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Nude Paintings For Sale
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Bend Over, #2264, Horst P. Horst Homage, Mixed media Collage on Paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Bend Over, #2264 by Natasha Zupan Collage on paper Measures: 11 in. H x 8.85 in. W One of a kind Signed lower right on recto by the artist 2018 Natasha Zupa...
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2010s Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

M with Stocking. One of a kind artwork intervened by the artist
Located in Miami Beach, FL
M with Stocking by Efren Isaza Image printed onto a canvas, intervened with paint, ink, and intentionally scratched by the artist Measures: 66 in. H x 55 in. W Signed, titled, dated,...
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2010s Other Art Style Nude Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Other Medium, Canvas

Parisian Model
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Parisian Model" is an oil on canvas painting by Max Weber painted in 1908. The work is signed and dated, lower right, "Max Weber Paris 1908". The painting size is 35 1/2 x 19 5/8 in...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Claudine Reading
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 18 x 21.5 inches Framed size: 26 x 29.5 inches Signed lower right
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20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Nude
By William Wiessler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Oil on canvas, 1923 Signed and dated lower left: Wm. Wiessler, '23 (see photo) Condition: excellent Canvas size: 24 1/4 x 29 1/4" Frame size: 33 5/8 x 38 5/8" Provenance: Estate of the Artist Radecki Galleries, South Bend Thomas French Fine Art...
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1920s American Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Nude painting
Located in London, GB
Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Oil on canvas
 55 x 47 cm (21 ⅝ x 18 ½ inches) 
Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo
 Executed circa 1910 This work is accompanied by a cer...
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1910s Fauvist Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Les Baigneuses by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude scene, riverscene painting
Located in London, GB
Les Baigneuses by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 89 x 118 cm (35 x 46 ¹/₂ inches) Signed and dated lower right, Paulémile - Pissarro. 1928. This work is accompanied by...
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1920s Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Reclining Figures
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in 1933, Otis Huband declared his intention to be an artist at age 6. He earned his BFA and MFA at Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William & Mary, now Virginia...
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2010s American Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portia Novella Le Brun or “Stephanie”
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portia Novella Le Brun or “Stephanie” Oil pastel on paper, 1941 Preliminary study for this work on the reverse (see last illustration) Signed in ink lower left Provenance: William Pe...
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1940s American Modern Nude Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Green Fields
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in 1933, Otis Huband declared his intention to be an artist at age 6. He earned his BFA and MFA at Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William & Mary, now Virginia...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Joyce Ann
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in 1933, Otis Huband declared his intention to be an artist at age 6. He earned his BFA and MFA at Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William & Mary, now Virginia...
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2010s Abstract Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nu Debout, Oil on Canvas Painting by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié
Located in London, GB
Nu Debout by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (B. 1935 - ) Oil on canvas 92 x 65 cm (36 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed lower right, Hugues Pissarro Dated on the reverse, Monte-Carlo 1963 and ...
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1960s Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nude Descending a Staircase #2
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Nude Descending a Staircase #2" is a painting by Mel Ramos. The painting is signed verso, "Mel Ramos '04". The framed piece measures 71 3/8 x 53 3/8 x 1 3/4 in. Mel Ramos is best known for his paintings of superheroes and female nudes juxtaposed with pop culture imagery. Many of the subjects in his paintings emerge from iconic brands or cultural touchstones like Chiquita bananas...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Le Concert des Sirènes
Located in Paris, FR
Adolphe La Lyre 1850-1935 French Le Concert des Sirenes Oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas: 32" high x 24" wide Frame: 39 1/2" high x 31" wide Seal Exhibition at Salon d...
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Late 19th Century French School Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Allegory of Fortune
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: S. Spinelli Collection, Florence; their sale, Galleria Pesaro, Milan, July 11-14, 1928, lot 112 (unsold); reoffered Galleria Luigi Bellini, Florence, April 23-26, 1934, lot 132, as manner of Baldassare Peruzzi Dr. Giacomo Ancona, Florence, 1930s, and after 1939, San Francisco; thence by descent to his son: Mario Ancona, San Francisco; thence by descent to his children: Mario Ancona III and Victoria Ancona, San Francisco, until 1995; thence to: Phyllis Ancona Green, widow of Mario Ancona, Los Angeles (1995-2012) Literature: Donato Sanminiatelli, Domenico Beccafumi. Milan 1967, p. 170 (under paintings attributed to Beccafumi) Among the precious survivors of Renaissance secular paintings for domestic interiors are several unusual and particularly attractive panels painted in Siena at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries. These paintings depict exemplary figures from antiquity—heroes or heroines, as well as allegorical, literary, and mythological figures. For the most part, these panels have survived in groups of three, although it is possible that some of these works were painted either as part of larger series or as individual projects. One such trio by Beccafumi consists of two paintings now at the National Gallery, London (Marcia and Tanaquil) and a third in the Galleria Doria-Pamphilj, Rome (Cornelia). These were commissioned around 1517–1519 for the bedroom of Francesco di Camillo Petrucci in Siena and were most likely placed together as elements in the wall decoration (spalliere) or installed above the back of a bench or cassapanca. Another, earlier (ca. 1495–1500), set of three—Guidoccio Cozzarelli’s Hippo, Camilla, and Lucretia (Private Collection, Siena) survives with its original wooden framework—a kind of secular triptych. Judith, Sophonisba, and Cleopatra in the collection of the Monte dei Paschi, Siena, are by an anonymous artist close to Beccafumi called the “Master of the Chigi-Saracini Heroines.” Girolamo di Benvenuto’s Cleopatra, Tuccia, and Portia are dispersed (homeless, Prague, Chambery), and Brescianino’s Faith, Hope, and Charity are in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena. The present painting first appeared in the Spinelli sale in Florence in 1934, at which time it was sold with two panels of identical size and format. Each was catalogued as being by the “manner of Baldassare Peruzzi” and of unidentified subject. Of these, the painting depicting a male figure turned to the right has recently reappeared in a private Italian collection, while the location of the third work, portraying a cloaked figure turned three-quarters left, remains unknown. Our panel depicts the allegorical figure of Fortune. Here she is represented in typical fashion as a nude female figure balanced on a wheel (sometimes called the Rota Fortunae), her billowing drapery indicating that she is as changeable as the wind. The appearance of the Virgin and Child in the cloud at the upper right is an unusual addition to the iconography. The subjects of the two pendant male...
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16th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Turn Your Eyes to the Heavens and Say Three Times: I do not have to be good
Located in New York, NY
Is it discomfort, or excitement, that you feel when you watch these women languidly roust, or subtly drift asleep? Do you happily play the voyeur, seduced by their beauty and the opu...
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2010s Nude Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

