01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 32

ERWIN OLAF, B. 1959

Detail, MILAN HOTEL, ROOM 609, 2010

Chromogenic print, flush mounted to ribond

59.5 x 107 cm (23 1/2 x 42 in.)

Private collection

These photographs by Irwin feature models posing sometimes elegantly, provocatively or demurely in replica hotel guest rooms across the world with subtle differences such as a discarded shoe or a lit message on an answer phone. Particularly influenced by the early 1960's, the décor and lighting make reference to this era and are further underscored by the diluted colour palette of avocado greens and muted pastels. Olaf's models gaze into the distance and evoke an uneasy, disconnected sense of mystery; a sense of internal restlessness or longing. Their cinematic nature reflects Olaf's evolution as an artist, leaning towards a greater story that draws one in. More on this photograph

Erwin Olaf Springveld (born 2 July 1959), professionally known as Erwin Olaf, is a Dutch photographer from Hilversum, Netherlands.

Springveld is most famous for his commercial and personal work. He has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as Levi's, Microsoft and Nokia. Never one to shy away from controversy, Springveld's work is often daring and provocative. Humorously however, one of his early photographs was once expelled from a show on the basis of not containing nudity.

ERWIN OLAF, B. 1959

MILAN HOTEL, ROOM 609, 2010

Chromogenic print, flush mounted to ribond

59.5 x 107 cm (23 1/2 x 42 in.)

Private collection

His work has received many awards and he has held exhibitions around the world.

Springveld studied in the School of Journalism in Utrecht. His work is shown in galleries and museums all around the world. Springveld designed the 2014 Dutch euro coins with the portrait of King Willem-Alexander. More on Erwin Olaf Springveld

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 30

Alfred "di" Cesare (1910 - 1993)

Ultraviolet

Oil on board

61 x 76.2cm. 

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Alfred Di Cesare was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1910. At fourteen he suffered an injury playing football and spent two months in a hospital on bed rest, it was during this time that he began to sketch pencil portraits of the doctors.  His family doctor encouraged Di Cesare's father to enroll his son in the School of Practical Arts. Through connections at the school the artist began working for the Donnelly Advertising Company making original layouts for hand-painted billboards. On a lunch break one day he attended an exhibition of paintings by Boston artists and was impressed by a work by Ernest Lee Major (American, 1864-1950) and immediately sought him out as a teacher. After studying with Major, Di Cesare became Major's studio assistant for ten years at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, now the Massachusetts School of Art and Design. More on Alfred Di Cesare 

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01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 29

Marià Fortuny, Reus, 1838 – Rome, 1874

The Odalisque

Oil on cardboard

56.9 x 81 cm

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

An odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. 

An odalık was not a concubine of the harem, but a maid, although it was possible that she could become one. An odalık was ranked at the bottom of the social stratification of a harem, serving not the man of the household, but rather, his concubines and wives as personal chambermaids. Odalık were usually slaves given as gifts to the sultan by wealthy Turkish men. Generally, an odalık was never seen by the sultan but instead remained under the direct supervision of his mother, the Valide Sultan.

If an odalık was of extraordinary beauty or had exceptional talents in dancing or singing, she would be trained as a possible concubine. If selected, an odalık trained as a court lady would serve the sultan sexually and only after such sexual contact would she change in status, becoming thenceforth one of the consorts of the sultan.

In contrast to European depictions of nude harem women, they more often wore androgynous robes resembling those worn by the male pages of the palace. The conditions of the Ottoman harem "resembled a monastery for young girls more than the bordello of European imagination. More on an odalisque

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838-1874) is one of the notable artists of the Spanish school of the XIXth century. A fervent admirer of Goya, he had an incontestable influence on the Spanish and Italian painters of his epoch. Following a stay in Morocco in 1860, his topics evolve towards Orientalist subjects.

Mariano Fortuny's was not only an accomplished painter, but also a very good engraver and designer. The museum Goya, thanks to a donation of the stepdaughter of the artist in 1951 and regular purchases, has eighty-seven of his writings on paper drawings and watercolors, engravings. As part of this exhibition, this whole fund of graphic art is introduced to the public, illustrating his talent for design. More Mariano Fortuny y Marsal

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 28

Thomas Saliot, France

Golden Skin Blue

Oil on Canvas.

61 H x 47.2 W x 0.4 in

Private collection

Thomas Saliot: "I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas.

Thomas Saliot was born in Paris, France, in 1968. He studied Graphic Design at the Met de Penninghen (Esag) for 3 years and opened his own gallery in le Marais in the historic district of Paris from 1990 to 2000. For the past 20 years he has been living the life, painting and travelling between Marrakech, Morocco and his home city of Paris, France.  More on Thomas Saliot

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 27

Richard Prince (born 1949)

GIRLFRIEND (FROM THE 'COWBOYS AND GIRLFRIENDS' PORTFOLIO) 

Vintage Ektachrome print

51cm x 61cm (20in x 24in)

Private collection

Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. He began copying other photographers' work in 1977. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be sold for more than $1 million at auction at Christie's New York in 2005. He is regarded as "one of the most revered artists of his generation" according to the New York Times.

Starting in 1977, Prince photographed four photographs which previously appeared in the New York Times. This process of rephotographing continued into 1983, when his work Spiritual America featured Garry Gross's photo of Brooke Shields at the age of ten, standing in a bathtub, as an allusion to precocious sexuality and to the Alfred Stieglitz photograph by the same name. His Jokes series (beginning 1986) concerns the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of white, middle-class America, using stand-up comedy and burlesque humor. More on Richard Prince

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 20

Wade Reynolds

Nude, c. 1995

Oil on canvas

35 x 48 inches

Private collection

Wade Reynolds (born Charles Elwood Reynolds; June 5, 1929 – October 3, 2011) was a self-taught realist painter, Reynolds was best known for his figurative paintings often classified as California School of Light.

Reynolds was born in Jasper, New York, in 1929. He began his professional art career in New York City where he was hired in 1958 to create the artwork depicted in the film The World of Suzie Wong. From 1959 on, Reynolds resided in California, living in Newport Beach, Oceanside and San Francisco. He also painted in the Los Angeles area.

He was an instructor at the Art Institute of Southern California (now the Laguna College of Art and Design) and at the Academy of Art (now the Academy of Art University) in San Francisco. He influenced students including Julio Reyes, Candice Bohanon, and Alia El-Bermani. More on Wade Reynolds

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