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Nude Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Contemplative Seated Nude Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 19 x 11.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: priva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Female- Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided
10.5 x 8.25 inches
provenance: private collection ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of a Boy - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artist depicts a delicate...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
MODERN EVE - nude by Paula Craioveanu - original art ultramarine blue
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Part of my Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper.
Shipped rolled in a tube. Shipping anywhere in the world. Registered airmail.
This piece, Modern Eve, is a striking and expressive work that beautifully captures the essence of Matisse’s influence while maintaining its own contemporary voice. The use of ultramarine tempera on paper creates a dynamic interplay between form and negative space, with the vivid blue standing out against the warm, neutral background.
The loose, fluid brushstrokes give the figure an organic, almost spontaneous energy, reminiscent of Matisse’s Blue Nudes series. The dripping paint and gestural lines evoke a sense of movement, reinforcing the sensuality of the pose.
The arching posture of the figure conveys ecstasy or release, with an elongated, exaggerated form that enhances emotional intensity. The simplification of anatomy aligns with Fauvist principles—prioritizing emotional impact over precise realism.
The choice of ultramarine is bold and effective. It has historical significance in art, often associated with spirituality and depth (as seen in Yves Klein’s monochromes), yet here it is used in a raw, expressive manner that makes the figure feel both powerful and ethereal.
The use of tempera adds a unique opacity and depth to the strokes. It gives the painting a sense of immediacy, as if the artist captured the moment in a burst of inspiration. The visible brushwork and drips make the process part of the final aesthetic, reinforcing a connection between artist and viewer.
The clear homage to Henri Matisse’s Blue Nude series is well-executed but doesn’t feel derivative—it builds upon his legacy while pushing it forward. The sensual yet modern representation of the female body echoes the freedom of early 20th-century modernists but with a contemporary edge. The piece also recalls the expressive, raw energy of Egon Schiele’s linework, albeit with a more fluid and painterly approach.
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Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it.
I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting.
My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration.
My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in color and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings."
Paula Craioveanu
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Eve Asleep, nude, female figure graphite drawing archival paper monochromatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently discovered 1984 oversize nudes on mylar and/or archival papers were created working quickly, from a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawi...
Category
2010s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Graphite
Nude Laying Over the Edge of the Bed in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Laying Over the Edge of the Bed in Pastel on Paper
Elegant pastel composition of a nude woman by an unknown artist (20th Century). The model is laying on her back, with her hea...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Duchándose, May 27th. Watercolor and ink on archival paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor and ink on archival paper
Image size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio, Figurative painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio 2016, by Celso Castro
Crayon Pastel on archival paper
Image size: 60 H in. x 38 in. W
Unframed
On The back of the painting:
Abstract, 1986
Pencil a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pastel, Archival Paper
Katya
Located in Zofingen, AG
This is one of those sketches where Evgeniy Monahov first used an industrial marker together with tempera - the thick velvety black of his lines expands the tonal range of the delica...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Permanent Marker
In the Mirror - original female nude by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"In the Mirror", nude, sepia red on paper.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio.
Drawing in mat, for display purposes!
1s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Archival Paper
Jimi Hendrix 1969 original vintage art U.S. Tour Moon Maidens
Located in Southampton, NY
This is the Original 1969 drawing of the two nude figures that appear on the Jimi Hendrix Spring 1969 concert poster. It is as much of a collectors item as it is a fine work of art. This was given to Hendrix to approve the art for the final poster. You can see images of the full 1969 poster in this listing. David Byrd referred to these women as "Moon Maidens" The art is Pencil on iridescent tracing paper, Matted with it's original "Electric Purple" matt, as done by David Byrd. The original drawing of this full image was used for the 1969 Spring U.S concert tour and it was also used as the image for Hendrix's press kit in 1969 which was given to concert promotors to advertise the concert. David met with Jimi to approve his original drawing. The art measures 7 x 8", and the matted and framed art measures approx. 15x16".
David created ALL of the Art for Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, including their Program covers and Rock posters...
