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Boundolibe
Marie-Noëlle Deverre
Sculpture - 25 x 150 x 100 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 59.1 x 39.4 inch
$1,682
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Lying Nude with Signals 1
Leo Guida
Painting - 30 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,065
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Lying Nude with Signals 1
Leo Guida
Painting - 30 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,233
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Don't Tell Mamma #6
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
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Blue Bananas
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 55 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
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Seated Nude in Profile
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 73 x 53 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 20.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,177
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She Turns to Face the Sun
Manny Woodard
Sculpture - 31 x 10 x 11 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 3.9 x 4.3 inch
$729
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Dancing with my Handbag
Manny Woodard
Sculpture - 20 x 14 x 8 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 5.5 x 3.1 inch
$663
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Eclipse, Melancholy serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
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Nu 31
Thomas Witte
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$897
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Nu 30
Thomas Witte
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$897
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Ce plaisir est le mien (2)
Reno
Sculpture - 22 x 26 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 10.2 x 5.9 inch
$1,110
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Lingerie 1 - The womb
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 20 x 27 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
$960
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Nude
Albert Fernand-Renault
Fine Art Drawings - 44.5 x 60.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.5 x 23.8 x 0 inch
$561
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Nude
Albert Fernand-Renault
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 63 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 24.8 x 0 inch
$729
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Collection Purity - Un Anonyme Nu Dans Le Salon - HB1353
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$841
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Cinq fois à terre, six fois debout
Sange
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,099
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L'ancienne machine à laver - Portrait de femme
Henry Prost
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
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La desnudez del multiverso
Josep Garcia Marsal
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
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Nu 27
Thomas Witte
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$897
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H0427 – The crusher
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$561
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F0488 – The surprising
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$841 $673
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F0564 – The dauntless
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,018
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F0500 – The dancer
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,018
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H0430 – The last one
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,018
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F0547 - The scared
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,345
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F0555 - The duchess
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,345
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Danseur
Martine Lingelser-Schmidt
Sculpture - 14 x 22 x 9 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 8.7 x 3.5 inch
$1,121
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Acrobate
Martine Lingelser-Schmidt
Sculpture - 30 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,121
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Voltagabbana en Marbre de Carrare
Tiziano Sculpteur
Sculpture - 72 x 36 x 26 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 14.2 x 10.2 inch
$14,574
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Guerrière avec boule à paillettes
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 22 x 22 x 1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 8.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,065
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PS 238 Le temps des jonquilles
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,682 $1,446
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Entrée en matière – Je ne me souviens plus des prénoms
Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch
Painting - 56 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 22 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
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PS 233 La fauve s'habille en léopard - French school
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
$1,906 $1,639
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Sculpture de Vénus
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
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Marilyn Pink Roses Large
Bert Stern
Photography - 102 x 97 cm Photography - 40.2 x 38.2 inch
$31,391
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No78 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$1,654
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Angelique
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 61 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$1,654
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No57 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91.4 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$1,654
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Marche des Méréides
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 68 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$1,654
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Modèle black endormi
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 55 x 46 x 5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 2 inch
$1,382
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Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,119
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A moment in heaven
Linde Ergo
Sculpture - 160 x 45 x 60 cm Sculpture - 63 x 17.7 x 23.6 inch
$35,875
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Nude black
Maciej Woltman
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,457
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Woman and flowers
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$90
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Engulfment Cartagena 1
Javier Rey
Photography - 110 x 125 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 49.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,950
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Inner silence (big)
Linde Ergo
Sculpture - 55 x 60 x 74 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 23.6 x 29.1 inch
$12,276
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Tender is the night
Linde Ergo
Sculpture - 40 x 22 x 35 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 8.7 x 13.8 inch
$7,736
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Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.