Skin – Zaidan Gallery

01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, Alphonsine de Challié’s Young brunette woman with a pink veil at her toilet, with footnotes # 31

Alphonsine de Challié, French, 1858 – 1904
Young brunette woman with a pink veil at her toilet
Oil on canvas
62.5 by 81½ cm., 24½ by 32 in.
Private collection

Alphonsine de Challie worked in the studio of Charles Joshua Chaplin and was a friend of Berthe Morisot. In 1875, Berthe Morisot painted the’ Woman with her toilet ‘which is today preserved at the Art Institute of Chicago. Is she undressing or getting ready? The same mystery surrounds this picture of Alphonsine Challie who was probably influenced by his elder. More on this painting
Having grown up in an intellectual family that encouraged her talent for drawing, Alphonsine de Challié studied painting under Charles Chaplin, one of the first artists to open his studio to female students among whom were Mary Cassatt, Louise Abbéma and Madeleine Lemaire. De Challié befriended fellow artist Berthe Morisot and exhibited regularly at the Salon between 1878 and 1882. More on Alphonsine de Challié

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01 painting, The amorous game, Otto Aguiar’s Miami Beach, With Footnotes, #87

Otto Aguiar, Brazilian (1938 – 2006)
Miami Beach, c. 1993
Screenprint
40 x 30 inches
Private collection

The son of a highly respected Brazilian general, Otto de Souza Aguiar graduated with honors and was awarded a Master’s Degree in Graphic Art and Drawing from the University of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After teaching drawing and design to aspiring architects, Otto began the extensive travels through Europe that were his induction into the world of High Fashion and Interior Design. As one of Brazil’s top models, his engagements took him to Milan, Paris, and London. There, with his assignments in Harper’s Bazaar Italia and others of the world’s most prestigious publications, Aguiar developed an inspired aesthetic perception, which manifests itself boldly in his dramatic blending of color, texture and gilding.

Otto has combined his vast fashion and theatrical background with his diversified experience in the Visual Arts. Thus, his work has been characterized by the portrayal of elegance and grace. His inner tranquility manifests in his paintings as he recaptures the lush topical beauty of the Brazilian beaches and gardens of his youth. Aguiar was greatly inspired by the romance of the Baroque and Colonial period of Brazilian.

Renowned for his masterful integration of trompe l’oeil and unique figurative style, Aguiar’s work has been an extraordinary enhancement to residential, public and corporate settings on several continents, for almost 30 years. More on Otto Aguiar

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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Fruta prohibida/ Forbidden Fruit, with footnotes # 170

Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902 – 2002)
Fruta prohibida [Forbidden Fruit] 1976, printed 1990s
Silver print
6 7/8×9 inches (17.5×22.9 cm.)
Private collection

Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a teenager when he first picked up a camera and began taking pictures, before he enrolled in night classes in painting at the Academia San Carlos, in 1917, or sought instruction in the darkroom of local German photographer Hugo Brehme. Initially self-taught, Álvarez Bravo’s style developed through study of foreign and local photography journals. In these pages, he first encountered the work of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, who came to Mexico in 1923; the latter became a close colleague and supporter, introducing Álvarez Bravo to the artists of Mexico’s avant-garde, including Diego Rivera, Frida Khalo, and Rufino Tamayo, as well as encouraging him to send photographs to Weston.

In the 1930s, Álvarez Bravo met Paul Strand, traveling with him while he worked in Mexico, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. With Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans he exhibited in a three-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York, in 1935. Mexico was a cultural hub for many in the international avant-garde in these years; André Breton visited, including Álvarez Bravo in the Exposition of Surrealism he organized in 1940 in Mexico City. Although the artist never identified with Surrealism, it was a major theme in the analysis of his pictures throughout his career. Revealing the influence of his formative years following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Álvarez Bravo would instead speak of his interest in representing the cultural heritage, peasant population, and indigenous roots of the Mexican people in the face of rapid modernization. More on Manuel Álvarez Bravo

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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Manuel Alvarez Bravo’s La Desvendada/ The Unveiled, with footnotes # 168

Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Nude, circa 1985
Gelatin silver print
25.4 x 20.3 cm
Private collection

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06 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Steve Hanks’ Morning Rituals, with footnotes # 165

Steve Hanks, 1949-2015
Comfort in Solitude
Paper Lithograph
7 3/4 x 13 1/2
Private collection

Steve Hanks, 1949–2015, is recognized as one of the best watercolor artists today. The detail, color and realism of Steve Hanks’ paintings are unheard of in this difficult medium. Steve Hanks captures these patterns of life better than anyone.