Category
1960s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Vellum, Pencil
Edwin Carrillo, 24 de junio. Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Edwin Carrillo, 24 de junio, 2016 by Celso Castro
Charcoal on cardboard
Image size: 40 H in. x 29 in. W
(Erase signature with white paint)
Unframed
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Undefined by medium...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Charcoal
Willem de Kooning, (Reclining Female Nude) A Special Gift For His Dear Friends
Located in San Francisco, CA
With such fondness, 20th-century artistic titan Willem de Kooning gifted this charcoal sketch on paper to his close East Hampton friends Roger and Lucia Wilcox...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
French Expressive Charcoal Sketch of a Standing Nude Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Standing Nude Figure
black pen drawing on artist paper
painting: 13.75 x 9 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 25 x 19 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French origin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil
Harem: Sexy Nude Girl Illustration for Playboy. First Black Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Playboy Magazine ran this joke cartoon illustration in color on page 43 for the October 1960 edition.
Signed lower right.
The work is executed on a heavy Whatman Illustration board....
Category
1960s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil, Gouache
Rolling Stones original 1969 Naked Lady drawing from the Concert tour Poster
Located in Southampton, NY
A new coffee table book has just been released titled "Poster Child" The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd. This original drawing is featured on page 104 of the...
Category
1960s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Vellum, Pencil
Flying High - Female Nude in Interior - by Paula Craioveanu - original art
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Flying High - original unique female nude drawing.
Part of my Blue Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper.
Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio. Shipping anywhere in the world, flat rate. Registered airmail.
Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Female and Male Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Female and Male Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of...
Category
1960s Renaissance Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Renaissance Male Foot Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Foot Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of I...
Category
1960s Renaissance Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Nudo maschile nella posa di un satiro dormiente. XIX secolo
Located in Firenze, IT
Disegno del nudo maschile.
Dal 19 ° secolo
Disegno su carta leggermente colorata.
In buone condizioni.
Il disegno rappresenta un uomo sdraiato, che si abbandona al sonno.
In una posa...
Category
19th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
I Can’t Stay Away From You 1980s Vintage Painting Mature Female Nude In Cornwall
By John Emanuel
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Emanuel .
English ( b.1930 ).
I Can’t Stay Away From You.
Watercolor & Ink.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 28.3 inches x 19.9 inches ( 72cm x 50.5cm ).
Frame size 35.2 inches x...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Room with a View - male nude blue drawing by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Room with a View
Male nude, made with ultramarine blue tempera, inspired by Matisse.
70x50cm / 27.5x19.5in
Shipped rolled in a tube directly from Florida.
Part of Nude Men series.
T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Archival Paper
Untitled, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, 1996 by Celso Castro
Pencil on archival paper
Image size: 39 H in. x 48 in. W
Sheet size: 43 H in. x 59 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s w...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil
Duchándome. Nude watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchándome, by Celso Castro
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor, ink, and pastel archival paper. NUDES 2D
Individual size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
2018
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Spartan Warriors (male nude fantasy)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Amazing fantasy group male nude composition by American artist, Robert Frederick Vorreyer (1924-2016). Graphite pencil on paper, image measures 15 x 27 inches; 27.5 x 40.5 inches framed. signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation.
VORREYER, Robert Frederick
Robert Frederick Vorreyer (August 25, 1924 - January 27, 2016) was truly a master of graphic media. The power and dynamics of Robert's graphics are in the use of negative space in the skillful rendering of the human form. Handled with great sensitivity and dignity, the figures seem to be alive with a sharpness that challenges the eye of the beholder. Robert was born in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago, IL and graduated from the Downers Grove High School with and art scholarship to an accredited college. He attended the University of Illinois, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Royal Academy in London as well as studying independently with various artists. Robert was a World War II special service artist in Camp Robinson, AR and eventually became the art director for TLVA Infantry/Airborne School in Fort Benning...
