01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 48

Federico Zandomeneghi, VENISE 1841 - 1917 PARIS

THE MODEL RESTING IN THE STUDIO

Oil on canvas

22 x 16.3 cm ; 8  5/8 by 6  3/8 in.

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Federico Zandomeneghi (June 2, 1841 – December 31, 1917) was an Italian Impressionist painter, born in Venice. As a young man, he enrolling in 1856 first in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, and then in the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan. In 1859, to avoid conscription into the Austrian army, he flees Venice. The next year in he tried to join with the forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882). This made it uncomfortable for him to reside in Venice, leading to a brief incarceration, and in 1862, he moved to Florence. There he met a number of the artists known as the Macchiaioli, and he joined them in painting landscapes outdoors. Painting outside of the studio, "en plein air", was at that time an innovative approach, allowing for a new vividness and spontaneity in the rendering of light.

In 1874, he went to Paris, where he was to spend nearly the rest of his life. He quickly made the acquaintance of the Impressionists, who had just had their first group exhibition. Zandomeneghi, whose style of painting was similar to theirs, would participate in four of their later exhibitions, in 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1886. Like his close friend Edgar Degas he was primarily a figure painter. To supplement the meager returns from the sale of his paintings, Zandomeneghi found work drawing illustrations for fashion magazines.


He took up working in pastels in the early 1890s, and became especially adept in this medium. At about this same time his reputation and his fortunes were enhanced when the art dealer Durand-Ruel showed Zandomeneghi's work in the United States. From then on he enjoyed continuing modest success until his death in Paris in 1917. More on Federico Zandomeneghi

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 47

Jan MC Asselbergs, 1937 - 2015

YOUNG WOMAN IN A KIMONO

Oil on canvas. 

100.5 x 70 cm.

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In front of a screen painted with green leaves standing a young woman with brown hair in back view. She has slightly turned her head and is about to strip her Japanese silk kimono printed with colorful flowers on her right shoulder. To the left of her is a simple four-legged table with a small egg timer. More on this painting

Jan MC Asselbergs (1937-2015), is best known for his portraits of Beatrix, Willem-Alexander and former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers. He also painted many nudes, professors, rector magnifici and large industrialists.

Asselbergs was awarded the Royal Award, had his own satirical TV show. In 1969 he released 'Van jou en Mei'; the first Dutch-language LP. H taught drawing at the St. Paulus lyceum in Tilburg for 13 years. He was a guest teacher for 25 years at the Tilburg Art Circle. More on Jan MC Asselbergs

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 46

MARIAN MARCEL, (1920 - 1993) 

Les frôleuses, c. 1984

Photograph

24 x 18 cm

Private collection

Les frôleuses; Provocative woman; seductive.

Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920 in Antwerp – September 19, 1993 in Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects.

Mariën was one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but also a publisher, a bookseller, a sailor, a journalist in China and an elaborate Surrealist prankster.

Aged 15, Marien became apprentice to a photographer – initially undertaking menial roles, but later setting up a home studio to develop his own projects. In 1937, he first encountered the surrealist paintings of René Magritte in exhibition and – inspired by André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto - traveled to Brussels to seek out the artist.

Magritte was warmly welcomed into the close-knit Belgian Surrealist group. Within a year, he had his own work included in the Surrealist group exhibition, Surrealist Objects and Poems, in London.

In 1939, he enlisted in the Belgian Army to fight in World War II, but was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Germany. Following his release, he returned to Brussels and, in 1943, wrote and published the very first monograph on Magritte.

It was not until 1943 that he produced his first photograph with a distinctive personal vision, “De Sade à Lénine”, an image of a woman cutting a slice of bread, the loaf gripped tightly against her naked torso, the blade pointing at her left breast. Mariën commented, “the knife passes from de Sade to Lenin”.

It was pure Surrealism, marked with the two themes that would characterize his photography: the everyday object stripped of its traditional function and the female body as an instrument of creation.

Mariën was never a practical man and was helped by his partner Hedwige Benedix in the production of his art work. In 1983, a year after her death, he again took up photography as a quick and immediate way of expressing his ideas. He carried on where he had left off in 1942 and began producing one extraordinary image after another, simple yet elegant surreal images with free associations of imagery and text. More on Marcel Mariën

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 43

Maximilien Luce, 1858 - 1941

NU ASSIS/ SITTING NUDE, c. 1910

Oil on paper

38,6 x 30,2 cm; 15 1/4 x 11 7/8 in.

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Maximilien Luce (13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism. 

In 1872, the fourteen-year-old Luce became an apprentice for a wood-engraver. During his three-year xylography apprenticeship, he also took night classes in drawing. During this period, Luce started painting in oils. His art education continued as he attended drawing classes at the Gobelins tapestry factory.

Luce began work producing woodcut prints for various publications. He took additional art courses, at l'Académie Suisse, and also in the studio of portrait painter Carolus-Duran (1837–1917).

Maximilien Luce, 1858 - 1941

NU ASSIS/ SITTING NUDE, c. 1910

Oil on paper

38,6 x 30,2 cm; 15 1/4 x 11 7/8 in.

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Luce spent four years in the military, starting in 1879, serving in Brittany at Guingamp. The next year, he received a promotion to corporal, and he became friends with Alexandre Millerand, who, in 1920, assumed the office of President of France. 

Gausson and Cavallo-Péduzzi introduced Luce in about 1884 to the Divisionist technique developed by Georges Seurat. This influenced Luce to begin painting in the Pointillist style. In contrast to Seurat's detached manner, Luce's paintings were passionate portrayals of contemporary subjects, depicting the "violent effects of light". 

