Los Angeles, CA - Opening with a reception Saturday, October 21 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts at 357 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles presents 'NUDE', an exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture.  This exhibition, with over 50 works, spans more than a century and includes a wide stylistic range as exampled by contemporary artists David Hockney and Raymond Pettibon, Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, Surrealists Roberto Matta and Joseph Cornell and early modernists Arshile Gorky and Henri Matisse, along with Impressionists such as Pierre Auguste Renoir.

Some highlights from the 'NUDE' exhibition include exceedingly rare Renoir pastels originally from the estate of Ambroise Vollard, drawings by Henri Matisse and Arshile Gorky, Pablo Picasso, and an outstanding collection of original graphic works by Egon Schiele.  Other notable rarities include drawings by the French Impressionist, Henri Fantin-Latour, a collage by Joseph Cornell, Willem deKooning’s rare lithograph Bather, and sculptures and drawings by Francisco Zuniga, Robert Graham, Emilio Greco, Gaston Lachaise, Elie Nadelman, Auguste Rodin, and others.

'NUDE' also includes artists John Altoon, Karel Appel, Don Bachardy, Hans Burkhardt, Marc Chagall, Patrick Graham, George Grosz, Stanley William Hayter, David Hockney, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Jeff Koons, Rico Lebrun, Peter Milton, Henry Moore, Jim Morphesis, Raymond Pettibon, Pablo Picasso, Felicien Rops, Georges Rouault, Morgan Russell, Richard Shelton, Raphael Soyer, Ruth Weisberg and Jerome Witkin, etc.

The exhibition which opens October 21, extends through Saturday, December 23, 2006 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, located at 357 North La Brea Ave. in Los Angeles. Read Jack Rutberg Profile; http://www.jackrutbergfinearts.com/JRutbergProfile.html; and

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