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

Federico Garcia Lorca

« 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

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Dancer on the beach 1910s

Helen Moller

From the book Dancing with Helen Moller 1918

Marc Chagall

« Her silence is mine. Her eyes, mine. It is as if she had known me for a long time, as if she knew everything about my childhood, my present, my future; as if she was watching over me, guessing me from closer, although I see her for the first time. I felt that she was my wife. Her pale complexion, her eyes… These are my eyes, my soul…I have entered a new house, and I am inseparable from it. »
(Marc Chagall)

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Lovers 1912

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Femmes en studio 1910. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Adeline Gain et des amies au bord de l’eau 1910. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Femme sur les rochers 1910s. Autochrome

Gustave Gain

Gustave Gain. Pêcheuses 1900s. Autochrome

Kansuke Yamamoto

Kansuke Yamamoto. Sans titre

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Nude dancers 1910s

Arnold Genthe

Arnold Genthe. Florence Fleming Noyes’s dancers 1914

From A midsummer night’s dream directed by William Dieterle et Max Reinhardt in 1935

Florence Fleming Noyes

Florence Fleming Noyes’s dancer with a scarf on a rock 1910

Florence Fleming Noyes

Florence Fleming Noyes’s dancer with poppies 1910

Florence Fleming Noyes

Florence Fleming Noyes’s dancers in outdoor 1910

Henry Miller

“Some feel the rain in advance: others just get wet.”
(Henry Miller)

Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston. The actress Corinne Griffith 1918

From A midsummer night’s dream directed by William Dieterle et Max Reinhardt in 1935

Mona Paiva

Souyioultzoglou Seraidari (Nelly).
The dancer Mona Paiva on the Acropolis 1925

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele. Young woman lying 1911