Luce exhibited in every show at Les Indépendants from 1887 until he died in 1941.

Luce depicted a diverse range of subjects in his works over a long career. He most frequently created landscapes, but his other works include portraits, still lifes, domestic scenes, such as bathers, and images of welders, rolling mill operators, and other laborers. More on Maximilien Luce

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01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 42

Kees van Dongen, 1877 - 1968

NU DEBOUT SUR FOND VERT ET ROSE/

NUDE STANDING ON GREEN BACKGROUND AND PINK, c.1935

Oil on canvas

65 x 50 cm; 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.

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Cornelis Theodorus Maria 'Kees' van Dongen (26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968) was a Dutch-French painter and one of the Fauves at the controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits.

Kees van Dongen was born in Delfshaven, a borough of Rotterdam. He was the second of four children in a middle-class family. In 1892, at age 16, Kees van Dongen started his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam During this period (1892–97), van Dongen frequented the Red Quarter seaport area, where he drew scenes of sailors and prostitutes. He met Augusta Preitinger at the Academy, a fellow painter.

Kees van Dongen, 1877 - 1968

NU DEBOUT SUR FOND VERT ET ROSE/

NUDE STANDING ON GREEN BACKGROUND AND PINK, c.1935

Oil on canvas

65 x 50 cm; 25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.

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In 1897, van Dongen lived in Paris for several months, where there was a large emigre community. Van Dongen began to exhibit in Paris, and participated in the controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition[4] along with Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Charles Camoin, and Jean Puy.

Van Dongen’s candid, colourful portrait style was immensely fashionable by the end of World War I, and thereafter it remained his main focus. The figure of a glamorous woman with large eyes and red lips became his archetype. More on Kees van Dongen

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03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 41

Bernard Dufour, 1922 - 2016

FEMME NUE, TROIS ARBRES, c. 1966

Oil on canvas

146 x 114,5 cm; 57 1/2 x 45 1/16 in.

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Dufour cannot paint anybody. He paints the woman he most desires among all the ones he sees. It cannot work without desire. He chooses to represent female nudes, but not any woman, she who touches him the most, his. Dufour speaks about bodies: the other's body. And by doing so, he speaks about the very body of painting, the one that takes shape on the canvas. It is also our own body when it projects itself in the anarchic space of desire and fantasy, far away from beautiful polished images and good manners. In this interlacing of colors and shapes, life unfolds in a disruptive chaos. More on this painting

Bernard Dufour, 1922 - 2016

NU DE DOS, FORÊT, FEUILLAGE, c. 1966

Oil on canvas

146 x 114,5 cm; 57 1/2 x 45 1/16 in

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Bernard Dufour (21 November 1922 – 21 July 2016) was a French painter. He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures.

Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering. During the German Occupation, he was pressed into war labour. He was sent to Germany with Alain Robbe-Grillet and there they met Claude Ollier. In the winter of 1944–45, he went to the University of Heidelberg and studied Eugène Delacroix and Stéphane Mallarmé. After the war he copied works of Michelangelo and Tintoretto in the Louvre.

His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Maeght in 1948, followed by exhibitions in the Jeanne Bucher gallery between 1951 and 1953. Motivated by these successes, he soon signed an exclusive contract with art dealer Pierre Loeb. In the later 1950s, he began to attract attention outside France; in 1959, he participated in the second documenta exhibition in Kassel.

Bernard Dufour, 1922 - 2016

NU, ARBRE, SOUCHE, c. 1966

oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

146 x 114,5 cm; 57 1/2 x 45 1/16 in.

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From 1960, he turned from abstract to figurative painting, initially self-portraits and mournful figures, later scandalous nudes. In 1961 he opened a studio in an old mill on the Aveyron River in Foissac, where he also lived. He took part in the Venice Biennale in 1964. From this time he formed enduring friendships with other writers of the literary avant garde. From the 1970s he worked in photography as well as painting, and wrote several volumes of artistic notes and memoirs.

La Belle Noiseuse, Jacques Rivette's 1991 film about an elderly artist, was partly inspired by Dufour, who was credited as "the hand of the artist" painting the picture at the heart of the film. In 1995, Dufour's wife Martine died of cancer. Dufour lived his last years in Villeneuve. More on Bernard Dufour

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01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 40

Moses Soyer, (American, 1899-1974) 

Seated Nude, c. 1955 

Oil on canvas 

24" x 18"

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Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Two of Soyer's brothers, Raphael (his identical twin) and Isaac were also painters. Soyer's wife, Ida, was a dancer, and dancers are a recurring subject in his paintings. Soyer studied art in New York, first at Cooper Union and later at the Ferrer Art School, where he studied under the Ashcan painters Robert Henri and George Bellows. He had his first solo exhibition in 1926 and began teaching art the following year at the Contemporary Art School and The New School. He died in the Chelsea Hotel in New York while painting dancer and choreographer Phoebe Neville. More on Moses Soyer

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 39

Robert Philipp, (American, 1895-1981) 

My Model, My Studio 

Oil on canvas 

16" x 20"

Private collection

Robert Philipp (February 2, 1895 – November 22, 1981) was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. He was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League of New York for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, and National Academician, Benjamin Franklin Fellow, Royal Society of Arts in London. He was married to model and fellow artist Rochelle ("Shelly") Post, who frequently posed for him until her death in 1971. His compositions and painting style have been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Philip won prizes in most of the important exhibitions of his time, and his paintings are in numerous museums and important private collections. More on Robert Philipp

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