Venus and Adonis
By Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin (workshop)
Located in Paris, FR
Baron Pierre Narcisse GUERIN (Circle of) 1774-1833 French Venus et Adonis (Venus and Adonis) Oil on canvas Canvas: 53" high x 39 1/2" wide Frame: ...
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19th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nu au canapé bleu y Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Nude painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Nu au canapé bleu y Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 15 inches) Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo Executed circa 1910 This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Lélia Pissarro. Provenance: Private collection, France Artist biography: Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, born in Paris in 1878, was Camille Pissarro’s fourth son. Encouraged by his father...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jeune femme à la rivière by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude painting
Located in London, GB
Jeune femme à la rivière by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on panel 46 x 37.5 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 14 ³/₄ inches) Signed and dated lower right, 1910. manzana Using oil on panel, Manzana delicately captures the floral patterning of the fabric and depicts the female elegantly as she leans over the river. This work clearly demonstrates the influence of Gauguin's Tahitian paintings...
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1910s Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Baigneuses avec cygne by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Baigneuses avec cygne by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on panel 30 x 37.5 cm (11 ³/₄ x 14 ³/₄ inches) ...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Blue Chroma, Figurative nude. Oil on canvas. Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Blue Chroma, by Jose Ricardo Contreras González From the Movies series Oil on canvas 30 cm. H x 25 W cm. Unframed José Ricardo Cont...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Two Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board Image size: 40.5 H in. x 55.5 in. W Mounted on acid-free board: 41 H x 56 in. W Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. ____________ Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil, Oil Pastel

Orientale
Located in New York, NY
Signed, lower right: Fantin Provenance: Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris; possibly by descent to his son: Julien Tempelaere (1876–1961) and with F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, prob...
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1890s Romantic Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Oil

