The Passion of Collecting Academic Nudes

Join me as we explore my collection of Academic Nudes from the 18th, 19th, and Early 20th Centuries and serendipitous finds in the Museum, Art Auction, and Gallery world......examples from the Golden Age of the European Academie


Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Book Review: Germaine Greer - The Beautiful Boy

(US Edition)
(UK Edition)

(German Edition)


I wanted to get this book review posted because in coming posts we will explore the subject matter of "the Nude Boy" in more detail. Until then I would like to introduce you to Germaine Greer's book. She tackles the subject matter from a somewhat different perspective (from the feminine outlook) and caught heck for it when the book appeared in print. She explores the many ways one can look at the beauty of the young male figure in art, as boy-toy, virgin soldier, naked martyr, winged genius, angel, seducer, narcissist, and invites the reader to appreciate boys in all their sensuality, spontaneity, and vulnerability. I know I have seen German editions of the book so it should also be available in languages other than English. Highly recommended for your art library. -------------------------------------------- Here are just a few of the many illustrations of artworks in the book: *** Giovanni Batista Caracciolo (1578-1635) .... Sleeping Cupid



Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) The Death of Joseph Barra , 1794



Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) Self-Portrait as David with the Head of Goliath, 1756


Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845) Young Artists in the Studio, 1820



Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) Sleeping Nude Boy

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Title: The Beautiful Boy

Author: Germaine Greer

Publisher: Rizzoli, New York, 2003 (First published in the UK as The Boy

ISBN: 0-8478-2586-8

March/April 2011 Auction Finds: Works on Paper

The European Auction Sites and Auction Houses are loaded with some very beautiful nude figurative works. I have culled through the mass amount of artworks listed on line and posted the results here for you. A few of them are not nudes but the artistic hand that created them are so technically proficient that I just had to post them along with the nudes. Enjoy. --------------------------------------------- Male Nude, German School, late 19th Century
Wilhelm Voltz (1855-1901) Seejungfrau


Walter Trautschold (1902-1969) Akt


Versailles Statue, Nu L'Hermaphrodite - 17th Century Print


Versailles Statue, Nu Hercule, 17th Century Print


Versailles Statue. Nu Hercule, 17th Century Print


Unknown German Artist, Sitting Male Nude


Totenschadel, Circa 1880


German School, Unknown Artist.


Spielende Putti, Kupfer, um 1650





Willi Sitte (1921) Untitled.



Michel Simonidy (1870-1933) Female Nude







Carl Schwalbach (1885-1983) Mappenwerk 1913





Paul Shad-Rossa ... Nude Studies (Above)


Raymond La Fage (1656-1684) Bacchus


Prof. Johannes Grutzke ..... 1937.. Allegory of the Artist



Prof. Alexander Murray, 1920, Female Nude


Pferd-Kind-titel blatt aus Munchner, Jugend 1906



Paul Shad-Rosa.. Male Nude


Pastellkredezeich nung nach Carle van Loo (1705-1765) wohl Umkreis Gilles Demarteau


Otto Quante (1875-1947) Female Nude


Otto Greiner (1869-1916) Ex Libris


Otto echmann (1865-1902) Badenweiler, Wenn der Fruhling kommt






Male Nude, Atelier Roqueplan 1844, Alfred Stevens (1823-1906)


Mythological Figures




Monogrammist "CL" .... Black Crayon, Female Nude Playing Flute


Max Liebermann (1847-1935) Jeunes hommes au bord de la mer


Max Klinger, Female Nude


Max Klinger, Sysiphus... 1914


Max Klein (1847-1908) .. Sitting Male Nude, 1885


Male Nude, signed Fritzsche, ca. 1890


Mannlicher Akt mit Tuch


Manfred Henninger ... Bathing Male Nudes



Mariette Lydis (1887-1970) Admiration






Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935) Study for larger Orientilist

painting
Standing Male Nude, signed Korke... Ca. 1892


Hermann Katelhon (1884-1940) Miner


Karl Stauffer (1857-1891) Liegender Mannlicher Akt




Josephine Ducollett (?) Male Nude



Josephine Ducollett (?) Male Nude, after the antique


Joseph Fisher (?) Mythological Scene, 1865


Jan de Bisschop (?) Mannliche Akt


Italian Master, 17th Century Italian School, Sebastien


Hugo Hoppener (1868-1947) Konigstraum


19th Century German School, Religious scene


Hermann Tiebert (1895-1978) Eissiedler


Hans Thoma (1839-1924) Triton pair in light of the setting sun




Hans Collaert (1566-1628) nach Heidrik Goltzius (1558-1617) St. John the Baptist


Franz Grassel (1861-1948) Sitting Nude Male Youth


Gilles Demarteau (1722-1760) Crayon Manner Print


Georg Kolbe (?) Nude Male Youth


Georg Gelbke (1882-1947) Tanzfigur


Georg erler (1871-1951) ca. 1908


Francois de Poilly (1622-1693) Bain de Nymphes


Salomon Gessner (?) Faunes, Satyr (1767)


F. Kogelmann (?) Standing Male Nude


Unknown, expulsion from Paradise


Edwin Scharff (1877-1955) Liebespaar





Italian School, Ca. 1800


Italian School, Centaures


Unknown Artist, Male Nude



Dora Hitz (1856-1924) Nude Boy





Unknown artist, Virgin and Nude Christ Child


Unknown artist, Male Nude


Unknown artist, Standing Male Nude







Cecilia Melanie Beresford (1865-1885) French marine




Carl V. Blaas (1815-1894) Male Nude Study


Camille Henri Bouche-Lecler (1878-1946)


Bruno Heroux (1868-1944) Huckepack


August Becker (1878-1942)


Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus (1692-1765) La Mort d'Adonis


Antonie Watteau (?) Female Nude



Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus (1692-1765) La Mort d'Adonis



Andreas Bach (1881-1963) Study for Christ on the Cross



Hand Study, Italian School






Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) Portrait du Primatice


Academic Study signed Weigand 1850






Adam and Eve discover the body of Abel









1840, Unknown artist, study of Male Youths



1830. after the Antique