04 works, The Art Of The Nude, Lucien Clergue's Mermaids, with footnotes # 22

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Lucien Clergue

Nu de la Mer, Camargue, 1962

Vintage silver gelatin print

19 × 23 in; 48.3 × 58.4 cm

Private collection

Lucien Clergue (August 14, 1934 – November 15, 2014) was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013.

Clergue was born in Arles, France. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the violin, and after several years of study his teacher admitted that he had nothing more to teach him. Clergue was from a family of shopkeepers and could not afford to pursue further studies in a college or university school of music, such as a conservatory. In 1949, he learned the basics of photography. Four years later, at a corrida in Arles, he showed his photographs to Spanish painter Pablo Picasso who, though subdued, asked to see more of his work. Within a year and a half, young Clergue worked on his photography with the goal of sending more images to Picasso. During this period, he worked on a series of photographs of traveling entertainers, acrobats and harlequins, the « Saltimbanques ». He also worked on a series whose subject was carrion.

Lucien Clergue

Nu Drapé dans la Rivière, Bessages, 2005

Gelatin silver print

14 3/5 × 22 2/5 in; 37 × 57 cm

Private collection

Clergue’s work is deeply rooted in his home city of Arles. Picking up a camera as a young man in post-war Provence, he took a different route than other artists of his generation, turning his lens on the rubble and destruction of France after the war, often shooting in low-lit, decimated homes. In addition to his scenes of the city, Clergue’s oeuvre includes incisive images of peers such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and other iconic figures in the south of France. It is his faceless female nudes, however—from the subtle eroticism of his beachside scenes to the chic geometries of his black-and-white “Nu Zebre” series—that have become the artist’s signature. More on Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Nu de la Mer (No. 2), ca. 1980

Gelatin Silver Print

16 × 23 in; 40.6 × 58.4 cm

Private collection

In 1968, and with his friend Michel Tournier, Clergue founded the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival which is held annually in July in Arles.

Clergue’s photographs are in the collections of numerous well-known museums and private collectors. His photographs have been exhibited in over 100 solo exhibitions worldwide, with noted exhibitions such as in 1961, at the Museum of Modern Art New York. 

He was named Knight of the Légion d'honneur in 2003 and elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute of France on May 31, 2006, at the same time as a new section dedicated to photography was created. Clergue was the first photographer to enter the Academy to a position devoted specifically to photography. More on Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue

Nu de la Mer, Camargue, 1967

Gelatin silver print

23 1/2 × 19 1/2 in; 59.7 × 49.5 cm

Private collection

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Patti Hansen, with footnotes # 21

Hunjung Kim, South Korea

Girls inside me No.1117

Oil on Canvas.

Size: 13 H x 9.5 W x 0.7 in

Private collection

Kim Hyun-Jung has made her mark on the Korean art scene by painting outside the lines of how women are traditionally perceived in a rapidly-transforming South Korean society.

Kim’s work, which combines the use of paint and paper, is an ongoing series of portraits she refers to as Nae Sung Nyo which is a form of slang that describes a contradictory state where one’s traditional outward appearance does not necessarily reflect a more mischievous character within.

The talented artist’s work has also drawn the attention of brands such, Samsung, Perrier and Coca-Cola, which commissioned Kim for a campaign for the Olympics that included a tip of the hat to the South Korean women’s curling team who emerged as the darlings of the international media during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang earlier this year.

"All of my work translates into drawing self-portraits by looking into myself as if I was writing in a diary. As a result, every aspect of my daily life becomes the source of inspiration." More on Kim Hyun-Jung

06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Patti Hansen, with footnotes # 20

Francesco Scavullo

Patti Hansen Wearing A Shirtdress On A Beach, c. 1975

Photograph

Private collection

Patricia "Patti" Hansen (born March 17, 1956) is an American model and actress. She was discovered by photographer Peter Gert at age 14. After Gert took Hansen to a party hosted by Wilhelmina Cooper, former model and owner of the Wilhelmina Models, Cooper signed the teen to her agency. Hansen soon moved to Manhattan, enrolled at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan (she would later drop out), and began landing modeling jobs.

