03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Bert Stern with Kate Moss in 2009, with footnotes #202

Bert Stern

Kate Moss, c. 2009

Photograph

48 X 33 cm

Private collection

On sale for 3,900EUR in August 2023

Bert Stern

Nude Kate Moss, c. 2012

Photograph

49 x 33 cm

Private collection

On sale for 3,900EUR in August 2023

Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is a British model. Arriving towards the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fashion icon status. She is known for her waifish figure, and role in size zero fashion. Moss has had her own clothing range, has been involved in musical projects, and is also a contributing fashion editor for British Vogue. In 2012, she came second on the Forbes top-earning models list, with estimated earnings of $9.2 million in one year. The accolades she has received for modelling include the 2013 British Fashion Awards acknowledging her contribution to fashion over 25 years, while Time named her one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2007. More on Kate Moss

Bert Stern

Kate Moss, VOGUE Paris, c. 2001

Archival Pigmen

Private collection

Bert Stern (1929-2013) was a self-taught New York fashion photographer specializing in celebrity portraits. He also directed the documentary film Jazz on a Summer's Day, and is a photographer on Stanley Kubrick's Lolita set. During his career, he photographed Audrey Hepburn, Elyzabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Romy Schneider and Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Madonna, Kate Moss, but especially Marilyn Monroe, with whom he shot his series "The Last Sitting" for Vogue magazine in 1962. This shooting remains engraved in the memories, because it takes place only a few weeks before Marilyn's (mysterious) death. More on Bert Stern

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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Félix Vallotton's The Purple Hat, with footnotes #200

Félix Vallotton

The Purple Hat, c. 1907

Oil on canvas

81 x 65,5 cm.

Private collection

In darkly suggestive paintings and graphically spare prints, Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) chronicled fin de siècle Paris like no other artist of his generation. He lampooned the bourgeoisie with acerbic wit and laid bare the urban turmoil of a society in flux. 

Félix Vallotton

JEUNE FEMME DRAPÉE DANS UNE ÉCHARPE VERTE, 1924

Oil on canvas

80x65 cm

Private collection

Félix Vallotton

TORSO DE FEMME NUE, DE FACE, 1907 TORSO OF A NUDE, c. 1907

Oil on canvas

81 x 65 cm

Private collection

The sitter is presumably the wife of the Russian collector Georges Hasen, whom Félix Vallotton captured in numerous of his nudes. The present painting can be considered one of the best works of this genre. The backdrop to the scenery is the artist's studio, where most of the nudes were created from sketches. More on this painting

FELIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

Nu à plat ventre sur le sable, c. 1924

Oil on canvas

33 x 55 cm

Private collection

Sold for CHF 396,500 in Sep 2018

Félix Edouard Vallotton

Nude, c. 1911

Oil on canvas

88.9 × 116.9 cm (35 × 46 in.)

The Art Institute of Chicago (Illinois)

In order to show the heat that is bearing down upon this young woman, Félix Vallotton used the pointillism technique, a method of painting that enabled him to depict the vibration of air that has been warmed by the sun. This establishes a contrast to the evenly-painted sand upon which the girl is lying. More on this painting

Félix Vallotton  (1865–1925)

Nu allongé sur un tapis rouge, c. 1909

Oil on canvas

height: 73 cm (28.7 in); width: 100 cm (39.3 in)

Musée du Petit Palais

Félix Édouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style.

His earliest paintings were influenced by Holbein and Ingres. He developed a simpler style during his association with Les Nabis during the 1890s, and produced woodcuts which brought him international recognition. Characterized by broad masses of black and white with minimal detail, they include street scenes, bathers, portraits, and a series of ten interiors titled Intimités (Intimacies) that portray charged domestic encounters between men and women. He produced few prints after 1901, and concentrated instead on painting. His later paintings include highly finished portraits and nudes, and landscapes painted from memory.