Baigneuses en Bord de Rivière by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Baigneuses en Bord de Rivière by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on cardboard 98.2 x 79.4 cm (38...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Single Twin Reclined, Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Single twin reclined by Efren Isaza Size: 40.5 x 29 inches Framed image printed on an archival canvas, intervened with paint, ink and intentionally scratched by the artist Signed, ti...
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2010s Other Art Style Nude Paintings

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Other Medium, Oil Pastel

Color Origami Spiral I, Intervened photograph mounted on aluminum
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Color Origami Sipiral I Measures: 43 x 29 inches Archival pigment print One of a kind mounted on aluminum, frame This of one of a kind intervened artworks produced in 2009 and 2010 ...
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2010s Other Art Style Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Pigment

Twins with Red Coat. One of a kind artwork intervened by the artist, (Framed)
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Twins with red coat Framed archival pigment image on canvas, intervened with hand-applied paint, ink and intentionally scratched by the artist Image size: H 25 in. x 27 in. W Frame s...
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2010s Other Art Style Nude Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Archival Pigment

Jeune Fille à l'Accordéon by ISMAEL DE LA SERNA - Spanish artist, cubist art
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Jeune Fille à l'Accordéon by ISMAEL DE LA SERNA (1898-1968) Oil on masonite 88.9 x 115.6 cm (35 x 45 ¹/₂ i...
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1940s Cubist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Nude oil painting by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro titled 'La Brune au Tableau de Nu'
Located in London, GB
'La Brune au Tableau de Nu' by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro Oil on canvas 60 x 81.5 cm (23 ⅝ x 32 ⅛ inches) Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo Executed circa 1910 This work will be accompani...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cabaret Dancers by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO - Post-Impressionist Art, Paris Scenes
Located in London, GB
Cabaret Dancers by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) Oil on panel 46 x 55 cm (18 ⅛ x 21 ⅝ inches) Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo Painted circa 1906 A rare Fauve work from the art...
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Deux Baigneuses dans un Paysage by GEORGES MANZANA PISSARRO - Bathers
Located in London, GB
Deux Baigneuses dans un Paysage by GEORGES MANZANA PISSARRO (1871-1961) Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 1⁄8 inches) Signed and dated lower left, Manzana Pissarro 55 This work is ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rebecca Couchée by JULES PASCIN - School of Paris, Nude Painting, Figurative Art
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Rebecca Couchée by JULES PASCIN (1885-1930) Oil over pencil on canvas 73.1 x 91.8 cm (28 ¾ x 36 ⅛ inches...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Pencil

Rural Family
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Rural Family" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in blues and greens by American Post-War artist Irving Nor...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Oil

Standing Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude Oil on canvas, c. 1910 Signed lower left corner (see photo) Condition: Excellent Housed in a 22K Gold Leaf ...
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1910s Ashcan School Nude Paintings

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Oil

La Danse des Sirènes
Located in Paris, FR
Adolphe LA LYRE 1850-1935 French "La danse des Sirènes" Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left Painted in 1909 Canvas: 59" high x 78 3/4" wide Frame: 64"high x 84 5/8" wide ...
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Early 20th Century Academic Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rêverie
Located in Paris, FR
Albert LYNCH (1851-1936) French "Rêverie" Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas: 43 1/4" high x 24 3/4" wide Frame: 49 5/8" high x 30 3/4" wide Albert LYNCH: Born in Lima in 1851, Albert Lynch studied art at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris and in the studios of the figure painters Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Lehmann...
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19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Crossing the Bridge
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Crossing the Bridge" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in browns and grays by American Post-War artist Irv...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Oil

Slum Youth
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Slum Youth" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in blacks and blues by American Post-War artist Irving Norma...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Oil

Totem of a Holy Family
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Totem of a Holy Family" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in reds, tans, and golds by American Post-War artist Irving Norman. The artwork i...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Oil

Frosted Window
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Frosted Window" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in blues and grays by American Post-War artist Irving No...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Oil

Prisoner
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Prisoner" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in blacks and blues by American Post-War artist Irving Norman. The artwork is unsigned. The Lit...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Oil

