01 work, The Art Of The Nude, by Mario Eduardo Testino Silva's Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, with footnotes, #241

Mario Eduardo Testino Silva

Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, CANNES, c. 2007

Digitally produced fiber based silver gelatin print

24 x 20 in.

Private collection

Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova (born 28 February 1982), nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.

In 2012, she came in third on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8.6 million in one year. Vodianova is currently ranked by models.com as one of the New Supers in the fashion industry.

Vodianova is the founder of the Naked Heart Foundation, a philanthropic organization committed to helping children with special needs and their families.

In 2010, Vodianova was awarded by Harper's Bazaar as Inspiration of the Year. In 2014 Glamour recognized her as Woman of the Year and awarded her its The Voice for Children award.

Vodianova is a mother of 5. She is also a member of the Special Olympics International Board of Directors. In 2021, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) appointed her as a Goodwill Ambassador for the sexual and reproductive health agency. More on Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova

Mario Eduardo Testino Silva OBE HonFRPS (born 30 October 1954) is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer. His work has featured internationally in magazines such as Vogue, V Magazine, Vanity Fair and GQ. He has also created images for brands such as Gucci, Burberry, Versace, Michael Kors, Chanel, Stuart Weitzman, Carolina Herrera and Estée Lauder.

Alongside his practice as a photographer, Testino has also worked as a creative director, guest editor, museum founder, art collector and collaborator and entrepreneur.

Starting in Peru, with his "Alta Moda" project casts a light on traditional Peruvian culture, Testino has been devoting his time to his passions and creative inspirations, exploring and documenting cultural heritage around the world in the “A Beautiful World” series. More on Mario Eduardo Testino Silva

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06 Works, The Art Of The Nude, A Collection of Paul Sieffert's Une femme nue allongée, with footnotes # 242

Paul Sieffert (FRENCH, 1874–1957)

Reclining nude

Oil on canvas

21 3/8 x 32 in. (54.3 x 81.2 cm.)

Private collection

Paul Sieffert, born in Paris on November 11, 1874 and died in 1957, was a French painter of nudes and portraits, and also an illustrator. He belonged to the French School.

Paul Sieffert (FRENCH, 1874–1957)

Reclining nude

Oil on canvas

21 3/8 x 32 in. (54.3 x 81.2 cm.)

Private collection

Sold for GBP 7,500 in Sept 2014

Paul Sieffert (French, 1874-1957)

Reclining nude

Oil on canvas

15 x 24.1/8 in. (38 x 61.4 cm.)

Private collection

Sold for GBP 2,500 in May 2014

Paul Sieffert was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme , Gabriel Guay and Albert Maignan . He exhibited at the Salon since 1894, and at the Society of Friends of the Arts in Bordeaux from 1910 to 1939. He received the First Grand Prix ​​at Rome in 1902, the diploma of honor at the Exhibition of 1937. He was secretary of competition at French artists and member of the committee and jury. Knight of the Legion of Honor , in 1931. Member of the Committee of the Free Society of French Artists . He also exhibited at the Salon d'Hiver from 1910 to 1944.

Paul Sieffert (FRENCH, 1874–1957)

A Reclining nude

Oil on canvas

H: 18 in / 46 cm | W: 31.5 in / 80.5 cm

Private collection

Sold for GBP 10,625 in Dec 2010

Depicting a reclining female nude on cream bearskin against a blue floral background. 

PAUL SIEFFERT (FRENCH, 1874-1957)

Une femme nue allongée

Oil on canvas

23 1/3 x 40in (58.5 x 101.5cm)

Private collection

Sold for GBP 3,250 in Aug 2016

He was also known for his stained glass, decorative compositions and illustrations of luxury books and collections of poetry, including The Flanks of the Vase, followed by Polyphemus and Unfinished Poems (1902) by Albert Samain .

PAUL SIEFFERT (FRENCH, 1874-1957)

Reclining nude

Oil on canvas

60 x 81.5cm (23 5/8 x 32 1/16in).

