Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Women on Red

A really great pin-up from the American artist Mayo Olmstead (born 1925).

Monday, September 24, 2012

Odalisque

An Odalisque by the Croatian art nouveau painter Blaise Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) who was specialized in orientalist subjects.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Nice Nude

Another nude by the Hungarian American painter Pal Fried (1893–1976) who produced them in series.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Jungle Girl

Jungle Girl by the Peruvian painter Alberto Vargas (1896 –1982). A great pin-up in the best art-deco manner.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Harem Dreams

Inspection of New Arrivals (1917) by the Italian orientalist painter Giulio Rosati (1858-1917). These harem dreams explain quite well why oriental paintings were so popular.

Monday, August 20, 2012

Drunk Bacchante

A Drunk Bacchante (1882 ) by the French painter Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel (1839-1929). Bacchantes were also a common excuse to paint nudes in the 19th century.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Pretty Girl

Nude girl by the American artist Edwin Georgi. (1896 – 1964). Georgi did normally illustrations for advertisings and some pin-ups as it still could be seen.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Primordial Pin-Up

After the Bath (1894) by the French academic painter Adolphe William Bouguereau (1825-1905). A perfect nude though and in its days it was considered great art. But from a more modern perspective it looks like a primordial pin-up, same style, same pose, same perfection.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Two Wildcats

Cleopatra (1939) by the great American Art Deco artist Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960).

Monday, July 16, 2012

Historical Nude

Isabelle and Orleans (1938) a gorgeous historical nude by the great Australian erotic painter Norman Lindsay (1879-1969).

Sunday, July 8, 2012

A Harem Beauty

A Harem Beauty or an odalisque by the French painter Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923) who was specialized in Orientalist subjects.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

The Tepidarium

A Roman nude in "The Tepidarium" (1881) by the Dutch-English painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 – 1912).