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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

The studios of Picasso,Monet and Koons / Calm, chaos, canvas

In the Sculptor’s Studio, Paris (January 1911)As well as pioneering aerial photography,
Léon Gimpel, author of this photograph, was the first to have his work published
in colour, in 1907

Photograph: Léon Gimpel/Collection Société Française de Photographie, Paris/Léon Gimpel

Calm, chaos, canvas: the studios of Picasso, Monet and Koons – in pictures

Pablo Picasso at work (1955)

Picasso worked in seven different studios through his life – he casts a solitary figure in front of his easel here.• In the Studio: The Artist Photographed from Ingres to Jeff Koons is at Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, until 17 July 2016

Photograph: André Villers, Adagp, Paris 2016/Succession Picasso

Francis Bacon’s studio (1986)

Bacon’s workpace feels as fractious and disturbed as his paintings

Photograph: Charles Matton, Adagp, Paris 2016

The top 10 female nudes in art

From the ravishing Venus of Urbino, past Ingres's sensual Odalisque, to the feminist riposte of the Guerrilla Girls, the female nude has inspired, enraptured and enraged

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Titian – Venus of Urbino (1536-38)

Venus of Urbino by Titian. Photograph: Nicola Lorusso

No one has ever painted naked women as gorgeously as Titian did. His ravishing Venus is a lover laying her beauty bare, and the recipient of her optical largesse is anyone who happens to stand in front of this painting in the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy. Titian creates with mind-boggling skill the lavish presence of this nude: the rapture of her carnal glory. There's something divine about such beauty. Some people find profundity in religious art, in abstract art, in conceptual art. For me, there's nothing more moving in art than the breasts of the Venus of Urbino.

Juergen Teller – Vivienne Westwood (2013)

Vivienne Westwood No.3, London, 2009. — The conventions of the nude can be enjoyed in limitless ways ... Vivienne Westwood No 3, London, 2009. Photograph: Juergen Teller

Nudity never loses its power. The conventions of the nude can be enjoyed, and challenged, in limitless ways. Vivienne Westwood glories in poses culled from painting as she exults in all the possibilities of nakedness in art, while in her 70s.