"Nude Male Bathers, " 1930s Watercolor Painting of Nude Figures, Blue & Tan

Painted by Wilmot Heitland, one of America's great watercolorists in the 1930s, this sun-drenched depiction of a native Dominican, nude and stepping toward a pool of water, captures ...

One of the most stunning and monumental depictions of male nude figures -- and male athletes -- ever accomplished in the Modern era, this large painting shows five nude rowers, relaxed and conversational, as they hold their oars and await the next round of competition. The figures are shown with flushed, ruddy complexions, contrasting with the fresh green of the grass and trees surrounding them. The artist, James Stroudley, presents his rowers as consummate modern British men...

Drenched in rich color and somehow both modern and classical, this scene of nude male figures is presented as a frieze of men along a horizontal plane -- as if they are peopling a mu...

An extraordinary example of Art Deco painting with allegorical meaning -- like so many murals painted in the 1920s and 1930s -- this large work by William L'Engle depicts five nude male figures laboring in the field, symbolizing life in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A Black male figure in the foreground is planting crops, while two other figures in the distance are pulling a rope, perhaps alluding to fishing boats tied up at the dock, while another nude seems to be sinking into sleep beneath a pier -- all with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the background. L'Engle called this "The Five Josephs," perhaps referring to Joseph of Arimathea and other figures in the New Testament. William L'Engle was a towering figure in the Provincetown art colony, and was extremely well connected with America's artistic elite, starting with his trip to Europe as a young man with Waldo Pierce and George Biddle. Over time, William and his life Lucy became close to a wide range of important figures in painting, theater and the arts, including Charles Hawthorne, Eugene O'Neill, Gerrit Beneker, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, William and Marguerite Zorach, Edna St. Vincent-Millay, Charles Demuth, Childe Hassam, George Biddle, Edwin Dickinson...

Pale and enigmatic, this lovely modern painting of three male nude bathers -- and a fourth in the distance -- on the sandy shore of a mountainous lake was painted by Ernest Smith. Smith is known for his figural paintings in Australia...

Suffused with the rich, subdued colors of the WPA period, this painting by Maryland artist Larry Rodda depicts a male and female nude couple sitting on a grassy spot overlooking an a...

French nude painting (oil on canvas) with original frame signed Maubri.

Wilhelm Christens - female nude 64cm x 42cm (frame excluded) - oil on canvas applied to rigid cardboard 1920s Christens, Wilhelm (1878 Düsseldorf - 1964) He attended the Karl...

Great Italian artist Francesco Galante wonderful oil on round canvas painting Modern art Nude of a Seated Woman signed lower left by Francesco Galante. Brass label with name and date of birth and death of the artist. This painting, never before on the market, comes from a private collection and is beautified by an impressive antique frame in gilded wood, in almost perfect condition. Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts. FRANCESCO GALANTE Born in Margherita di Savoia He soon moved to Naples where he attended the institute of fine arts. He was a pupil of Michele Cammarano and Vincenzo Volpe and student, collaborated with various Neapolitan newspapers as an illustrator. Even in his painting activity, which he started in parallel with his graphic work, Francesco Galante. However, this tendency soon came to coexist with a substantial predilection for an intimism of atmospheres, themes and decorative cues. Francesco Galante's culture in these years did not differ from that common to many artists of his generation, variously oriented toward modernist currents in the search for greater autonomy from the traditional environment. Already present since 1904 at the exhibitions of the Promotrice Salvator Rosa in Naples, in 1909 he joined the "Secessione dei ventitré "With these of Francesco Galante he organized I' Esposizione giovanile in Naples. In 1905 he took part in the Salon d'automne in Paris and in the LXXIX Roman Exhibition of the Society of Amateurs and Connoisseurs of Fine Arts, where he exhibited Marechiaro and Studio (Rome, National Gallery of Modern Art); in 1910 he made his debut at the Venice Biennale, an exhibition that would see him present until the 13th edition in 1922. In 1911 G. was engaged to decorate the central hall of the pavilion of Campania, Basilicata and Calabria at the Fiftieth Anniversary Ethnographic Exhibition held that year in Rome. In the capital, the artist returned two years later to participate in the I Roman Secession Exhibition and where he was engaged to decorate the pavilion of Campania, Basilicata and Calabria at the Ethnographic Exhibition in Rome. Francesco Galante began at this time to distance himself from the Secessionist movement, aligning himself with more traditionalist positions. After the wartime interlude spent at the front, he resumed his exhibition activity in 1919 (International Exhibition in Turin and I Mostra "La Floridiana" in Naples). In 1921 he took part in Naples in the Mostra d'arte dei grigio-verdi and in the I Biennale nazionale d'arte, and a few years later followed the Novecen Francesco Galante continued, meanwhile, a lively exhibition activity, participating, among other things, in the Novecento exhibitions set up by Margherita Sarfatti...

Art Deco painting in oil on canvas illustrating a young nude woman, pensive, half lying down, in front and the face resting on her right hand. Her skin is clear and she wears a short hairstyle in the fashion of the 30s. A certain light emanates from this work which takes up a classic theme of Western art: the female nude. This Art Deco painting is not signed but can be linked to the work of the French...

Donna Schuster (1893-1953) “Nude Bathers” watercolor, pencil and gouache within a giltwood carved frame and protective glass. Signed ‘Donna Schuster’ (Lower Right), circa 1920-1930. ...

Italian male nude oil painting on wood panel, circa 1930. Stunning and unusual framed Italian male nude oil painting on a wood panel. This Italian A...