Loss of nude confronts that Spanish cubist (6)
I believe the answer is:
braque
'cubist' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'loss of nude confronts that spanish' is the wordplay.
'loss of nude' becomes 'bra' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'confronts' says to put letters next to each other (two parts meet or confront each other).
'that spanish' becomes 'que' ('that' in Spanish).
'bra'+'que'='BRAQUE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for braque that I've seen before include "French cubist painter, d. 1963" , "French cubist painter, Georges" .)