nude

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In July 2006, Manhattan prosecutors charged Doyle with the theft of a bronze sculpture of a nude dancer by French impressionist Edgar Degas valued at $600,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Her lips, coated in a nude lipstick, are pursed just enough to achieve the perfect pout.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

Husain, who died in 2011 aged 95, often faced backlash for the depictions of nude Hindu gods in his paintings.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025

Who knows what prompted Camille Claudel, at 20, to take a blade to the clay model of her sculpture of a headless crouching nude, tilting to one side and balanced precariously on rough feet?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson