I would pay the $33m someone paid for Freud's Benefit Supervisor Sleeping to see Jenny Saville's naked representation of Rupert Murdoch but it is highly unlikely that either painter or subject would be interested in a sitting.
We may be regularly exposed to representations of naked flesh but we only ever see gods and monsters.
They were apparently as happy to snap up saucy images peddled by photographers as they were to study more serious representations of naked women in paintings, drawings and sculptures at the Royal Academy.
"That giant naked woman is a representation of my own body and how I see it," she said.
These works in turn spotlight Michelangelo's representation of the naked female form.
It is a representation of a naked man and woman with apelike facial features walking arm in arm that will stop you in your tracks.
Club Deportivo Palencia have launched a flesh-themed kit featuring a representation of the naked body to fire up their bid to reach Segunda B. "We give our skin" is the slogan for the specially designed strip, which replaces their regular purple one for the new few weeks.
Brooklyn Museum of Art has done the honours for hip-hop, when it is not provoking the easily angered mayor Rudy Giuliani with a representation of Jesus Christ as a naked woman.
The 1982 Atari 2600 game Custer's Revenge, in which players controlled a stick-man representation of General Custer tasked with raping a naked Native American woman tied to a pole, attracted plausible criticism.
We wheeled our own multi-racial baby, privileged in time, color, and status, through these cruel representations of her baby kin and past the giant, naked white-sugar sphinx.
IN 1914, a suffragette in London's National Gallery, affronted by what seemed to be an immodest representation of womanhood, attacked a painting of a reclining naked Venus.
