Current Auction House Listings: Nude Ephebes (Nude Boys)

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Several of the European Auction Houses are currently listing works featuring the nude ephebe (nude boy) in their auction catalogs. I thought I would list them separately because they tend to get lost in some of the larger posts of academic nudes that I post. Enjoy.

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Attributed to William Mulready, pencil study of a nude male youth (above)

Adolph Curry (1879-1939): Nude Boy Play a Flute

Ludwig Knauss (1829-1910) Study of a Nude Boy Playing a Horn

(Unknown Artist) Late 19th Century Germany: The Prodigal Son

Unknown German Artist: Nude Boy Holding a Skull

Demetrio Paernio (1851-1920): Nude Boy with Crab (Fountain Figure)

(?) Ring : Junge am Strand - ca. 1910

Otto Sohn-Rethel (1877-1949) Drie Nackte Knaben - 1910

Otto Sohn-Rethel (1877-1949) Drie Nackte Knaben Kochen eine Suppe - 1910

Unknown Artist: (19th Century) Study of a Cupid

Karoly Ferenczy (1862-1917): Male Youth Astride a Horse

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Virag Judit Galeria, Budapest, HU has listed this beautiful work by Karoly Ferenczy (1862-1917) in their current auction catalog. I have featured Ferenczy in a previous posting and if you would like to see the post, just search the artist's name in the search slot above and it should pop up. The drawing stylistic similarities between the figure on the horse and the academic male nude in my collection a quite similar.  

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Here is the academic male nude by Ferenczy in my collection :

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Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938): Nude Boy Leaning on a Table - 1907

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Kunst-und-Auktionshaus Peter Karbstein, Dusseldorf, DE has recently listed a nude by the German Expressionist artist Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) in their current catalog. Christian Rohlfs was a well known German painter and print maker who was active during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. According to his biography, he took up painting as a teenager while convalescing from an infection which ultimately cost him his leg. He began his formal studies in Weimar in 1870. His first painting examples were large-scale landscapes and he successively worked through academic, naturalist, Impressionist, and Neo-Impressionist styles. In 1901 he left Weimar for Hagen at the urging of art collector Karl Ernst Osthaus, who offered him a studio in the modern art museum he was establishing there. Through his exposure to the avant-garde movement, including meeting Edvard Munch in 1904 and Emil Nolde in 1905, seeing Van Gough's choppy brushstrokes and vibrant colors, his work moved into its final Expressionist phase. By the age of sixty, he had 185 prints in his oeuvre of masterworks. Aside from a few lithographs, he worked exclusively in woodcut and linoleum cut mediums. In 1937 the Nazis expelled him from the Prussian Academy of Arts and condemned his works as "degenerate." Some 412 examples of his works were ultimately removed from public collections.

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Here is a tiny selection of his figurative works:

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Eric Kips (1869-1945): Female Nude Standing in a Doorway

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Bolland and Marotz Hanseatisches Auktionshaus in Bremen, DE has listed another nude by the German artist Eric Kips (1869-1945). The opening bid is Euro 1,500.00 for the painting. It will be interesting to see if it brings any action at that price.

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Here is the female nude by Kips in my collection (below):

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