Paintings; Oil paintings; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Walking; Nudes; Stairways
"Marcel Duchamp submitted [to the 1913 New York Armory Show] Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, which was the most scandalous work of all. It was a humorous attack on Futurist proscriptions against traditional, Academic nudity. The image has...
"The vast majority of prehistoric sculptures depict either animals or humans. In the earliest art, humankind consists almost exclusively of women as opposed to men, and painters and sculptors almost invariably showed them nude […]. When...
Pencil drawing; "This drawing, which at nearly three feet in height is very large for Giacometti, is one of an enormous number that he produced throughout his life. His sculptures and paintings of the figure, similarly attenuated, are far...
Caption information: Liegender Frauenakt [Reclining female nude]/ um 1912 [c. 1912] / Bleistift, weiss gehoht [pencil with white chalk (white highlight; heightened with white)] / sig.: u. r. Gustav Klimt [signature (signed): Lower right: Gustav...
Caption information: Kniender weiblicher Akt in gekauerter Stellung [Kneeling female nude in crouching position] / um 1917 [c. 1917]/ Studie zu “Leda” [Study of “Leda”] / Bleistift [pencil] / u. r.: Nachlassstempel [lower right: estate...
Caption information: Stehender weiblicher Akt nach rechts [Standing female nude seen facing right] / um 1915 [c. 1915] / Bleistift [pencil] / sig.: u. r. Gustav Klimt [signature: lower right Gustav Klimt] / Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien...
"One of Dali's finest paintings from the 1940s." (Caption); "My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Body Transformed into Steps, the Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture, on the other hand, was one of the finest, and most...
