THE MALE NUDE - Au Bonheur du Jour

PRESS RELEASE
N° 25, Monday 5 August 2013
Next exhibition :
THE MALE NUDE
exhibition and sale
from 25 September to 30 November 2013
PHOTOGRAPHS
from 1870 to 2013, Vintage Male Nude
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
19th and 20th centuries
An exhibition of about 200 works of various kinds representing male nudity and the male body.
From academic studies representing painters’ and sculptors’ models
- to sport, wrestling (in the late 19th century in particular), presenting semi-clad men in poses still
echoed in more modern photographs,
- to the sophisticated nudes of the 1930s, in the context of naturism,
- to athletic nudes of the 1940s and 1950s, an enduring theme allowing artists to unveil the male
body,
- to exotic nudes,
To contemporary iconography.
Drawings paintings and photographs will be linked.
Photography :
Marconi, Igout, Eadweard Muybridge, Gloeden,
Plüschow, Galdi, Lehnert et Landrock, Riebicke,
Lionel Wendt,
Earl Forbes, Konrad Helbig, Joseph Caprio,
JD. Cadinot, Yves Paradis, Biron,
Raymond Voinquel and others
Drawings and paintings :
Robida, Poilleux, Rasmus Christiansen,
Derrey, Waroquier, Goor, Gourlier, Czanara
and contemporary American artists.
An exhibition celebrating MEN
UNASHAMEDLY GAY
RETRO and VINTAGE.
Nicole Canet, Galerie Au Bonheur du Jour
11 rue Chabanais
75002 Paris
33 (0)1 42 96 58 64
from Tuesday to Saturday 2:30 to 7:30 pm
www.aubonheurdujour.net