There is something tragic yet naïve about his 1991 painting Study for the Illiad, populated by endearingly clumsy naked figures of men and women: standing, stumbling, falling, and laying down. (bettycuninghamgallery.com)
Sharkey's club gave Bellows the opportunity to study nearly naked figures in raw, bloody struggle, surrounded by the mounting chaos of the crowd around the ring. (brooklynrail.org)
Berlinde De Bruyckere's Quan (2009) features a frail, naked figure dissolving into a mattress. (whitechapelgallery.org)