of Woman - Lithograph by Carlo Marcantonio - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is a Lithograph realized by Carlo Marcantonio in 1970s.
This original print is hand signed. This is an edition of 50 prints plus some artist's proofs, numbered 21/50.
Prints are the most affordable and reasonably priced artworks...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SLF IV (Single Line Female IV)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Female nude etching, from a series of 6 male and 6 female images.
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Andy Warhol's TRASH vintage 1970 linen-backed movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Andy Warhol’s TRASH, 1970 US 1-sheet movie poster. Archival linen-backed • Very Fine condition • Ready to frame. Photographer: Jack Mitchell. Grade A condition.
Bring a piece o...
Category
1970s American Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
La Femme En Bleu (State II), hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed lower right by Douglas Hofmann. From the edition of 300. Hand numbered lower left.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$600 Sale Price
50% Off
Reclining Woman - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Woman is a lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " after Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym charcoal drawing realized by the Austrian master in 1918 (tod...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
'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...
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20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude - XXI Century, Figurative Monotype Print, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Monotype
Woman - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Woman i is an original screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered .Edition 11/90.
The artwork represents a female nude in profile wi...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Corvette, Pop Art Lithograph by Mel Ramos
By Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - 2018)
Title: Corvette
Year: 2003
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 149/199
Image Size: 17.75 x 27.5 inches
Size: 23 x 34...
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1980s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Lovers of Okazaki' Original Erotic Shunga Woodblock Print by Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work is an excellent example of the erotic Shunga prints produced by Utagawa 'Ando' Hioshige and his school. Shunga imagery became especially widespread in Japan with the...
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Mid-19th Century Edo Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Presso Ludivico Mirri Mercante d’Quadri incontro al Palazzo Bernini a Roma
Located in Paonia, CO
Presse Ludovico Mirri Mercante d’Quadri incontro al Palazzo Bernini a Roma is from a series of original engravings published by Lodovico Mirri in the late 18th century and engraved ...
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Late 18th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
Large Donald Saff Surrealist Pop Art Aquatint Etching Blue cat with Baby
By Donald Saff
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Donald Saff
Title:
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)
bears publishers blindst...
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1980s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
SLM II
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Male nude etching, from a series of 6 male and 6 female images.
Signed, titled and numbered , by the artist. Edition of 50.
In January 2018, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco mounted an exhibition An Artist’s Evolution, a retrospective which has elevated Fernando’s exposure in the SF Bay Area...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Matisse, Baigneuse dans les Roseaux (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Li...
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1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
38% Off
Femmes en Costumes II
By Leonor Fini
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Leonor Fini
Title: Femmes en Costumes
Year: c.1970
Medium: Original color engraving
Edition: Inscribed E.A (Epreuve d'Artiste, Artist Proof) in pencil
Paper: Arches paper
Ima...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
Asleep on the Devil's Shoulder /// Contemporary Linocut Pool Sunbathing Nude
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Asleep on the Devil's Shoulder"
*Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left
Year: 1997
Medium: Original Linocut on white Hosho handmade...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Linocut
Woman from Shoulder - Original Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman from Shoulders is an etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006).
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered edition, I/X.
In good condition
...
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1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
"Femme nue assise" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original soft ground etching. Catalogue reference: Delteil 12. Executed in 1906, this is a lifetime impression published in 1909 in Berlin by Cassirer for "Kunst und Kunstler...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Woman - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a F...
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1920s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude Woman - Lithograph by Guglielmo Coladonato - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude woman is an original modern artwork realized in mid-20th century by the artist Guglielmo Coladonato.
Lithograph on paper.
Signature an hand written dedication on the lower ma...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Larry Rivers Republique De Guinee Pochoir Inscribed in ink to Andy Warhol Framed
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers
Republique De Guinee, for Andy Warhol, Inscribed in ink to Andy Warhol, 1977
Color Pochoir, Acrylic Airbrush and Pencil on paper with deckled edges
Hand signed and inscr...
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Stencil
Picasso, Flûtiste et Jeune Fille au Tambourin (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Title: Flûtiste et Jeune Fille au Tambourin (after Bloch 213)
Year: 1992
Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype...
Category
1990s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,920 Sale Price
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De l'Origine des Espèces par Voie de Sélection Irrationelle: Buste de femme
By Man Ray
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 51/180 in pencil. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Leon Amiel, New York, and XXe Siècle, Paris. From the s...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Nude - Etching by Carlo Marcantonio - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Marcantonio.
Hand-signed in the lower right in pencil.
Good conditions.
Edition of 50.
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching