Charles Augustin Lhermitte

Charles Augustin Lhermitte. Jeune femme de face 1912

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Nu féminin 1910. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Adeline Gain 1910. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Nu féminin au drapé jaune 1910. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Nu féminin au drapé rouge 1910. Autochrome.

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Nu féminin 1910. Autochrome.

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Nu féminin 1910. Autochrome.

Underwood and Underwood

Underwood and Underwood. Jeune femme sur un rocher 1926

Auguste Rodin

« I regret nothing. Nor the outcome which seems funereal to me, my life will have fallen into an abyss. But my soul had its flowering, alas late. I had to know you and everything took on an unknown life, my dull existence blazed in a bonfire. Thank you because it is to you that I owe all the share of heaven that I have had in my life. » (Letter from Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel)

Photographe non identifié

Photographe non identifié. Famille au bord de la mer 1920. Autochrome

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman 1913

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Elizabeth Duncan’s dancers 1920s

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Elizabeth Duncan’s dancer 1920

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Stella Bloch dancing on beach 1920

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Stella Bloch dancing on beach 1920s

Adolf Miethe

Adolf Miethe. Woman by the sea 1903. Autochrome

Antonin Personnaz

Antonin Personnaz. Woman in the fields 1910. Autochrome

Antonin Personnaz. Woman in the fields 1910. Autochrome

Paul Poiret

Denise Poiret dans un costume de Paul Poiret 1910s. Autochrome

« I picked this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead remember
We won’t see each other on earth again
Smell of time bit of heather
And remember that I am waiting for you“
(Guillaume Apollinaire)

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov. Sans titre 1910. Autochrome

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov. Sans titre 1910. Autochrome

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov. Sans titre 1910. Autochrome

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov. Sans titre 1910. Autochrome

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov. Sans titre 1910. Autochrome

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov. Sans titre 1910. Autochrome

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov

Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov. Sans titre 1910. Autochrome

John Cimon Warburg

John Cimon Warburg. Under the red lamp 1911. Autochrome

John Cimon Warburg

John Cimon Warburg. Pre-raphaelite portrait 1909. Autochrome

John Cimon Warburg. Pre-raphaelite portrait 1909. Autochrome

Elias Goldensky

Elias Goldensky. Portrait de femme 1916

Elias Goldensky

Elias Goldensky. Femme à la rose 1916. Autochrome

Elias Goldensky

Elias Goldensky. Femme à l’ombrelle 1916. Autochrome

Elias Goldensky. Femme à l’ombrelle 1916. Autochrome

Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Maria Lutz

Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Maria Lutz. Femme dans un intérieur 1907 – 1916. Autochrome

Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Maria Lutz

Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Maria Lutz. Sans titre 1912. Autochrome

Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Maria Lutz

Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Maria Lutz. Sans titre 1907 – 1916. Autochrome

Rudolf Duhrkoop

Rudolf Duhrkoop. Sans titre 1900s. Autochrome

Rudolf Duhrkoop

Rudolf Duhrkoop. Woman with a hat 1908

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Lovers 1914

From Los motivos de Berta directed by José Luis Guerín in 1984

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Juliet Barrett Rublee 1913. Autochrome

Charles Augustin Lhermitte

Charles Augustin Lhermitte. Etude de nu 1910

Marjorie King

The actress Marjorie King 1930s

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse. Nu rose assis 1935

Anaïs Nin

« She was tied to the moon by long threads of red tangled blood. She moved like a woman tied to the moon… it enveloped her and it opened her to an absolute night without dawn. » (Anaïs Nin)

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Marjorie King 1930

Kiki de Montparnasse

Kiki de Montparnasse in The ballet mécanique directed by Fernand Léger in 1924

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Two friends 1913

Teinosuke Kinugasa

From A page of madness directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa in 1926

« Platon said that we are captives in a cave, and that we only know the outside world by shadows. »
(Steven Pinker)

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Corinne Griffith 1920

Gerhard Riebicke

Gerhard Riebicke. Nude woman dancing in a field 1930

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse. Le rêve 1935

« Every great soul is Odyssian, it abandons itself to the beauty and grandeur of the world and, in this abandonment to the august powers, finds the courage to be and to fight. »
(Luc-Olivier d’Algange. Prélude à l’âme odysséenne)

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse. Tête blanche et rose 1914

