01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 82

Emile Henri Bernard, (Lille 1868 - 1941 Paris) 

Le Repos à Tonnerre, c. 1904

Oil on canvas. 

120 x 150 cm.

Private collection

Tonnerre is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, seen in through the window in the background.

Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. He is also associated with Cloisonnism and Synthetism, two late 19th-century art movements. Less known is Bernard's literary work, comprising plays, poetry, and art criticism as well as art historical statements that contain first hand information on the crucial period of modern art to which Bernard had contributed. More on Émile Henri Bernard

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 81

Lee Crum, United States

The Elephant Girl

Archival toned carbon pigment print

 24 W x 24 H x 1 in

Private collection

"I do not support the incarceration or abuse of any animal and most of all the Elephant. 
Elephants are endangered and their well being and preservation must be considered a global priority 

This image was taken in a zoo in 1983, when advocacy and education for the preservation of elephants was taking root in the US. 

A generous portion of your purchase will go toward education and preservation of elephants via donation at: savetheelephants.org" Lee Crum

Lee Crum grew up in Arkansas. While he was a student at The University of Arkansas, he picked up a job shooting photographs for Little Rock’s daily newspaper. He had never taken a photography class, but decided to purchase a camera. After spending three years shooting in Arkansas, Lee was offered another job at a newspaper in New Orleans. Soon he began taking freelance editorial jobs to supplement his newspaper gig. It wasn’t long before Lee had a steady stream of editorial shoots lined up with big-name outlets like Sports Illustrated. The commercial industry quickly recognized Lee’s talent. 

Lee experienced a prolific career as a commercial photographer in New Orleans. But all the while, he continued to produce his own personal series of photographs, seeking out the people and places often overlooked by others. 

In 2005, Lee experienced a big blow: Hurricane Katrina. His house and studio suffered significant damage, forcing him and his family to relocate to Florida and then to Nashville. The move prompted a conceptual shift in Lee’s work. Removed from the city where he began a booming editorial career, he was forced to find a new method for making work. He began experimenting with different types of printing and toyed with tintypes. He turned his focus to different subject matter.

Lee has continued developing tintypes and ambrotypes. Though he has evolved his process, his new prints still generate the same tactile appeal as his earliest portraits. “For the last eight-plus years, I have turned my focus to still life work." More on Lee Crum

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 80

David Bromley, (born 1960) 

Tania, c. 2007 

Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas 

152 x 122cm 

Private collection

David Bromley, (born 1960). David Bromley’s artworks have two clear focal points – the Boys Own adventure project and the Female Nude series. Born in Sheffield, England, in 1960, Bromley came to Australia in 1964. He began his career in Adelaide as a potter, but eventually turned to painting. He takes inspiration from childhood books, popular culture and artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Glen Baxter.

Bromley focuses on the physical and emotional journey of life’s travels, using the imagery of the Boys Own comic culture to paint vivid, passionate pictures of the spills and thrills of childhood. He centres on the adolescent years where he believes life is at its most intense and its demands are at their strongest.

Bromley’s nudes portray the female form in contemporary fashion, as seen in the media, and this contrast to his other work serves as a breath of fresh air. He makes use of layering and texturing techniques while employing mediums such as metallic paint and leaf combined with black outlines on bold colours. He says the creation of two such dissimilar themes helps to keep his approach fresh.

Since the mid-1980s, Bromley has had more than  30 solo exhibitions nationally as well exhibiting regularly throughout Europe, the UK, South Africa, Asia and the US. More on David Bromley

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 79

Helmut Newton, German-Australian, 1920–2004

Sie Kommen/ They Come, (Pair Dressed and Nude), c. 1981

Silver Gelatin Print

24 × 20 in, 61 × 50.8 cm

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.

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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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 78

John Baldessari (b. 1931)

Untitled

Oil on Canvas

26 x 22 in

Private collection

John Anthony Baldessari, (born June 17, 1931, National City, California, U.S.), American artist whose work in altered and adjusted photographic imagery and video were central to the development of conceptual art in the United States.

Baldessari received a B.A. at San Diego State College (SDSC; now San Diego State University) in 1953 and attended the University of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles before receiving a master’s degree from SDSC in 1957. Though he originally intended to be an art critic, he instead became a central figure in the growth of Los Angeles as a major art centre. Baldessari taught at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia from 1970 to 1988. Thereafter he joined the art faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, where (1996–2007) he taught many students who went on to become successful artists.