He was also active as a writer. He published art criticism during the 1890s, and his novel La Vie meurtrière (The Murderous Life) was published posthumously. More on Félix Édouard Vallotton

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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, William Wallace Gilchrist's Morning vs Night, with footnotes #201

William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr., American (1879-1926)

Young Lady Reading

Oil on board

14 x 10 3/4

Private collection

Estimated for $7,000 USD - $10,000 USD October 2014

William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr., American, 1879-1926

Nude, 1919

Oil on cradled board

18 1/4 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm)

Villa Flora

Sold for  $5,312.5 USD in March 2020

William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr., American, 1879-1926, gained notoriety as a portrait painter who captured introspective moments of stillness in his subjects. His genre and landscape scenes, too, excelled in creating serene and deeply personal images of his surroundings. Gilchrist commonly used family members as models, capturing the idyllic calm of a home environment. He expressed a deep desire to preserve cherished everyday events for future generations.

Gilchrist, born 1879, was raised in a prominent family in Philadelphia. Showing artistic talent from an early age, Gilchrist excelled in working with watercolors. Gilchrist pursued his formal studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. He then continued his education abroad, with four years spent in Munich, Paris, and London.

He was a member of the Philadelphia Art Club, the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, and the Salmagundi Club. He was awarded the Third Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy of Design in 1908, followed by a gold medal from the Washington, D.C. Society of Artists in 1914, and a silver medal at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926. His work drew high praise at the Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco, leading to numerous postcards and reproductions. More on William Wallace Gilchrist

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01 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Attributed to Charles Chaplin's Daydreaming, with footnotes #199

Attributed to Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891)

Detail; Daydreaming

Oil on canvas

73.7 x 49.2cm (29 x 19 3/8in)

Private collection

Attributed to Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891)

Daydreaming

Oil on canvas

73.7 x 49.2cm (29 x 19 3/8in)

Private collection

Sold for £3,187.50 in May 2020

Charles Joshua Chaplin (8 June 1825 – 30 January 1891) was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He was an accomplished artist mastering different techniques such as pastels, lithography, watercolor, chalk, oil painting and etching. He was best known for his elegant portraits of young women.

Charles Chaplin spent his whole life in France, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1886. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1840, and took private lessons in the studio of Michel Martin Drolling, whose apprentices included Paul Baudry, Jules Breton and Jean-Jacques Henner. Later he also taught at the École des Beaux-Arts.

In 1845 he entered the Salon de Paris, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, as a portrait and landscape painter with the painting Portrait of the Artist's Mother. Chaplin conducted art classes specifically for women at his studio, including Marie Joséphine Nicolas. The American artist Mary Cassatt, the French artist Louise Abbéma and the English artist Louise Jopling were among Chaplin's students. His son Arthur Chaplin was also a painter. Chaplin died on 30 January 1891 in, aged 65, Paris. More on Charles Joshua Chaplin

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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Michel Comte's Untitled, 1991, with footnotes #198

Tom Wesselmann, (1931-2004)
Monica and Matisse Interior with Phonograph (3-D), c. 88/93
Oil on cut-out aluminum
71 x 47 x 4 in. (180.3 x 119.4 x 10.2 cm.)
Private collection

Sold for USD 200,000 in March 2020

Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera.

Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he learned—then taught—aerial photography interpretation, and began to draw cartoons about his experiences. Upon his return to his hometown of Cincinnati, he completed a BA in psychology at the University of Cincinnati and began taking classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. In fall 1956, he moved to New York City to study art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. At Cooper Union, he met Claire Selley, who would become his wife and lifelong muse. 

Living in Brooklyn, Wesselmann supported himself by selling cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post, “gag” magazines, and advertising agencies. In the late 1950s, he cofounded the Judson Gallery in the West Village with Marc Ratliff and Jim Dine. After completing his studies at Cooper Union, Wesselmann spent three years teaching high school art and math. During the evening, he continued to expand his own artistic practice, making small portrait collages. 

Wesselmann is highly regarded for his Great American Nude series (1961–73), which combines sensual depictions of the female figure with references to art history and popular culture. Many of these lounging female subjects were painted in patriotic red, white, and blue. In the late 1960s Wesselmann created close-up views of the nude in the Bedroom Paintings (1968–83). More on Tom Wesselmann

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