01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Miroslava Zaharieva's Body III, with footnotes # 179

Miroslava Zaharieva, Bulgaria

Body III

Oil on canvas

39.4 W x 31.5 H x 1 in

Private collection

Offered for sale at C$1,993 in May 2023

Miroslava Zaharieva is an academic and self-expression artist. She works in various styles: still life, landscape, portrait, figural and non-figural compositions using watercolours, oil, tempera and acrylic colours. Traditional techniques of painting and experimentation by mixing different techniques together. Collage works with various materials: paper, textile, leather and synthetics. Applied arts experience in hand drawing and stamping of textiles (silk, linen, cotton, synthetics).

Born on May 6th 1982 at Sofia, Bulgaria, Miroslava Graduated on M.A. course in Painting at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a member of Union of Bulgarian Artists since 2012. She is also a member of AIAP / IAA – UNESCO. More on Miroslava Zaharieva

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04 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, CHARLES CAMOIN'S FEMME NUE, with footnotes # 178

Charles Camoin, (1879 - 1965)

DETAIL; FEMME NUE ENDORMIE/ SLEEPING NAKED WOMAN, c. 1924

Oil on canvas

23½ by 32 in. (60 by 81 cm)

Private collection

Charles Camoin, (1879 - 1965)

FEMME NUE ENDORMIE/ SLEEPING NAKED WOMAN, c. 1924

Oil on canvas

23½ by 32 in. (60 by 81 cm)

Private collection

Sold for 8,125 USD in December 2019

Charles Camoin

Nu de femme

Oil on canvas

24 x 33 cm

Private collection

Charles Camoin, 1879 - 1965

Brune alongée, circa 1930

Oil on canvas

38.2 by 77.3cm., 15 by 30⅜in.

Private collection 

Sold for 10,080 GBP in March 2021

Charles Camoin

Nu couché au paravent fleuri/ Reclining nude with flowery screen, c. 1922

Oil on canvas

18 by 25 1/2 in., 45.7 by 64.7 cm

Private collection

Sold for 50,000 USD in November 2008

Charles Camoin (23 September 1879 – 20 May 1965) was a French expressionist landscape painter associated with the Fauves.

Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves (meaning "the wild beasts") for their wild, expressionist-like use of color. Camoin always remained close to Matisse. He painted a portrait of Matisse, which is in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Museum in Paris.

Charles Camoin's works have been widely shown in France and are in such major collections as the Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris in addition to the Centre Georges Pompidou and many of the French regional museums. In 1955, he was awarded the Prix du President de la Republique at the Biennale of Menton. He died in Paris on 20 May 1965. More on Charles Camoin

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, Marià Fortuny's Odalisque, with footnotes # 54

Marià Fortuny, (1838–1874)

Detail; The Odalisque, c. 1861

Oil on cardboard

Height: 569 mm (22.40 ″); Width: 810 mm (31.88 ″)

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Marià Fortuny, (1838–1874)

The Odalisque, c. 1861

Oil on cardboard

Height: 569 mm (22.40 ″); Width: 810 mm (31.88 ″)

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 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Julio Romero de Torres' La esclava/ The slave, with footnotes # 177

Julio Romero de Torres, (Spanish, 1880–1930)

Detail; La esclava/ The slave, ca. 1925–1929

Oil and tempera on canvas

83.8 x 62.2 cm. (33 x 24.5 in.)

Private collection

Julio Romero de Torres, (Spanish, 1880–1930)Title:

La esclava/ The slave, ca. 1925–1929

Oil and tempera on canvas

83.8 x 62.2 cm. (33 x 24.5 in.)

Private collection

Sold for GBP 299,250 on 11 Jul 2019

The sitter for the present work was the actress Elena Pardo. A regular performer at the Romea theater in Madrid, Elena was Romero de Torre’s preferred model during the 1920s. Elena’s figure embodied to perfection the archetype that Coco Chanel promoted internationally – a modern woman with a greased bob hairstyle ‘comme les garcons’.

The present work was one of twenty-seven works selected by the artists for his retrospective exhibition celebrated in the Cordoba Pavilion at the Iberoamaricana fair in Seville in 1930. More on this painting

Julio Romero de Torres (9 November 1874 – 10 May 1930) was a Spanish painter. He was born and died in Córdoba, Spain, where he lived most of his life. Julio learned about art from his father who was the director, curator and founder of Córdoba's Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes and an impressionist painter. He took an interest in art at a young age and started studying at the School of Fine Arts when he was 10. He went to Madrid to work and study in 1906.