Initially Baldessari worked with what has been called the “phototext canvas,” words painted on a canvas. His interest in language-based art led him to create a great variety of works, all in some combination of words, still images, and video. In the 1970s he made several deadpan absurd videos, including, for example, one in which he “sings” several sentences by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt regarding art  and another in which he “teaches a plant the alphabet”. He is perhaps best known for his works juxtaposing found photographs such as film stills, taking them out of their original context and rearranging their articulation and often including words or bits of sentences. His examination of the ambiguities and frailties of photographic communication exposed the range of ways in which photographic images could be organized and “read.” His work both undercut and reinforced the procedures of perception. In the 1980s he became well known for his manipulation of found photographs on which he placed coloured circle stickers over people’s faces. In doing so, he hoped to compel the viewer to consider more carefully the other elements in the image.

In the 21st century Baldessari continues to play with perception with a series titled Noses & Ears, Etc., in which he isolated noses and ears in photographs of people and painted over the rest of the faces with bright colours. Later iterations of the series featured isolated feet, hands, elbows, foreheads, and eyebrows. As did his earlier photocollages, those works challenge the viewer to fill in what was edited out by the artist.. More on John Anthony Baldessari

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 77

Alvin Booth (British, b. 1959)

Untitled (Female Nude), New York City, 1995

Gelatin silver

13-1/8 x 10 inches (33.3 x 25.4 cm)

Private collection

Alvin Booth is a New York based artist, originally from Hull, England.

His work revels both in the intrinsic beauty of the human form, and in the mutations of that beauty. Using the body’s malleability and gravity as a palate, Booth creates a landscape that is at times attractively familiar and at times seductively surreal.

Booth’s photographs use the nude as a point of departure. Bodies are pulled, folded, sheathed, multiplied and wrapped to produce images that prove the body capable of being erotically charged as well as playfully comic.

A recent shift to more sculptural work builds on the nontraditional representations of the nude that began as photographs. Booth’s three-dimensional work embraces even more experimental and evocative materials. Silicone, light, 3D braille printing, sensors and even scent are utilized to create new interpretations of the body. More on Alvin Booth

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 76

Fabio Mauri, (1926 - 2009)

Jewish, c. 1981

Offset print 

cm 71x50,3

Private collection

The symbol is branded along with a number of marks of racial discrimination.

The artistic expression of these works with the horrific reality which is evoked. Judaism has an explicit and radical ideological connotation, with a strong accent not only on the negative aspects of Nazi German, but also on the entire European culture That, for enigmatic, almost mysterious historical Reasons That still require an in -depth analysis, did not react strongly nor promptly. (Dora Aceto)

Fabio Mauri was born in Rome in 1926. His early youth was marked by the events of war and Fascism – traumas and horrors that would profoundly impact and influence the artist’s life and work. His parents were giants of Italy’s publishing industry. Raised among writers and painters, it was natural that Mauri would befriend intellectuals in both artistic and cultural circles of Italy’s new avant-garde, among them.

First emerging in the late-fifties, Fabio Mauri (1926 – 2009) developed the ideas for his work in the context of television and cinema, which from 1954 became a part of everyday cultural life. The projected image and the screen were central motifs that defined his oeuvre. Connecting themes and ideas of the past to the present, his work injects within itself a notion of ethical or social responsibility that causes the spectator to critically examine his experience of ‘the real’. Mauri’s artistic career remains as varied and diverse as the activities in which he engaged. For nearly two decades, he worked for the publisher Bompiani, from 1957 to 1975, directing its headquarters in Milan and Rome. Along with Umberto Eco and Edoardo Sanguineti, he founded the magazine ‘Quindici’ (1967) and the magazine for arts criticism, ‘La citta di Riga’ in 1976. An artist, playwright, publisher, critic and professor for over twenty years, Fabio Mauri’s wide-ranging oeuvre cannot be easily defined. Highly innovative and active in Italy’s avant-garde, much of his work, however, remained on the periphery of the parallel artistic movements of the time, such as Arte Povera and Pop Art. More on Fabio Mauri

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 75

Renato Guttuso, (1912 - 1987)

Partigiana iugoslava/ Yugoslav Partisan, c. 1952

Indian ink and watercolor on laid paper on canvas

71 x 50 cm

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The Yugoslav Partisans, or the National Liberation Army, officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, was the Communist-led resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.

