The Friday Evening Nudes (and Happy Hour)

Tonight's nudes feature contains images I found just today, so I am displaying them with no particular theme, mood or common thread.  There is smattering of Modigliani.

Arthur B. Davies,

Rhythms, ca. 1910

Oil on canvas. Milwaukee Art Museum

Robert Henri

 Another of The Eight 

Milwaukee Art Museum

The Eight- A group of American painters who united to oppose various traditions upheld by the National Academy. They exhibited together only once — in 1908, but the effect of their gesture was to strengthen the advance of modernism in the United States. The Eight included five painters associated with the Ashcan school: Robert Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), William Glackens (1870-1938), John Sloan (1871-1951), and Everett Shinn (1876-1953), along with Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), and Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928).

Akseli Valdemar Gallen-Kallela

Modigliani

And there you have it. A melange of nudes. Enjoy your Friday night and be sure to scroll down this post for tonight Happy Hour.

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Happy Hour Friday

My favorite American Diva, Emmylou Harris, singing the Neil Young song, Wrecking Ball.

Would You Allow Someone to Paint Your Portrait?

Take the quiz to the right, won't you?

Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne

Modigliani's last muse 

If you answered "in a heartbeat" to the poll question, send me the image of a portrait by a painter whom you'd want to paint your portrait and in what style.

The Friday Evening Nudes

Rose Hilton

Figure in the Sunroom

To meet Mary's request for tonight, something from Modigliani

 

Marc Chagall

Boris Kustodiyev

Russian

Venus

Kees Van Dongen

John Kock

Jean Beauduin

Lady Holding a Fan

John Collier

English Classical painter

An eleventh-hour request for Anders Zorn from my very own WP

 Good night to be nude by the fire, don't you think?  ;-)

Artist of the Week - Suzanne Valadon

Hello, all! Before we delve fully into the work of Suzanne Valadon, I wanted to check in with you all regarding comment  approval on the blog. I thought I'd be able to remove it by now but the Asian porn sites are still at it. It's a lot lighter but I don't want to risk removing the feature for fear that the next time I check my email, there will be twenty in one day, in posts dating back month and months; making them hard to remove. I've also recently rejected several comments from pharmaceutical sites. Maybe as a result of the mental health posts? I don't know.  

Thanks to those of you who stopped by with Thanksgiving wishes. To be honest, it meant a lot to me. Many of you are juggling complicated life and family schedules, keeping blogs with large readerships and I know at least one of you is writing a novel! I can't get over my good fortune in finding a sense of friendship and community through blogging. 

May love keep you always.

Pagan Sphinx

 

 The Net Throwers
1914

  The Net Throwers

detail

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1865-1938

Self-portrait

Suzanne Valadon is perhaps best known as an artist's model than as a gifted painter in her own right.  Below is a sampling of paintings by famous artists for whom she posed. She learned a great deal about painting from these masters, who recognized her talent and originality.  In 1915, she had her first one person exhibition, which became a critical as well as a commercial success.

When Suzanne Valadon died in 1938, her funeral was attended by Picasso,  Andre Derain and George Braque.

Toulouse Latrec
Portrait of Suzanne Valadon

Valadon modeled for this painting:Dance at Bougival

by Renoir

Modgliani

Suzanne Valadon

Maurice Utrillo
(Valadon's son and also a well regarded painter; gaining the reputation as the half-mad alcoholic of Montmartre)

André Utter

(her husband)

Suzanne Valadon se coiffant

1909

Adam and Eve
detail

1910

The Fortune Teller
1912

1913

1918

 

  1922

 

 detail

 

Portrait de famille

 (Valdon, son Maurice Utrillo, husband  Andre Utter and Utter's mother)

 

The Forgotten Doll

Portrait de Miss Lily Walton avec Raminou

The Motor Primitives & The Friday Evening Nudes

I'm not sure whose work this is. Anyone? Is it Schiele?

Amedeo Modigliani

Matisse

Klimt

The Motor Primitives
CD Inner-Sleeve Art

The Motor Primitives.

Who are The Motor Primitives, you ask? They hail from Madison, Wisconsin, our very own Ed of Enriched Geranium is their bassit and they rock! I don't know where the track will end up in all of this but it should be here somewhere on the blog. It's called Classified and the delay in posting about the CD I just bought comes from not having wanted to take it out of my car player. Yes, it's that good. If you don't believe me, check it out for yourselves!

The Friday Evening Nudes

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Reclining Nude With Blue Cushion
1917

Reclining Nude with Arms Open

(red nude)

Seated Nude
1916

Reclining Nude 1917

Seated Nude 1917