nude
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Sue Tilley was 35 years old and working in a London employment office when she disrobed and let British artist Lucian Freud paint her in the nude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
On Wednesday, one of Freud’s four nude portraits of her sold at Sotheby’s London for $39 million, the third-highest auction price for the artist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Jones' family backed a £120,000 fundraising campaign to have him immortalised as the nude organist, a recurring character he played in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
“I remember once in Paris, he just stepped out for cigarettes, and the next thing I knew, he was arrested by the police for floating nude down the Seine.”
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
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
The handmade stoneware tiles of Florencia Rothschild at Wishbone honor femininity and self-care in mural-like assemblages of nudes engaging in yoga, Pilates and rest, foregrounding the human form without sexualizing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Caillebotte has jettisoned the usual classical trappings of Greek and Roman heroes, which typically cloak male nudes in sober history and myth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
The Text with Jesus app is inextricably linked to the deepfake nudes generated by supercharged tools from Microsoft and Google — in that they share one foolish premise at core.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023
It was probably the dealer Léopold Zborowski who suggested to Modigliani that he paint nudes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
It was Michelangelo’s habit to base his female figures on male nudes drawn from life.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
