01 painting, The Art Of The Nude, reclining beauty, with footnotes # 9

Wayne Thiebaud, B.1920
NUDE on the stretcher, c. 1963
Oil on canvas
60 1/8 by 36 1/4 in. 152.7 by 92.1 cm.
Private collection

Nude is a stunning example of Wayne Thiebaud’s singular mastery of realist painting. Having worked from a live model, Thiebaud reveals his gifted draftsmanship and technical skill in the distinctive individual features of the sitter. 

Thiebaud deliberately avoids placing the figure in a context that would lead to an implied narrative. By positioning the figure in a descriptive vacuum, Thiebaud draws out the moments that exist either before or after an action takes place, preventing any particular emotion or mood to attach itself to the subject. More on this painting

Wayne Thiebaud (born November 15, 1920) is an American painter widely known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings. Thiebaud is associated with the pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work. More about Wayne Thiebaud




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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, reclining beauty, with footnotes # 8

José Cruz Herrera, (Spanish, 1890-1972)
A draped reclining beauty, c. 1933
Oil on panel
14 x 17 1/2in (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
Private collection

José Cruz Herrera (1 October 1890 – 11 August 1972) was a Spanish painter who concentrated principally on genre works and landscape art. He worked in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, France and especially Morocco, where he lived for much of his life in Casablanca.

His talent was soon apparent and he began formal training in Cádiz. He continued his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid before being awarded a grant to study in Paris and Rome in 1915. He subsequently received several more awards. He concentrated on genre works and landscapes, but he is best known as an orientalist painter, with a particular faculty for producing atmospheric depictions of scenes of everyday life in Morocco.

Cruz Herrera travelled to Montevideo in Uruguay and Buenos Aires in Argentina in 1922. He went to Morocco in 1929. He subsequently established a studio at Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris, and contributed to collective exhibitions in 1934, 1935 and 1936 at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He also exhibited solo at various times in Madrid, Barcelona and London in 1912, Antwerp in 1931, Casablanca in 1933, and Paris in 1934.

 After the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, he returned to Morocco. The following year Spain awarded Cruz Herrera a Knight's Cross in the Order of Isabella the Catholic, followed by a knighthood in the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise in 1958. He died on 11 August 1972 in Casablanca but his remains were transferred back to La Línea to be buried there. More on José Cruz Herrera 





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10 works, The Art Of The Nude, MAN RAY's Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes #217

MAN RAY (1890-1976) Portrait de Kiki, c. 1923 Oil on canvas 24 1/8 x 18 in. (61.3 x 45.6 cm.) Private collection Sold for USD 1,623,000 in ...