Private collection

Sold for £7,500 in Jun 2014

His career mostly based on his inexhaustible production of nudes. More on Paul Sieffert

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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Jean Veber's Dynamis, or Red Coal, with footnotes #237

Jean Veber, Paris, 1864 - Paris, 1928

Dynamis, or Red Coal (1902)

Oil on canvas

H. 112 cm. ; L. 156 cm.

Museum of Fine Arts, Tours

Dynamis is one of Veber's most striking works: Industry, embodied by a demonic woman, takes visible pleasure in crushing the workers who serve her...

Jean Veber

Dynamis or Red Coal , c. 1907

Lithograph

26 x 41 cm 43 x 58 cm

Private collection

Sold for 715EUR in September 2024

Jean Veber (13 February 1864 – 28 November 1928) was a French caricaturist and painter.

Jean Veber was born in Paris in 1864. Trained as a painter, he became an illustrator when his brother Pierre urged him to join the staff of the newspaper Gil Blas. In 1897, his drawing depicting Otto von Bismarck as a butcher of his own people caused a major controversy. Some of his caricatures were also published in L'Assiette au Beurre and Le Rire.

Veber volunteered into service in World War I at fifty years of age. He was intoxicated by poisonous gases and demobilized in the course of 1918.

Jean Veber died in 1928. More on Jean Veber

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05 works, The Art Of The Nude, Abraham Soloman Baylinson's Seated Nude and Reclining Woman, #239

Abraham Solomon Baylinson (Russian/American, 1882-1950)

Female Nude, c. 1937

Oil on canvas

19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (sight)

Private collection

Sold for $437.5 USD in Jan 2024

Abraham Solomon Baylinson (Russian/American, 1882-1950)

Seated Female Nude, c. 1939

Oil on canvas

35 1/4 x 29 1/2 inches (sight)

Private collection

Sold for $1,008 USD in Sep 2023

 Abraham Soloman Baylinson, Russian/American, 1882-1950

Seated Nude, c. 1931

Oil on canvas

36 x 30 inches (91.4 x 76.2 cm)

Private collection

Sold for $2,250 USD in Jan 2022

Abraham S. Baylinson (American, 1882-1950)

Seated female nude, c. 1935

Pencil and coloured chalks

19 1/8 x 14 in. (48.5 x 35.6 cm.)

Private collection

Sold for GBP 1,062 in Oct 2011

Abraham Soloman Baylinson, Russian/American, 1882-1950

Reclining Woman, c. 1932

Oil on canvas

24 x 34 inches (61 x 86.4 cm)

Private collection

Sold for $1,600 USD in Jan 2022

Abraham Solomon Baylinson (6 January 1882 – May 1950) was a Russian-American painter who was active in the early modernist movement.

The Baylinson family moved to the United States around 1892. Baylinson studied at the Art Students League of New York the National Academy of Design and the New York School of Art. While at the New York School of Art he trained under Robert Henri and alongside students such as Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Glenn Coleman, Eugene Speicher, and Patrick Henry Bruce. He also studied under Homer Boss.

He was secretary for the Society of Independent Artists from 1918 to 1934, and showed his work at the Society's shows from his joining in 1917 until 1942. Baylinson was an instructor of drawing and painting at the Art Students League from 1931 to 1933. In early 1931 a fire destroyed almost twenty years of work related to Baylinson's career. When he began painting after the fire his style had evolved into representational art.

