04 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Evelyn Kalka, with footnotes # 101

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983)

Series: Portraits of Marie

Marie nude with pearls and heels against floral backdrop, looks to viewer, c. 1940s

Gelatin-silver print

4.5 x 2.75 inches, 11.4 x 7 cm

Private collection

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983)

Series: Portraits of Marie

Marie standing nude with pearls and heels, hand on hip, c. 1940s

Gelatin-silver print

4 x 2.75 inches, 10.2 x 7 cm

Private collection

In 1939 Eugene met the woman who would become his future wife and muse – Evelyn Kalka. She was 19, he was 29. In 1943 they married and Evelyn came to be known as “Marie,” a name she took on in honor of one of Eugene’s favorite aunts. 

In the early 1940s, after setting up a darkroom in his bathroom, he started to photograph his wife, Marie, at home. In Von Bruenchenhein’s pictures, she often sits against a floral backdrop, her breasts bared or her legs bent behind her in a schoolgirl posture. However Von Bruenchenhein was more interested in fantasy and play than in using the camera to capture any truth or nuance of his wife’s personality. More on Evelyn Kalka

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983)

Series: Portraits of Marie

Marie nude with pearls, legs to left, c. 1940s

Gelatin-silver print

7 x 5 inches, 17.8 x 12.7 cm

Private collection

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Over the course of fifty years, from the 1930s until his death in 1983, Von Bruenchenhein produced an expansive oeuvre of poetry, photography, painting, drawing and sculpture. His body of work includes over one thousand colorful, apocalyptic landscape paintings; hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones, ceramic and cast cement; pin-up style photos of his wife, Marie; plus dozens of notebooks filled with poetic and scientific musings. Never confined to one particular method or medium, Von Bruenchenhein continually used everyday, discarded objects to visually explore imagined past and future realities.

Von Bruenchenhein remained anonymous to the larger artistic community for the duration of his career. He had produced thousands of pieces of art within the confines of his home-turned-studio. Although Von Bruenchenhein's pieces remained out of sight, it is not for want of trying. In an effort to sell and exhibit his work, Von Bruenchenhein repeatedly approached local galleries, but to no avail. More on Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983)

Series: Portraits of Marie

Marie nude with pearls and heels against floral backdrop, looks to viewer, c. 1940s

Gelatin-silver print

4.5 x 2.75 inches, 11.4 x 7 cm

Private collection

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Claire Barnett's Rape of a Fair Country, with footnotes # 150

Claire Barnett

Rape of a Fair Country, c. 2016

Watercolor on paper

Private collection

Claire Barnett is a British artist noted particularly for her deeply personal interpretations of landscapes in and around her home in Dorset. She was born in Surrey and trained at Camberwell School of Art and The Art School, University of Brighton. Claire has exhibited widely, most notably at The Royal Academy. Her work is held in collections in London and New York. My painting moves beyond nature’s immediate appearance and evokes a state of mind: a sense of self in relation to place, its primordial history, and the wild, cyclical rhythms of the seasons and elements. Works consist of layers of paint, glue, inks and other materials, such as honeycomb and lace. I experiment to create tactile, undulating surfaces, which are visceral responses in which I aim to express the vitality of artist and subject. More on Claire Barnett

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05 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Georgia O'Keeffe, with footnotes # 100

Alfred Stieglitz, (1864–1946)

Detail; Georgia O'Keeffe, c. 1919

Platinum palladium print.

24.1 x 19.4 cm

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Alfred Stieglitz, (1864–1946)

Georgia O'Keeffe, c. 1919

Platinum palladium print.

24.1 x 19.4 cm

Private collection

The romance between Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe took on mythical dimensions. Stieglitz took revealing, nude portraits of O’Keeffe and put them on display at his gallery. The two became lovers, then, in 1924, man and wife. More on Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe

The series went well past the hundred pictures Stieglitz mentioned, and became one of the signature events in the progress of American art photography. The photographs were shown in galleries and museums and a selection of them were published in a book issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More on Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe

Alfred Stieglitz, (1864–1946)

Georgia O'Keeffe, c. 1919

Sepia photo

14 x 18

Private collection

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism"

Born in 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe received art training at the Art Institute of Chicago school (1905), the Art Students League of New York (1907–8), the University of Virginia (1912), and Columbia University’s Teachers College, New York (1914–16). She became an art teacher from 1911 to 1918. During this period, she produced a remarkable series of charcoal drawings that led her art—and her career—in a new direction. These daring works of 1915–16 orchestrated line, shape, and tone into abstract compositions. It was through these drawings that O’Keeffe came to the attention of the prominent photographer and New York gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz in January 1916. After supposedly exclaiming, “At last, a woman on paper!” he exhibited her drawings at the 291 gallery, where the works of many avant-garde European and American artists and photographers were introduced to the American public.

Alfred Stieglitz

Georgia O'Keeffe, c. 1918

Gelatin silver print

 22.9 × 15.3 cm (9 × 6 in.)

The National Gallery of Art

“There were nudes that might have been of several different people—sitting—standing—even standing upon a radiator against the window—that was difficult—radiators don’t intend you to stand on top of them” (Georgia O’Keeffe in Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz [1978]). More on this photograph

With Stieglitz's encouragement and promise of financial support, O’Keeffe abandoned teaching and arrived in New York in June 1918, to begin a career as an artist. From then until his death in 1946, Stieglitz vigorously promoted her work in twenty-two solo exhibitions and numerous group installations. The two lived together almost immediately, and were married in 1924. 

