John Steuart Curry Nude Paintings

Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...

Jacques Hubert Bonnefoy (Jakuber), Large 1942 Oil on Canvas, “Woman in a Red Armchair,” France. Vintage 1940s French Expressionist Oil Paintings Materials: Oil on Canvas, Wood Frame...

Jacob Dhein's (US based) "Nude with Light Blue" is an oil painting that depicts a nude female figure with her black robe parted with a white patterned background Bio/artist statement: Jacob Dhein was interested in art as a child. Crayons and colored pencils were his tools of expression. He spent hours intricately crafting drawings of comic book heroes and animals. By the time he graduated from high school, one of his drawings was exhibited on the wall of a local bank. It wasn't until he was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh that he decided to take a drawing class. He found this so compelling that he continued with sculpture and painting. During this time he met several accomplished and influential artists who encouraged him to pursue a career in art. Tc Farley...

Samantha Millington’s unique style of figurative art pops and zings from the canvas while also nodding in the direction of cubism and goddess figures from pre-history. Both thoughtfu...

Beautiful Rare Art Nouveau painting by Joseph Tomanek (1889-1974), depicting a child prancing around for several semi-nude woman in field. Highly Decor...

John Devoluy (1903-1982) Characters, 1950 c. Oil on canvas 28 3/4 x 24 inches l 73 x 61 cm With frame: 30 3/4 x 26 inches l 78 x 66 cm John Devoluy was born in 1903 and became a cen...

The Education of Love (Venus, Mercury, and Love) By Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio (Correggio, 1489 – Correggio, 1534) 17th/18th century Oil on canvas 157 x 93 cm. - Framed 175 x 112 cm. This antique painting, of excellent quality, is a valuable study of the work of Antonio Allegri (Correggio, c. 1489 - 1534), depicting ‘The Education of Love’, preserved in the National Gallery in London (oil on canvas, 155x92 cm.). Against a backdrop of dense vegetation, a winged female figure, traditionally recognized as Venus, leads the young Cupid to Mercury so that he may instruct him; the iconography of Mercury is essentially traditional, both in terms of his elaborate headdress, the petasos, and his winged sandals for flying. The history of this work is fascinating and noteworthy. Originally painted for the illustrious collection of the Mantuan nobleman Nicola Maffei, it passed in the early 17th century to the Gonzaga family, with whom the Maffeis had close ties, and then, in 1628, it left Italy to enter the collections of Charles I of England. Thanks to these transitions, among the most famous collections in Europe, it achieved immediate success and exceptional fame as early as the 16th century. Desired and praised over the centuries, the work fascinated many artists who wanted to pay explicit homage to it, often to satisfy the requests of the most illustrious art collectors of the time, who wanted to own their own copy. Other copies by Correggio are known besides the one in the National Gallery, including the one in the Château de Chenonceau in France (Ref. 1), which can be dated to between the 17th and 18th centuries and is very similar in style to the painting offered here. Another example, also dating from around the 17th century, is in the Stourhead Wiltshire Collection in England (Ref. 6). We can also mention the canvas on display at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, Romania, or those executed by other famous painters, either contemporaries or slightly later, demonstrating the early success of the painting: among these are Lambert Sustris (c. 1515-1584), Peter Oliver...

A nude figure is suspended in air, being held up by an invisible force field and surrounded by loops of wire. The muscular figure is tense with all the defined muscles showing. The...

America Martin "Woman Learns the Names of Plants" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 49.5" x 44" Framed Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin dra...

A contemporary female nude hovering a hairs breath over a lily pond, blue butterflies swirling around her, possibly lifting her into the twilight sky with them. Her arms are extende...

"La Cage Aux Fowls" Surreal Figurative Abstract, Oil on Canvas, 1980 Satirist Surreal painting by unknown artist Gerald Arnold Lester (American, 1936-2020) A stylized studio scene fe...

A graceful and intimately scaled figure study, this 1976 oil on canvas by Clyde Singer presents a standing female nude seen from behind, her body turned three-quarters toward the rig...