The nude figure has been central to commercial and fine art illustration for well over a century, appearing across concert posters, magazine covers, exhibition prints, and everything in between. In the psychedelic poster movement of the 1960s, the figure became fluid and decorative; in European periodicals like La Vie Parisienne, it carried wit and elegance; in fine art exhibition work, it pushed into surrealism and abstraction. The period originals here span that full range.