Steve Hanks was born into a military family in San Diego in 1949. His father was a highly decorated WWII Navy flyer. Hanks grew up playing tennis and surfing along the beaches of Southern California…

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, James Gleeson’s Salvage from Random’s Effigy, with footnotes # 165

James Gleeson, (1915 – 2008)
Salvage from Random’s Effigy, c. 1939 – 41
Oil on canvas on board
45.5 x 35.0 cm
Private collection

When James Gleeson first exhibited Salvage from Random’s Effigy, 1939 – 41 the Second World War had been raging for almost three years, eventually reaching Australian shores with the terrifying bombing of Darwin and the submarine attack on Sydney Harbour in February, then May of 1942. Gleeson and a number of his artist-associates had been concerned by the insidious rise of Fascism for many years, and utilised their individualistic styles in an attempt to illustrate or articulate the horror that they felt. Gleeson, a deeply read man who also wrote poetry, found a suitable strategy in Surrealism which, through its probing and analysis of the subconscious, explored ‘the realms of imagination and politics’.1 Nearly eighty years after their creation, his paintings remain some of the most enigmatic and haunting images to have been produced in Australia during this traumatic period. More on this painting

Known as the Father of Australian Surrealism, artist, poet, and critic James Gleeson examines human nature in Surrealist landscapes. His interest in classical figures and mythology inspired by artists like William Blake and El Greco, along with his unease about the fate of humanity as a result of the World Wars, resulted in a body of work featuring an apocalyptic fantasy world. In his alternative reality—as seen in works like Aspiring Echoes (1999)—punishment for historical brutalities are brought to bear in the near future in a mood of disturbing and seductive foreboding. His meticulously rendered and lusciously painted scenes of geological shapes and biomorphic forms merge into the macabre. The artist studied at East Sydney Technical College and the Sydney Teachers’ College. Gleeson’s work is in numerous collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the National Gallery of Australia. More on James Gleeson

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07 Paintings, Max Middleton, On the Beach with Hazel and Danielle, with footnotes # 163

Max Middleton (1922 – 2013)
Detail; Hazel On the Beach
Oil on canvas
57 x 41cm
Private collection

Max Middleton enjoyed a long and highly acclaimed career as a professional artist, exhibiting in 68 exhibitions over 66 years. He died in 2013. Max had a great interest in the Australian landscape. As an en plein air painter, he faithfully rendered what he saw. He had an extraordinary ability to capture light on canvas…

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Harrington Mann’s Nude, with footnotes # 166

Harrington Mann, (British, 1864-1937)
Nude, c. 1933
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 63.5 cm. (20 x 25 in.)
Private collection

Harrington Mann (7 October 1864, Glasgow–28 February 1937, New York City) was a Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter. He was a member of the Glasgow Boys movement in the 1880s.Mann began his studies at the Glasgow School of Art. He then studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under professor Alphonse Legros. He then studied in Paris under the guidance of the figure painters Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Academie Julian for a short time.

Mann’s early paintings from the 1880s are mainly of fishing communities in Yorkshire. He began to develop a name for himself in portrait painting in the 1890s.

He had a strong sense of colour and design for decorating interior walls and for stained glass. In the 1890s he designed for the Scottish firm of J. and W. Guthrie. In 1893 he designed the stained glass for the west window of St Bartholomew’s Church, Barbon, in what is now Cumbria.

In 1900, he moved south to London, also opening a studio in New York, where his paintings became popular. In London, he found success in society portraits, especially of children and including members of the British royal family.

Mann was one of the founder members of the National Portrait Society in 1911. More on Harrington Mann

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01 Paintings, The amorous game, Thomas Saliot’s Lips and tongues, Part 46 – With Footnotes

Thomas Saliot, France
Lips and tongues
Oil on Canvas
37.4 H x 57.1 W x 0.4 in
Private collection

Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas.

Thomas Saliot was born in Paris, France, in 1968. He studied Graphic Design at the Met de Penninghen (Esag) for 3 years and opened his own gallery in le Marais in the historic district of Paris from 1990 to 2000. For the past 20 years he has been living the life, painting and travelling between Marrakech, Morocco and his home city of Paris, France. More on Thomas Saliot

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01 painting, The amorous game, John Lewis Brown’s The charms of the grisette and the soldiers of the regiment, With Footnotes, #86

John Lewis Brown (1829–1890)
The charms of the grisette and the soldiers of the regiment, c. 1876
Oil on panel
59 x 49 CM
Private collection

The word grisette has referred to a French working-class woman from the late 17th century and remained in common use through the Belle Époque era, albeit with some modifications to its meaning. It derives from gris (French for grey), and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. By the 1835 she was described as:

a young working woman who is coquettish and flirtatious.