During Hansen's modeling career, she appeared on the covers and in the pages of Seventeen, American Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Harper's Bazaar. She also had campaigns for Calvin Klein (for which she featured on a billboard in Times Square), Revlon, and André Courrèges. At the height of her fame, Hansen appeared on the December 1978 cover of Esquire, celebrating "The Year of the Lusty Woman".


In the early 1980s, Hansen stopped modeling and began acting. She appeared in only three feature films. In 1993, Hansen returned to modeling when designer Calvin Klein used 1970s-era models for his 1993 collection. She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses". In 2004, Hansen, along with daughters Alexandra and Theodora, were featured in ads for Guerlain's perfume Shalimar Light.

Hansen married Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards on December 18, 1983. More on Patti Hansen

Helmut Newton

Patti Hansen and Keith Richards

Photograph

Private collection

Francesco Scavullo

Patti Hansen Wearing Only Bikini Bottoms, c. 1978

Photograph

Private collection

Francesco Scavullo (January 16, 1921 – January 6, 2004) was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.

Early on, he used his father's camera to photograph his sisters who would model for him. After graduating from high school in 1945, Scavullo began working for a studio that produced fashion catalogs. He soon moved to Vogue. Scavullo spent three years as Horst P. Horst's assistant, studying Horst's techniques. In 1948, he created a cover for Seventeen that won him a contract with the magazine. Scavullo soon opened his own studio in Manhattan.

Scavullo created shots for various movie posters, album covers and Broadway shows, including one for A Star is Born, Judy Collins, a portrait of Julie Andrews for Blake Edwards' Victor Victoria., and the cover and in-sleeve photos of Donna Summer. In 1981, Scavullo was commissioned by Mikhail Baryshnikov to photograph the dancers of the American Ballet Theatre which formed the basis of an exhibition that was later shown in a nationwide tour. More on Francesco Scavullo

Helmut Newton

Patti Hansen over Manhattan, c. 1977

Silver Gelatin Photograph

17 1/4 × 11 1/2 in; 43.8 × 29.2 cm

Private collection

Helmut Newton(1920-2004) 

Volontaires de la douleur/ Volunteers of Pain, c. 1974

Unique colour Polaroid print

3 x 2 7/8in. (9.5 x 7.3cm.) 

Private collection

Helmut Newton was born on October 31, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. He attended the American School in Berlin. From an early age, Newton developed a keen obsession with photography, purchasing his very first camera aged 12. Four years later, Newton was to turn his back on mainstream education, taking an apprenticeship with renowned German photographer, Elsle Simon, known as Yva. Her surreal, multiple exposure photographs that took in fashion, theater and the nude were to inspire Newton throughout his career.

On November 9, 1938, Newton, secured passage to China, where he stopped in Singapore until 1940 before leaving to Australia and finding work as a truck driver in the Australian Army.

Helmut Newton(1920-2004) 

Patti Hansen and Winnie Hollman for Xavier Coiffures, New York, c. 1976

Gelatin silver print 

11 x 15½in. (27.7 x 40cm.)

Private collection

In 1948, he married actress June Browne, herself a photographer under the name of Alice Springs, a name she chose from a map of Australia. High-profile contracts with Australian Vogue in the 1950’s; British Vogue in 1957-1958; French Vogue in 1961 provided Newton with the exposure that would allow him to stamp his style on fashion photography over the next 40 years.

Known as the ‘King of Kink’, Newton’s erotically charged imagery was provocative as it was masterful in its compositional and narrative direction. Creating highly charged images layered with voyeuristic, sado-masochist undertexts, Newton was drawn to empowered woman presenting a potent image of female sexuality in the 60’s and 70’s. 

Newton died, aged 83, in 2004 following a major car accident in Los Angeles. More on Helmut Newton

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08 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes # 18

Man Ray (1890-1976) (Below)

Retour à la Raison (Torso of Kiki of Montparnasse)

Edition: 'Le Nu', Paris, c. 1945

Intaglio process

Private collection

Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason) is a 1923 film directed by Man Ray. It consists of animated textures, Rayographs and the torso of Kiki of Montparnasse. 

Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist's model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s.

Gaston Paris (1903-1964) (Below)

Kiki de Montparnasse 1937-1939

An illegitimate child, she was raised in abject poverty by her grandmother. At age twelve, she was sent to live with her mother in Paris in order to find work. She first worked in shops and bakeries, but by the age of fourteen, she was posing nude for sculptors, which created discord with her mother.

