Abstract Nudes Visual Essay

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Abstract Nudes Visual Essay
Go Figure
Abstract Nudes Based in Reality

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Orange Gesture 7
Heidi Lanino (1990- ) American
Oil, charcoal, oil stick, on paper, 23 x 31" (w x h), 2022

Source: Various
Heidi Lanino Bilezikian (1990- ), born in New York, was raised on the south shore of Long Island. She received a full-tuition merit scholarship to Pratt Institute where she earned her BFA in Fine Arts. She works in charcoal, oil and acrylic on paper, canvas, and also clay. Her studio is in Tuxedo Park, NY. Lanino's work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions including Flatiron Prow Art Space, New York, NY; A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, NJ; Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY; Chris Davidson Gallery Newburgh, NY; Gibbs Museum, Charleston, SC; Mindy Ross Gallery, SUNY Orange, Newburgh, NY; Albert Wisner Library Sculpture Park, Warwick, NY, and The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY. Her website is HERE. Her Instagram site is HERE.

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Nude
Hannah Alpha, Canadian
Acrylic and graphite on mylar, 9" x 11" (w x h)
$160, sold

Source: Various
Hannah Alpha, born in Egypt, is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. She's a McGill alumnus. She uses a minimalist painting style. She's taught drawing and painting at the Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts in Montreal for fifteen years. Hannah is an active member of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Quebec (RAAV) and of Atelier Circulaire. Hannah is represented by Art Interiors gallery in Toronto, Canada and Atelier Circulaire in Montreal. Her work is in private and public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa), the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull), the Artotheque of the Gabrielle-Roy library (Quebec City), Loto-Quebec (Montreal), Sony Music (Toronto), the Royal Bank (Montreal), Chateau Champlain (Montreal), Sanofi Aventis (Laval), Collart Collection (Montreal) and the Hyatt Regency Hotel (Jeddah & Riyadh). Hannah Alpha's website is HERE.

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Derriere Le Miroir Figure Study
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), French
Lithograph, 11" x 15" (w x h), 1952
$1,500 USD, American Fine Art Inc., Scottsdale, AZ

Source: Wiki edited
When ill health in his final years prevented him from painting, Matisse created an important body of work in the medium of cut paper collage. Although he was known for his color, this lithograph was issued in Paris by Maeght Editeur in 1952, when he was 82-years-old, two years before Matisse's death in 1954.

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Untitled - Seated Female with Broad Shoulders
Morris Kantor (1896-1974), Russian-born American
Charcoal on paper, 19" x 25" (w x h), circa 1916-1918
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Gift of Mrs. Morris Kantor

Source: Wiki edited
Although Morris Kantor (1896-1974) is best known for his realistic paintings, over the course of his life he also spent time working in Cubism and Futurism, and produced a number of abstract works. Kantor was an instructor at the Cooper Union and also at the Art Students League of New York in the 1940s. He taught many pupils who later became famous artists in their own right, such as Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmund Abeles and Susan Weil. He married fellow artist Martha Ryther (1896-1981). In addition to his downtown Manhattan studio adjacent to Union Square, he also maintained a studio on Cape Cod in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Like many American artists, in the 1920s he also spent time working in Paris. In the 1940s some of his summers were spent in Monhegan, Maine. His work is on display in many museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Hirshhorn Museum.

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Pink Nude
Milton Avery (1885-1965), American
Oil on canvas board, 20" x 24" (w x h), 1963
Christie's New York 2010 auction sold $80,500 USD

Source: Wiki edited
Avery's work is seminal to American abstract painting, while his work is clearly representational, it focuses on color relations and is not concerned with creating the illusion of depth as most conventional Western painting since the Renaissance has. Avery was often thought of as an American Matisse, especially because of his colorful and innovative landscape paintings. His poetic, bold and creative use of drawing and color set him apart from more conventional painting of his era. Early in his career, his work was considered too radical for being too abstract.