He died on 6 May 1950 in New York City. More on Abraham Solomon Baylinson

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05 works, The Art Of The Nude, Diane Arbus' In a Nudist Camp, with footnotes #232

Diane Arbus

A Waitress in a Nudist Camp in New Jersey, c. 1963

Gelatin silver print

15 x 14 3/4 in. (38.1 x 37.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Diane Arbus

A husband and wife in the woods at a nudist camp, N.J., c. 1963

Gelatin silver print

21.5 × 19.6 cm (8 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Transgressing traditional boundaries, Diane Arbus is known for her highly desirable, groundbreaking portraiture taken primarily in the American Northeast during the late 1950s and 1960s. Famous for establishing strong personal relationships with her subjects, Arbus' evocative images capture them in varied levels of intimacy. More on this photograph

Diane Arbus

Nudist lady with swan sunglasses, Pa., c. 1965

Gelatin silver print

14 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (36.8 x 37.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Among Diane Arbus’s most celebrated studies of nudist life, this photograph was one of five on the subject included in the Museum of Modern Art’s New Documents, an influential 1967 group show that featured her work. More on this photograph

Diane Arbus 1923–1971

Young Girl at Nudist Camp, c. 1965

Gelatin silver print

14½ h × 14½ w in (37 × 37 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Diane Arbus 1923–1971

A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp, Pennsylvania, c. 1965

Gelatin silver print

 41.9 x 39.4 cm (16 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches)

RISD Museum

Diane Arbus told stories that had previously gone untold. Disrupting ideas of photographic portraiture, she photographed people who were cast out from the mainstream such as transvestites, nudists or circus  performers. As in Girl in a coat lying on her bed, NYC, Arbus keeps subjects unnamed, but specifies data on their location and activity. She was one of the first to cross the boundary between editorial photography and the museum, establishing photography as a collectible medium.

Unfortunately, she did not live to see her full impact on the art world. A year after committing suicide, her works were shown at the 1972 Venice Biennale, making her the first American photographer to have pictures featured at the event. She’s now considered one of the most important photographers of the 20th-century, with her artworks realizing a total of $2,007,598 at auction last year. More on Diane Arbus

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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Paul-Émile Bécat's Reclining nude with an attendant, with footnotes #231

Paul-Émile Bécat, (FRENCH, 1885-1960)

A reclining nude with an attendant, c. 1939

Oil on canvas

38 1/8 x 51 1/4in (96.8 x 130.2cm)

Private collection

Sold for US$15,075 in July 2020

Paul-Émile Bécat (2 February 1885 – 1 January 1960 in Paris) was a French painter, printmaker and engraver, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Returning from his travels to the Congo, Gabon, and the Sudan, he specialised from 1933 in the technique of drypoint in his erotic works. Today he is best known for his portraits of French writers, and for his erotic works. More on Paul-Émile Bécat

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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Robert Brackman's Muse, with footnotes #229

ROBERT BRACKMAN, 1898 - 1980

MORNING CHORE

Oil on canvas

28 by 22 inches (71.1 by 55.9)

Private collection

Estimate for 6,000 – 8,000 USD in September 2019

Robert Brackman, American, 1898-1980

A Muse, c. 1936

Oil on canvas

25 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches

Private collection

Sold for $2,813 USD in Jul 2013

 Muse, in Greco-Roman religion and mythology, any of a group of sister goddesses of obscure but ancient origin, in Boeotia, Greece. They were born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus. Very little is known of their cult, but they had a festival every four years at Thespiae. They probably were originally the patron goddesses of poets, although later their range was extended to include all liberal arts and sciences—hence, their connection with such institutions as the Museum (Mouseion, seat of the Muses) at Alexandria, Egypt. There were nine Muses as early as Homer’s Odyssey, and Homer invokes either a Muse or the Muses collectively from time to time. More on Muses

Robert Brackman (September 25, 1898 – July 16, 1980) was an American artist and teacher of Ukrainian origin, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes. Born in Odes'ka Oblast, Ukraine, he emigrated from the Russian Empire in 1908.

Brackman studied at the National Academy of Design from 1919 to 1921, and the Ferrer School in San Francisco. From 1931, he had a long career teaching at the Art Students League of New York where he was a life member. He also taught at the American Art School in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum School, the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and the Madison Art School in Connecticut. In 1932, Brackman was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1940.

Brackman was married to Rochelle Post; they later divorced. He had two daughters with his second wife. More on Robert Brackman

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