Alfonse Van Besten

Alfonse Van Besten. Woman in a garden 1900s

Leonard Cohen

« Well I stepped into an avalanche
It covered up my soul
When I am not this hunchback that you see
I sleep beneath the golden hills
You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn, learn to serve me well
You strike my side by accident
As you go down for your gold
The crippled h i that you clothe and feed
Is neither starved nor cold
He does not ask for your company
Not at the centre, the centre of the world
When I am on a pedestal
You did not raise me there
Your laws do not compel me
To kneel grotesque and bare
I myself am the piedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare
You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn what makes me kind
The crumbs of love that you offer me
They’re the crumbs I’ve left behind
Your pain is no credential here
It’s just the shadow, shadow of my wound
I have begun to long for you
I who have no greed
I have begun to ask for you
I who have no need
You say you’ve gone away from me
But I can feel you when you breathe
Do not dress in those rags for me
I know you are not poor
You don’t love me quite so fiercely now
When you know that you are not sure
It is your turn, beloved
It is your flesh that I wear. « 

Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu

Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu. Nu féminin 1854

Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu

Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu. Nu féminin 1854

Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu

Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu. Nu féminin drapé 1854

Yva (Else Ernestine Neuländer Simon)

Yva (Else Ernestine Neuländer Simon). Nu féminin 1920

Marlene Dietrich

The actress Marlene Dietrich

« You are among flowers, the supreme achievement,
O liquor, in which their souls unite!
Who tastes you does not know that he absorbs the golden essence of lyricism. »
(Federico Garcia Lorca)

Herbert James Draper

Herbert James Draper. Étude à l’huile pour Clyties of the mist 1910

Grete Kolliner

Grete Kolliner. The dancers Otto Werberg and Lilly Calderon 1930

Grete Kolliner

Grete Kolliner. The dancer Ellinor Tordis 1925

Grete Kolliner

Grete Kolliner. The dancers Hedi Pfundmayr and Mira Cirul 1925

Grete Kolliner

Grete Kolliner. The dancer Ellinor Tordis 1930

Grete Kolliner. The dancer Ellinor Tordis 1930

Louis Amédée Mante et Edmond Goldschmidt

Louis Amédée Mante et Edmond Goldschmidt. Nu au drap bleu 1910. Autochrome

Photographe anonyme

Photographe non identifié. Sans titre 1900s. Autochrome

Photographe non identifié. Sans titre 1900s. Autochrome

Heinrich Kühn

Heinrich Kühn. Sans titre 1910s. Autochrome

Heinrich Kühn

Heinrich Kühn. Hans et Walther Kühn au bord de l’eau 1907. Autochrome

Arthur Edward Pillsbury. Roses 1925

Arthur Edward Pillsbury. Roses 1925

Edith von Schrenck

The dancer Edith von Schrenck

Grete kolliner

Grete Kolliner. The dancer Edith von Schrenck 1919

Grete Kolliner. The dancer Edith von Schrenck 1919

Grete Kolliner. The dancer Edith von Schrenck 1930

Edith von Schrenck

The dancer Edith von Schrenck

Atelier Robertson

Atelier Robertson. The dancer Edith von Schrenck

Edith von Schrenck

The dancer Edith von Schrenck

Else Hege

Else Hege. The dancer Edith von Schrenck

Grete Kolliner

Grete Kolliner. The dancer Edith von Schrenck

Ellen Kamrath-Meissner

The dancer Ellen Kamrath-Meissner

Ellen Kamrath-Meissner

The dancer Ellen Kamrath-Meissner

Ellen Kamrath-Meissner

The dancer Ellen Kamrath-Meissner

Ellen Kamrath-Meissner

The dancer Ellen Kamrath-Meissner

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman

William Goldman était un photographe commercial américain connu à titre posthume pour ses images de prostituées dans des bordels. 

Les photographies de Goldman n’auraient jamais pu être exposées de son vivant en raison de leur nudité explicite. Vivant à Reading, Pennsylvanie, Goldman a travaillé comme photographe portraitiste des citoyens de la classe supérieure de la ville. Les photographies privées de l’artiste ont été réalisées dans son atelier et un luxueux bordel dans les années 1890. Peu de détails sont connus sur Goldman à part sa date de décès en janvier 1922. La collection de photographies a été redécouverte en 2007, lorsque Robert Flynn Johnson, ancien conservateur des musées des beaux-arts de San Francisco, les a achetées lors d’une foire aux cartes postales à Concord, Californie. . « Ce que nous pouvons déduire de ses photographies, c’est que Goldman était un être humain vraiment sensible à la fois artistiquement et émotionnellement », a écrit Johnson à propos de Goldman.

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892

William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892
William Goldman. Working girl 1892

Herbert James Draper

Herbert James Draper. The evening hours 1916

Otto Hedle

Otto Hedle. Nu féminin allongé 1930

Photographe anonyme

Photographe anonyme. Le point d’interrogation vers 1900

Photographe anonyme

Photographe anonyme. Étude de nu féminin vers 1950

Gerhard Riebicke

Gerhard Riebicke. Nude women in outdoor 1930

Gerhard Riebicke

Gerhard Riebicke. Nude dancers in outdoor 1925