In practice, “young working woman” referred primarily to those employed in the garment and millinery trades as seamstresses or shop assistants, the few occupations open to them in 19th century urban France, apart from domestic service. The sexual connotations which had long accompanied the word are made explicit in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1976) which lists one of its meanings as a young woman who combines part-time prostitution with another occupation. More on a grisette
John Lewis Brown (1829–1890) was a French battle, animal, and genre painter. He was born in Bordeaux of a Scottish family of Stuart partisans. He studied in the École des Beaux-Arts with Camille Roqueplan and Jean-Hillaire Belloc.[1] He is known for his pictures of hunting and military scenes, and his studies of horses and dogs. He painted a number of admirable pictures from the American Revolutionary War, the Seven Years’ War, and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. His presentation is clever and humorous, his work characterized by refinement and charm. The Luxembourg possesses his “Before the Start,” the Gallery of Dublin, “The Mountebank.” He was also an excellent etcher and aquarellist. More on John Lewis Brown

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01 painting, The amorous game, Gurcharan Singh’s Saturday Night, With Footnotes, #85

Gurcharan Singh
Saturday Night, c. 2021
Acrylic and oil on canvas
60 x 48 in (152.3 x 122 cm)
Private collection

Gurcharan Singh is an Indian painter, known for his figurative paintings.[1] He was born in 1949 at Patiala, in the Indian state of Punjab and studied at Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chandigarh.[2] He has had several and group exhibitions in India and abroad and his works were exhibited at the International Biennale in Tokyo in 1984, at the Contemporary Art Show in Seoul in 1986 and the Festival of Contemporary Art in London in 1988.[2] The Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and India House, Paris have his on display at their premises.[3] His signature paintings are based on the people from financially compromised classes; The Red Light in Black and White and Les Miserables are two of his notable works. More on Gurcharan Singh

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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Anwen Keeling’s Swathe and The Radiance, with footnotes # 161

Anwen Keeling (born 1971)
Swathe, c. 2014
Oil on linen
102 x 152cm
Private collection

Anwen Keeling (born 1971)
The Radiance 2007
Oil on canvas
91 x 137cm
Private collection

Anwen Keeling (born in 1976) is an Australian portrait painter. Working primarily with oil paints, her artworks have often focused on introspective women in private settings. She has „always been influenced by Caravaggio.“ Her artworks prominently contain areas of deep shadows.

Keeling was born in Sydney and received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours (First Class) and University Medal, from the Canberra School of Art at the Australian National University. She received a Master of Arts (European Fine Art) from the Winchester School of Art at Southampton University in Barcelona, Spain. More on Anwen Keeling

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Unknown Artist’s A LONG-HAIRED NUDE, with footnotes # 159

VINTAGE NUDE; Unknown Artist
A LONG-HAIRED NUDE
Un-Embelished Giclee Print
20 1/8 x 30 Inches
Private collection

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01 photograph, The amorous game, Sergii Mykhalkiv’s Boudery Fun # 11, With Footnotes, #82

Sergii Mykhalkiv
Boudery Fun # 11
Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 27.2 W x 18.1 H x 0 D in
Private collection

Sergiy Mykhalkiv was born in 1975 in Lviv. He was teaching the art of photography in several photo schools. In 2017 he opened his own photo studio “RedLight”. Mykhalkiv was a two-time winner of the annual contest of the “Playboy” magazine, and winner of National Union of Photo Artists of Ukraine Contest “Photo Portrait” in 2009, and winner in “Cannon” online competition in 2012.

Since 1998 Sergiy Mykhalkiv takes photos of his muses – beautiful naked women, inspired by the relaxed charm and natural beauty of the female body, which so admired by artists of different eras. He says that the genre of his work is not erotic. Mykhalkiv likes the definition intimate portrait. By taking off clothing – a woman removes her heavy social status and becomes such as it was created by nature. And at this moment, using his own boudoir situation created in the studio, Mykhalkiv creates his photo compositions – the stories from the boudoir. More on Sergii Mykhalkiv

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Cui Xiaodong’s Nude girl, with footnotes # 158

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)
裸女油画/ Nude girl
Oil on canvas
160 x 85 cm. (63 x 33.5 in.)
Private collection

Cui Xiaodong was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province though his ancestral home was Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Cui Xiaodong graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting, CAFA in 1988 with a Master’s degree. Currently he is a professor of CAFA, Director of Yanhuang Art Museum.