War Wounded
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "War Wounded" is a macabre, social surrealist painting, oil on canvas by American artist Irving Norman. The artwork is unsigned. The Lithuanian-American ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Nude in front of light house, Lake Erie)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Nude in front of light house, Lake Erie) Oil on board, 1970 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Estate Stamp verso, No. 359 (see photo) Condition: Original untouched "...
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1970s American Modern Nude Paintings

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Oil

Supreme Justice
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Supreme Justice" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a dark palette by artist Irving Norman. The artwork is signed on the verso, "Supreme ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Prisoners
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Prisoners" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in dark colors by American artist Irving Norman. The work is unsigned. The Lithuanian-American...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
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...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Children #2
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Children #2" is a macabre, social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a dark palette by American artist Irving Norman. The artwork is signed on the ve...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Baigneuse
By Marguerite Arosa
Located in Paris, FR
Marguerite AROSA (1850-1903), French "Baigneuse" (Bather) Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas: 66 1/5" high x 50" wide Frame: 74 1/5" high x 57 1/2" wide This painting was e...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Farewell
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Farewell" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a dark palette by Irving Norman. The Lithuanian-American artist Irving Norman was a social s...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Carousel Restaurant
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Carousel Restaurant" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a palette of reds, blacks, and beiges by American artist Irving Norman. The Lithu...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Nu Debout by HUGUES PISSARRO - Nude Painting, Human Figure, Oil on Canvas, Art
Located in London, GB
Nu Debout by HUGUES PISSARRO (b. 1935) Oil on canvas 92 x 65 cm (36 ¼ x 25 ⅝ inches) Signed lower right, Hugues Pissarro. Dated on the reverse, Monte-Carlo 1963 and inscribed, Hugu...
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1960s Modern Nude Paintings

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Oil

Yellow Nude. Portrait. Painting Pastel, pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Yellow Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board Image size: 52.5 H in. x 37.8 in. W M...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Archival Ink, Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil

La Lecture
Located in Paris, FR
Delphin Enjorlas 1857-1945 French La Lecture Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas: 18 1/8" high x 24" wide Frame: 27 1/8" high x 33 1/8" wide Delphin Enjolras was a French g...
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19th Century Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled Nude, Painting. Mounted on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled Acrylic on Canvas, Mounted on canvas One of a kind 36 in. H x 36 in. W inches D 2. 2020 ________________________________ Juan C. Estrada combines realism and surrealism in...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Nude with Green Hair
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
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1970s American Modern Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Eros and Psyche
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Woman from Behind
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right This painting was reproduced on page 151 of John La Gatta-An Artist's Life by Jill Bossert, Madison ...
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1940s Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dans les Rochers de la Plage, a Carteret
Located in Paris, FR
Adolphe La Lyre 1850-1935 French Dans les Rochers de la PLage, a Carteret Oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas: 42" high x 78" wide Frame: 47 1/4" high x 82 1/2" wide Origi...
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Shop Antique and Vintage Nude Paintings

Today, antique and vintage nude paintings are popular works of art to consider when decorating your home.

The nude as an artist’s subject gained prominence in ancient Greece, wherein male nudes were rendered equivalent to power and victory owing to the Greeks’ celebration of men in athletic events as well as in the worship of the gods who populate Greek mythology. Nude sculptures in Greece positioned men as warriors — strong, moral and fearless. The naked female figures featured in prehistoric art and the art of ancient civilizations, on the other hand, were symbols of fertility and procreation.

Italian painters of the 1400s looked to the magnificent nude sculptures of Greek and Roman art for inspiration. By the end of the century, drawing of undressed models was part of the common practice for these artists. When Christianity had spread through Europe, however, Christians condemned Renaissance nude paintings — most of which are considered famous nude paintings today — because they were erotic, exploring, in some cases, same-sex relationships as well as women’s sexual power. Censorship was the order of the day, except for religious-themed works, such as 1526’s iconic Adam and Eve, an oil painting made by German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of more than 50 works made in his workshop based on the biblical story. Tuscan painter Daniele da Volterra was famously hired to paint fig leaves over the most exposed figures of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. While freedom of expression for artists has expanded significantly since then, prudish censorship persists when it comes to Renaissance nudity.

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