It is considered to be Europe's most effective anti-Axis resistance movement during World War II, often compared to the Polish resistance movement, albeit the latter was a mostly non-communist autonomous movement. The Yugoslav Resistance was led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia during World War II. Its commander was Marshal Josip Broz Tito. More on The Yugoslav Partisans

Renato Guttuso (26 December 1912 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter. His best-known works include Flight from Etna (1938–39), Crucifixion (1941) and La Vucciria (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre and did illustrations for books. Those for Elizabeth David’s Italian Food (1954), introduced him to many in the English-speaking world. A fierce anti-Fascist, "he developed out of Expressionism and the harsh light of his native land to paint landscapes and social commentary."

He was born in Bagheria, near Palermo in Sicily, but from 1937 lived and worked largely in Rome. In his youth he joined the Gruppo universitario fascista, but later he became an anti-fascist and atheist. He joined the banned Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1940 and left Rome to become an active participant in the partisan struggle from 1943. He was also an opponent to the Mafia. In 1972 Guttuso was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. In 1976 he was elected to the Italian Senate as a PCI representative for the Sicilian constituency of Sciacca.

Guttuso became a member of an artistic movement named "Corrente". The movement stood for free and open attitudes, in opposition to the official culture, and chose a strong anti-fascist position in thematic choices through the years of the Spanish Civil War.

Mimise Dotti-Guttuso died on 6 October 1986. Guttuso was soon to follow his wife. He died in Rome of lung cancer at the age of 75 on 18 January 1987. On his deathbed, he allegedly embraced again the Christian faith with which he had been critical. However, there are doubts as to what really happened—in his last months, when he was bedridden, a circle of politicians and priests excluded his oldest friends from his villa. He donated many of his works to his hometown Bagheria, which are now housed in the museum of the Villa Cattolica. More on Renato Guttuso

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 74

Lev Tchistovsky, 1902-1969

Reclining Nude

Watercolour over pencil on paper

37.5 by 53cm, 14¾ by 20¾in.

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Lev Tchistovsky (1902-1969) was a Russian figurative painter specialised in feminine nudes. He first trained at the Fine Art School in Saint-Petersbourg, where he was a pupil of Savinsky and Eberling. Laureate of his school, he left USSR in 1925 and took classes at the Fine Arts School in Roma and after in Florence.

He met Irena Klestova in Venice, at the end of the twenties. She was also a pupil at the Saint-Petersbourg’s Fine Arts School, and she was already exhibiting her paintings at the Salon des Independants in Paris. Lev Tchistovsky settled in Paris in Montparnasse’s district and married Irena. In his studio on Impasse du Rouet, he rubbed shoulders with Andre Breton and Tamara de Lempicka.

Member of the Salon des Independants in 1930, Lev Tchistovsky was exhibiting there regularly. His portraits and nude figures constituted the most of his abundant production. The classic realism of his works depicted erotism and sensuality of the women of his time.

During his whole career, he was inspired by Mythology that will give him a great inspiration. Passionate by icons, Lev Tchistovsky was preparing, just before he died, a publication about icons technique.

He died in 1969, in his house in Cénevières in the Lot French department. His wife gave a lot of his paintings to the Urbain Cabrol local Museum. There are many of his art works in the Ermitage Museum in Saint Petersbourg. Robert Maxwell, magnate of the press, also bought some of his paintings. More on Lev Tchistovsky

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 73

Jiang Nan, (Chinese, B. 1977)

Untitled

Oil on canvas

35.5" x 23.5"

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Jiang Nan: Born in 1977 in China’s Jiangsu Province, Lu Xinjian began weaving himself into the art world through the outlet of design, earning a degree from the Computer Graphic Design Department of Nanjing Arts Institute in China in 2000, and holding a teaching position at the College of Arts and Design at Yeungnam University in South Korea before conducting postgraduate work at the Design Academy Eindhoven and receiving an MFA from the Frank Mohr Institute at Hanze University in the Netherlands in 2006. The morph in Lu’s aesthetic came after choosing to leave his home in China to live abroad, where his artistic experimentation began, while his vigorous study of artists such as Mondrian, Picasso, Pollock and Haring lead him to discover new techniques, visual solutions and enlivened inspiration. After completing his MFA in Groningen, he remained there under the mentorship of Petri Leijdekkers, founder of the Frank Mohr Institute, and became captivated with the satellite technology of Google Earth. Using choice cities from Google Earth, a cutting plotter, felt tip pens and acrylic paint, Lu seamlessly combines his mastery of design with his artistic vision. Lu shares his conception of a city as a twofold experience: the collision of the macro, far removed aspect one can achieve from an elevated perspective, with the micro, minute details of areas that one could tease out upon close inspection. More on Jiang Nan

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