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RE: All art should be considered safe for work!
There is a time and a place for everything. Depends what age you are talking about. And what the nudity is meaning to convey. Greek statues are also naked and I wouldn't hesitate to walk past them with a child, but showing them is pointless. Some of the pictures above are about sexuality. Not a suitable topic for young children. Hasn't got anything to do with prudishness but with appealing to the interests of the child.
When I was a kid, I appreciated a lot of highly-sexualized art in other ways. I loved the original Shall We Dance movie for its insight into Japan, and most of the innuendo went right over my head. Which made it fun to watch again as an adult.
I'm pretty sure my 11-year-old goddaughter would appreciate "Girl Blown Away" on a non-sexual level, and if she came back to it when sexually aware would find something new in it that would be a different experience than if she had never seen it before. The political-sexual context of "Proscaenia" I'm sure would go completely unread until she encounters hard-core feminism, but she'd enjoy the dollhouse. She'd probably find "The Garden of Delight" confusing and boring, but honestly so do I.