"Nudo #1 - #3" 1984, set of 3 etchings, each 230x205mm; 9" x 8", full margins. Edition size 100, each in the first state (of ii). Each signed, titled and from the same numbered set in pencil, lower margin.  All very good impressions [Davenport 57].

Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) was thrust into the national limelight and public notoriety in the 1930s, when his painting "The Fleet's In" was removed from a show of WPA art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art.  He was the enfant terrible at the eye of a censorship storm and was severely castigated by public opinion for portraying uniformed American sailors carousing on shore leave.  Thus began the public life of one of America's greatest artists.

Amidst the controversy, Cadmus continued quietly working, aloof from the prevailing art world issues, movements and controversies of the 20th century. In the 1940s, Cadmus embarked on a lifelong quest of perfecting the male nude as a very special visual endeavor by depicting the subject in a straightforward and non-sensational manner.  His male nudes are among the most beautiful created in the 20th century.  Never crude or shocking, Cadmus' male nudes focus in a classical manner on the beauty of the male body in a manner that emanates from the Renaissance and is axiomatic to the root of Western art.

Cadmus' "Nudo #1 - #3" set of three are each in Larson-Juhl 'Vermeer' burnished silver 26 1/2" x 25" frames.  The outer white linen and inner brownish-green rag mats are acid and lignin free and are protected with Acrylite-OP3 (UV) by CYRO ............. SOLD