He also travelled all over Europe to study and he picked up a symbolist style, for which he is best known. A museum dedicated to the work of de Torres is situated at Plaza del Potro, Cordoba. More on Julio Romero de Torres

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08 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Vera Rockline's Nudes asleep, with footnotes # 176

Vera Rockline, (1896 - 1934)

Detail; Nude asleep

Oil on canvas

60 x 51 cm

Private collection

Vera Rockline, (1896 - 1934)

Nude asleep

Oil on canvas

60 x 51 cm

Private collection

Vera Rockline , 1896-1934

Reclining nude

Oil on canvas

81 by 116.5cm., 32 by 45 3/4 in.

Private collection

Vera Rockline , 1896-1934

Nu

Oil on canvas; signed lower right

15 5/16 x 21 5/8 in.

Private collection

Vera Rockline

Sleeping Nude

Oil on canvas

54.7х45.8

Private collection

Vera Rockline

Nude

Oil on canvas

54.5х73

Private collection

Vera Rockline

Sleeping Nude

Oil on canvas

60.5х73

Private collection

Vera Rockline

Sleeping Nude

Oil on canvas

53.5 x 70 cm

Private collection

Attributed to Vera Rockline (1896-1934)

Sleeping Nude

Oil on canvas

32"x26"

Private collection 

Véra Rockline (1896 - 4 April 1934) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. Rockline started her career in Moscow, studying in the studio of Ilya Mashkov, who considered her one of his most brilliant students. In 1918 she became an apprentice at Aleksandra Ekster's studio in Kiev, Ukraine. Ekster, who personally knew Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire had great influence on Rockline's initial style, also inspiring her creative and free painting spirit.

In 1918 and 1919, she exhibited at the 24th Moscow Artists Association Exposition, and in other gallery and association exhibitions. Also in 1918, she married a Mr.Rokhlin, from whom she adopted his name. In 1919 she left Russia, spending two years in Tbilisi and in 1921 she immigrated to France, where she eventually obtained French citizenship. In 1922, they moved to Paris, where there were a large Russian community, of which Rockline became part, living near Montmartre.

In 1922, Rockline exhibited paintings in the Russian section of the Salon d'Automne, at the Salon des Independants and at the Salon Tuileries, where she had a positive reception from media and visitors. Some of her paintings won prizes in the expositions. After styling herself on Cubism and Impressionism, Rockline started to develop her own style, "something between Courbet and Renoir", according to the critics from L’Art et les Artistes" magazine'.

In 1927, she became member of Salon d’Automne Society, a privileged position and became independent of her husband, probably divorcing him and moved to Montparnasse. Her financial independence coincided with a change in her art style. Her works became lighter, free, closer to Impressionism. 

In June 2008, her painting Card Players (1919) was sold in an auction at Christie's, in London, for 2 million pounds. More on Véra Rockline

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, August Macke's Badende Frauen/ Bathing Women, with footnotes # 175

August Macke, (1887-1914)

Badende Frauen/ Bathing Women, c. 1913

Oil on canvas

102 x 72.5 cm. (40 1/8 x 28 3/8 in.)

Private collection

August Macke, (born January 3, 1887, Meschede, Germany—died September 26, 1914, Perthes-les-Hurlus, France), German painter who was a leader of Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”), an influential group of Expressionist artists.

Macke studied at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1904 to 1906. During his first trip to Paris in 1907 he was profoundly influenced by the work of the Impressionist painters, and he began to emulate their style. He studied in Berlin with the German painter Lovis Corinth. Macke made frequent trips to Paris between 1907 and 1912, absorbing various artistic influences which he ultimately combined into a very personal style.

Macke discovered the work of Henri Matisse and the other Fauve artists while visiting Paris in 1909; this convinced Macke to use brighter, less-naturalistic colours, applied in broad brushstrokes. In 1911 Macke joined Der Blaue Reiter. Macke avoided the often violent style of his fellow Expressionists, and he preferred human subjects to the animals that Marc and Kandinsky portrayed. Macke attempted to combine the tradition of contemporary French painting—its attention to colour and form—with the strong sentiment of German art.

In 1912 Macke met the French painter Robert Delaunay. Subsequently, Macke introduced a Cubist analysis of form into his own paintings. Throughout the evolution of his style, Macke generally remained faithful to Impressionist subject matter, portraying contemporary scenes of urban leisure.

In 1914 Macke traveled with the Swiss painter Paul Klee to Tunis, Tunisia, where Macke painted a series of works that place the subject upon a grid of various pure colours. The emphasis on colour in these paintings, which are some of his most widely admired works, demonstrate the  effect that Delaunay’s Orphic Cubism had upon him. Macke was killed in action in World War I. More on August Macke

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