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Nude Men Playing at the Beach

This painting by Raymond Neher of three nude men playing at the beach was found rolled up in the closet after his death along with several other figurative paintings.  While he was living Raymond had told me that not long after he moved to San Francisco he had an exhibition of his figurative art that received a very negative review by one of the local art critics.  I'm not sure now, but I believe the review may have been in the San Francisco Chronicle.  Raymond was deeply wounded by the review, and from that point forward all but abandoned the human form as a subject for his art and moved to landscape painting.  I found this story very sad, not just for the wound that Raymond bore all those years, but also for the fact that Raymond no longer painted figurative art, as he had in my opinion great talent in this art form.

I suspect the naked man with his back to us in the painting is in fact Raymond himself.  He painted many self-portraits and his long torso and the slightly wavy hair of his youth appear to indicate this is in fact him.

Painting of nude men at the beach

 

Nude Men Playing at the Beach by Raymond Neher

Original: Acrylic on canvas, approximately 32 x 26 inches

 

Giclee reproductions of this artwork are available on paper or canvas

Other nudes available at Ariki Art

 

  

 

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