"Youths Bathing in the Bay of Algiers, " Monumental Painting by Ortega, 1934

Drenched in rich color and somehow both modern and classical, this scene of nude male figures is presented as a frieze of men along a horizontal plane -- as if they are peopling a mu...

Centered around a young man in a blue swimsuit who is lost in thought, looking into the distance, this atmospheric painting shows a group of swimmers enjoying a lovely summer day. T...

This striking and unusual painting -- beautifully composed with a rich palette -- depicts two nude British youth, sitting on a rocky outcropping during a day of swimming. Each is sl...

An extraordinary example of Art Deco painting with allegorical meaning -- like so many murals painted in the 1920s and 1930s -- this large work by William L'Engle depicts five nude male figures laboring in the field, symbolizing life in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A Black male figure in the foreground is planting crops, while two other figures in the distance are pulling a rope, perhaps alluding to fishing boats tied up at the dock, while another nude seems to be sinking into sleep beneath a pier -- all with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the background. L'Engle called this "The Five Josephs," perhaps referring to Joseph of Arimathea and other figures in the New Testament. William L'Engle was a towering figure in the Provincetown art colony, and was extremely well connected with America's artistic elite, starting with his trip to Europe as a young man with Waldo Pierce and George Biddle. Over time, William and his life Lucy became close to a wide range of important figures in painting, theater and the arts, including Charles Hawthorne, Eugene O'Neill, Gerrit Beneker, John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, William and Marguerite Zorach, Edna St. Vincent-Millay, Charles Demuth, Childe Hassam, George Biddle, Edwin Dickinson...

This monumental 1920s oil on canvas, The Bathers, reinterprets William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s renowned 1884 masterpiece through the distinctive vision of Swedish-born artist Eric John ...

Ludwig KLIMEK was born in Krakow (Poland) in 1912. Ludwig KLIMEK was born in Krakow (Poland) in 1912. Fleeing the invasion of his country by German troops in 1939, he came to Franc...

Monumental Modernist Painting ‘Swimmers’ by Urbanek, Prague 1963 Vibrant large-scale oil on canvas by Czech artist Urbanek, painted in Prague in 1963 — a modernist depiction of yout...

Gouache on paper representing naked women taking a bath in a stream in the heart of nature. Signed and countersigned at the bottom and in the center "C. WALCH". This gouache has very...