With a profound traditional foundation in painting, Cui Xiaodong’s landscape painting is the combination of the tradition of Chinese painting and modern people’s aesthetic consciousness and the spirit of the age, he creates a dignified and vigorous, natural and fresh style of landscape painting, he is a representative of contemporary Chinese painting and has an important status in this field. His works are collected by the National Museum of China, CAFA, National Art Museum of China, The Great Hall of the People, Zhongnanhai Central Government Compound as well as in individual collections at home and abroad. He has published more than 30 books and individual workscatalogues. More on Cui Xiaodong

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01 painting, The amorous game, K S Karnataka’s Embrace, With Footnotes, #84

K S KULKARNI
Embrace, Circa 1960s
Oil on canvas board
29.25 x 21.25 in (74 x 54 cm)
Private collection

K S Kulkarni, (1918 – 1994) was born in Karnataka, Kulkarni studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. He had his first one-man show in 1945, organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society. In 1948 he founded the Triveni Kala Sangam where he served as Director of the Art Department until 1968. In 1955, he was awarded the first of his three national awards and in 1958 he traveled through Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Brazil and came into contact with the Mayan and Inca civilizations which were to become an important influence in his work. In 1962, Kulkarni was elected to the General Council of the Lalit Kala Academy. The artist passed away in 1994. More on K S Kulkarni

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06 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Cui Xiaodong with footnotes # 157

Cui Xiaodong (Chinese, born 1964)
Floating , c. 2010
Oil on canvas
130 x 130 cm. (51.2 x 51.2 in.)
Private collection

Cui Xiaodong’s works are very pure oil paintings. The characteristics of oil paintings are fully exerted, and the interest of the shape and the expression of colors are combined very well. This kind of oil painting with traditional skills, the techniques are mastered so skillfully. Cui Xiaodong’s colors are thick, and his brushwork is delicate and vigorous. He has both the strictness of the northern style and the combination of the southern agile brushwork. The colors are very powerful. Chen Danqing…

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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Dina Larot’s Virgin, with footnotes # 154

Dina Larot, Austrian, born 1943
Virgin, c. 1993
Oil on canvas
43,3 x 27,6
Private collection

Dina Larot is a 20th-century Austrian painter. Known for both her landscapes and erotic female nudes, Larot’s stylized aesthetic is marked by the influence of earlier Austrian masters, the painters Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. Her figures in particular recall the elongated forms and intimate sensuality of the Vienna Succession artists. Born in 1943 in Vienna, Austria, Larot studied under noted artist Rudolf Szyszkowitz at the School of Applied Art in Graz, as well as with Oskar Kokoschka himself in Salzburg. Larot lives and works in Vienna. More on Dina Larot

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01 photograph, The amorous game, Helmut Newton’s Rich Girl, With Footnotes, #81

Helmut Newton, Australian/German, 1920–2004
Rich Girl, From Private Property Suite II, c. 1982
Gelatin silver print
10.8 x 10.8 in. (27.43 x 27.43 cm.)
Private collection

Frequently depicting nude subjects in high heels, Newton instead hones in on the shoes themselves in the present work from Private Property Suite II. Beginning an exploration of what high heels represent in society, he investigates the way class presents itself through footwear. Newton later went on to photograph x-rays of feet in high heels and even donning a pair in his famed self-portrait. More on this photograph
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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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Boris Kustodiev’s Model, with footnotes # 156

Boris Kustodiev, (1878-1927)
Model, c. 1919
Oil on canvas
20 ¼ x 15 7/8 in. (51.3 x 40.4 cm.)
Private collection

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan on March 7, 1878 into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at the local theological seminary.

Between 1893 and 1896, Boris took private art lessons in Astrakhan. Subsequently, from 1896 to 1903, he attended Ilya Repin’s studio at the Academy of Arts in St. Peterburg. Concurrently he took classes in sculpture under Dmitry Stelletsky and in etching under Vasily Mathé.

In 1904, he traveled to Spain, in 1907 to Italy, and in 1909 visited Austria, France, and Germany, and again Italy. During these years he painted many portraits and genre pieces.

In 1909, Kustodiev developed the initial symptoms of the grave illness that in 1916 paralyzed the lower part of his body, thus confining him to his studio where he continued to paint, relying on memories from his boyhood and youth and on his imagination.

In 1923, Kustodiev joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. He continued to paint, make engravings, illustrate books and design for the theater up until his death on May 28, 1927, in Leningrad. More on Boris Kustodiev

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