Julian Mandel (1872-1935) (Below)

Kiki De Montparnasse

Seitlich nackt/ Naked on the side, c. 1910/1930

Julian Mandel (1872-1935) (Below)

Kiki De Montparnasse

Portrait of a semi-nude woman, c. 

circa 1920

Adopting a single name, "Kiki", she became a fixture in the Montparnasse social scene and a popular artist's model, posing for dozens of artists. Her companion for most of the 1920s was Man Ray, who made hundreds of portraits of her. She can be considered his muse at this time. 

MAN RAY (1890-1976) (Below)

Le Violon d'Ingres (Kiki of Montparnasse)

Man Ray, with Kiki de Montparnasse, for the photograph: 'Le Violon d'Ingres', 1924.

MAN RAY (1890-1976) (Below)

Le Violon d'Ingres (Kiki of Montparnasse)

A painter in her own right, in 1927 Prin had a sold-out exhibition of her paintings at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris. Her drawings and paintings comprise portraits, self-portraits, social activities, fanciful animals, and dreamy landscapes composed in a light, slightly uneven, expressionist style that is a reflection of her easy-going manner and boundless optimism. More on Kiki of Montparnasse

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself. More on Man Ray

Gaston Paris (1903-1964). At an early age he became a regular at the famous news magazine VU where he was an acquaintance of Man Ray, Kertész and Capa. Apart from this unmitigated news reporting that led him to photograph demonstrations by the Popular Front and the Laval trial as well as behind the scenes at Parisian cabarets, he was devoted to producing small series of photographs where the influence of the surrealists is obvious.

From the end of the thirties, he started to work for Détective, for which he (re) staged news items: a blend of horror and Grand Guignol (melodrama)!

This black and white square format enthusiast who perfectly mastered light and framing, left over fifteen thousand negatives on his death in 1964. They form a marvelous account from the thirties to the fifties, a slice of the history of France in the 20th century. More on Gaston Paris

Julian Mandel (1872-1935) was born in the Elsass (France). Mandel became a well-known photographer of art and eroticism since the beginning of the 20th century. Mandel spent his whole life trying to constitute photography as an art genre. His photographs of female nudes, especially those of Alice Prin, were soon sought after collectibles. Mandel was also a member of the German avant-garde group ‘Neues Zeitalter im Freien’. More on Julian Mandel

Alice Ernestine Prin (October 2, 1901 - April 29, 1953)

Kiki peignant, Paris 1926

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 17

Sir Robert (Robin) James Philipson R.A., P.R.S.A., R.S.W., R.G.I., L.L.D., D.LITT. (SCOTTISH 1916-1992) 

NUDE BY A WINDOW 

Oil on board 

24cm x 19.5cm (9.5in x 7.75in) 

Private collection

Sir Robert (Robin) James Philipson RA RSA FRSE RSW (1916–1992) was a Lancashire-born painter who was influential within the Scottish art scene for over three decades.

He was then schooled at Dumfries Academy and then studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1936 to 1940. On the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the King's Own Scottish Borderers and was posted to India, seeing action in Burma. After the war, he returned to Edinburgh and became a lecturer at the College of Art in 1947, later taking the post of Head of the Drawing and Painting Department from 1960 to 1982.

Philipson's early work was mainly of landscapes, still lifes and interiors. He was strongly influenced by Gillies and Maxwell, with whom, amongst others, he shared membership of the group known as The Edinburgh School. He is particularly renowned for his cockfight paintings, a series begun in the early 1950s. His later work in the 1960s explored more general figurative studies plus church and cathedral interiors and crucifixions.

Philipson was well known for his bold use of colour and his liberal use of heavy impasto in his works. He was appointed as President of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1973, a position he held until 1983.

Philipson received four honorary doctorates: DUniv (from both Stirling and Heriot Watt); LLD (from Aberdeen}; and Dlitt (from Glasgow). In 1977 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Cameron, Lord Cameron, Alick Buchanan-Smith, Anthony Elliot Ritchie, R. Martin and S. Smellie.

He also received many honours during his career, including a knighthood in 1976 for his services to art in Scotland.

He died in Edinburgh on 26 May 1992.hire-born painter who was influential within the Scottish art scene for over three decades. More on Sir Robert

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