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Reube Nakian Original Painting Nude Framed

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Reube Nakian Original Painting Nude Framed
This is an original painting by noted American artist and sculptor Reube Nakian. This image portrays a female nude in an alluring pose. The mythology of ancient Greece and Rome inspired Nakian to create erotic abstractions of the female figure, and this work is a prime example.Artist: Reube Nakian Medium: Black paint on paper Signature: In pencil, lower right Sheet size: 8 1/2 x 11 inches Framing: floated on a natural silk background with inner gold frame, and silk matting; in decorative gold painted frame with antique style finish Frame size: 21 x 22 inches Condition; frame has some missing gold from ageThis is a terrific original from an early American Modernist.

Reuben Nakian (1897-1986) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor. He began his formal studies in 1915 at the Independent School of Art in New York City, which was one of the first schools of its time to offer Modern Art.
His career as a sculptor developed as he became friends with Arshile Gorky and Willem DeKooning. He became famous in 1934 for his 8 foot tall plaster statue of baseball star Babe Ruth. He was commissioned to create a bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1936 Nakian joined the WPA.
Nakian's work has appeared at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in a show curated by poet Frank O'Hara. He is admired throughout the world for his daring and expressive reinterpretations of the human form.