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)

Georgia O'Keeffe - Torso, c. 1931

Gelatin-silver print

Image height: 91mm, Image width: 240mm

Victoria and Albert Museum

Stieglitz saw his photographs of O'Keeffe as a composite portrait. Seen together, they explore themes of multiplicity, fragmentation, time and change, as well as O'Keeffe's personality, beauty and creativity. We might also read the portraits as a record of Stieglitz and O'Keeffe's love affair and of their remarkable creative synergy. More on this photograph

During the 1920s, O’Keeffe painted a series of architectural pictures that dramatically depict the soaring skyscrapers and aerial views of New York City. 

Toward the end of the decade, the strains of dealing with the New York art world, her growing boredom with Lake George, and her deteriorating relationship with Stieglitz took their toll on her physical and emotional health. In response, she made her first extended trip to New Mexico in 1929. It was a visit that had a lasting impact on her life, and an immediate effect on her work. Over the next twenty years, from 1929 to 1949, she made almost annual trips to New Mexico, staying up to six months there, painting in relative solitude, then returning to New York each winter to exhibit the new work at Stieglitz’s gallery. This pattern continued until she moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949.

The last two decades of the artist’s life were relatively unproductive as ill health and blindness hindered her ability to work. When she died in 1986 at age ninety-eight, her ashes were scattered over the New Mexico landscape she had loved for more than half a century. More on Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Seated Nude XI, c. 1917

Watercolor, Original Vintage Book Color Plate, Ready To Frame

7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches

Private collection

Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was instrumental in establishing photography as a recognized fine art form. Some of Steiglitz's best-known photographs are of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe (who would eventually become his wife), and in line with his belief that great photography “becomes more real than reality,” these close-up portraits convey as much about form as they do about her personality and their relationship. Stieglitz was feverishly devoted to his work and mission and produced thousands of editions in his lifetime, covering numerous themes that captured a period of rapid transition in American society. In 1905, he opened 291 Gallery in New York City to promote pioneering photographers and avant-garde European artists. Stieglitz achieved his goal to have photography shown alongside painting and, due to his efforts, is known as an important proponent of early modernism and not only as a promoter of photography. More on Alfred Stieglitz

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 98

Henry Strater, (1896 - 1987)

Happy Birthday Adam, c. 1971

Oil on canvas

50 x 30 inches

Private collection

Henry Strater came of age in the Lost Generation after the first World War.  He attended Princeton. He later went to Paris in the 1920s to study at the Academy Grande Chaumiere and with Edouard Vuillard.

Strater was a versatile painter  and his portraits, watercolors and other realistic works are or have been displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the Detroit Institute of Arts. Lehigh University Art Gallery and the Ogunquit (Maine) Museum of American Art, a small museum he built in the art colony where he had spent his summers since 1925. 

Strater was born in Louisville, Ky., he died at 91 in Palm Beach, Florida in 1987. More on Henry Strater

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 97

VERA ROCKLINE, (1896 – 1934, Russian)

NUDE WITH NECKLACE

Oil on canvas 

61.5 x 46.5 cm 

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, with footnotes # 140

Théodore Chassériau, (French, 1819-1856)

Deux femmes demi-nues, de dos (esquisse)/ Two half-naked women, back (sketch), c. 1848

Oil on canvas

15 7/8 x 12 ¾ in. (40.3 x 32.4 cm.)

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Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.

Chassériau was born in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). In December 1820 the family left Santo Domingo for Paris, where the young Chassériau soon showed precocious drawing skills. He was accepted into the studio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1830, at the age of eleven, and became the favorite pupil of the great classicist, who regarded him as his truest disciple.

After Ingres left Paris in 1834 to become director of the French Academy in Rome, Chassériau fell under the influence of Eugène Delacroix, whose brand of painterly colorism was anathema to Ingres. Chassériau's art has often been characterized as an attempt to reconcile the classicism of Ingres with the romanticism of Delacroix. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1836, and was awarded a third-place medal in the category of history painting. In 1840 Chassériau travelled to Rome and met with Ingres, whose bitterness at the direction his student's work was taking led to a decisive break.

In 1846 Chassériau made his first trip to Algeria. From sketches made on this and subsequent trips he painted such subjects as Arab Chiefs Visiting Their Vassals and Jewish Women on a Balcony...

After a period of ill health, exacerbated by his exhausting work on commissions for murals to decorate the Churches of Saint-Roch and Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Chassériau died at the age of 37 in Paris, on October 8, 1856. More on Théodore Chassériau

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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, Helmut Newton's Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus, with footnotes # 96

Helmut Newton

Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus, Arles, France, c. 1973

Silver Gelatin Print

20 1/10 × 16 1/10 in, 51.1 × 40.9 cm

Private collection

Tessa Charlotte Rampling OBE (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and muse.

She was cast in the role of Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl. She soon began making French and Italian arthouse films, most notably during this time in Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969) and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). She went on to star in Zardoz (1974), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), opposite Paul Newman in The Verdict (1982), Long Live Life (1984), Max, Mon Amour (1986), Angel Heart (1987) and The Wings of the Dove (1997). In 2002 she released an album of recordings in the style of cabaret, titled As A Woman.

In the 2000s, she became the muse of French director François Ozon, appearing in his films Under the Sand (2000), Swimming Pool (2003) and Angel (2007). On television, she is known for her role as Evelyn Vogel in Dexter (2013). In 2012 she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, both for her performance in the miniseries Restless. Other television roles include work in Broadchurch and London Spy, for the latter of which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. For her performance in the 2015 film 45 Years, she won the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress, the European Film Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2017, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for Hannah.

A four-time César Award nominee, she received an Honorary César in 2001 and France's Legion of Honour in 2002. She was made an OBE in 2000 for her services to the arts, and received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards. In 2015, she released her autobiography, which she wrote in French, titled Qui Je Suis, or Who I Am. She later worked on an English translation, which was published in March 2017. More on Charlotte Rampling

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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