Category
1990s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Male Nude. Charcoal Drawing
Located in Brecon, Powys
Really well executed male study
Charcoal on paper. Matted
Drawing in good order
Image 25" x 18". matted 33" x 25"
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Sunlit Serenity. Art Nouveau style nude women, watercolor on 640 gsm paper
Located in Oslo, NO
This watercolor painting portrays two women resting in the soft glow of the afternoon sun, reminiscent of Gustav Klimt's decorative style. The tender sunlit skin tones contrast with ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Little witches 5
Located in Genève, GE
Erotic scene
Work on paper
Wooden frame with glass pane
46.6 x 37.5 x 1.2 cm
Category
1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
English Antique Portrait Sketch of Female Nude Seated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Seated
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on yellowed thin artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 15 x 18 inches
provenance: f...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
SUMMER - female nude - by Paula Craioveanu - original sepia drawing
Located in Forest Hills, NY
SUMMER - female nude - by Paula Craioveanu - original sepia drawing. Sepia ink drawing on watercolor paper inspired by Matisse's nudes. Original, unique, not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Seated Nude Figure
By Franz Kline
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower left): FK [in monogram]
EX COLL.: the artist; to I. David Orr (1904–1997), Long Island, New York; to his estate, 1997 until the present
Originally trained as a fig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Nude Figure Breast & Hand Platinum Palladium Print on Wove by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Nude Figure with Breast & Hand, Platinum Palladium Print on Wove by Contemporary British Artist, Malcolm Pasley (Born 1956)
Art measures 14 x 11 inches...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Platinum
Academic drawing: L'Écorché by Houdon. Italian school. 19th century. 59x44cm
Located in Firenze, IT
Academic drawing: L'Écorché by Houdon. Italian school. 19th century. 59x44cm
This represents the statue of the écorché by the French sculptor Houdon.
Sculpture - Anatomical model o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nude Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original charcoal drawing by Russian-French artist, from the Art Deco period.
22 x 10 Inches without the frame.
George Artemoff
1892 - 1965
George Artemoff was born in the Don Va...
Category
1920s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Nude - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Pencil Drawing on Paper
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Reclining Nude Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 19 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: priva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Mid Century French Sketch of a Standing Male Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Male Study
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 25 (height) x 19 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Female Figure Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
signed and stamped
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 18.75 x 11 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
“The Embrace”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed oil pastel drawing of a man and woman embracing. Artist is unknown. Initials in red lower right “Ho”. Appears to be a date below the ...
Category
1920s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Duchándome, May 28th and Duchándose, May 27th, Watercolor Nudes
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchándome May 28th and Duchándose May 27th by Celso Castro-Daza
From the Duchándome Series
Individual size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
Overall Size: 19.5 in. H x 27.5 in. W
2018
Unfra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Untitled 31 (Figurative Drawing Polaroid Transfer of a Young Female Nude)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative, Polaroid transfer of a nude female
PT 31, Made in 1996
9.5 x 6.5 inch image size
22 x 15 inch paper size
signed & dated lower right
Uniq...
Category
1990s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Polaroid
Early 20th Century Painting of Josephine Baker by Master Illustrator Paul Colin
By Paul Colin
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Colin (French, 1892-1985)
Josephine Baker, 1925
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
14 x 10 inches
27.25 x 23 inches, framed
Paul Colin (27 June 1892 – 18 June 198...
Category
1920s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Life study of a male nude in repose - European School, late 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
European School, late 18th century. Red chalk with primo pensiero in graphite on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (215 x 293 mm). Scattered light handling wear and multiple s...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper, Pencil, Graphite
1951 Graphite on Paper Figure Study-Standing Male- Torso by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 black and white figure study of a nude male, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to: 24" x 30". Provenance: Estate of the Artist. Es...
Category
1950s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
'Female Nude', by R.V. Goetz, Charcoal on Paper Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This Richard Vernon Goetz Drawing on Paper from the mid-20th Century features a standing female nude rendered in black and grey cross-hatch lines of Charcoal and Conté Crayon.
The we...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Conté
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Elegant Nude Lady Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
stamped
size: 18.5 x 11.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provena...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Kneeling Nude Study Poised Elegance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Lady Study
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
stamped
size: 18 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: priv...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Entanglement XIII by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract painting, woman, body
Located in Paris, FR
Entanglement XIII is a unique oil on paper painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 57 × 42 cm (22.4 × 16.5 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Ballerina in Repose #2, ' by James Cobb, Charcoal and Conte Drawing, 2021
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 13.5" x 13.5" charcoal and conte drawing by artist James Cobb captures a ballerina in a seated, relaxed pose. The work is on toned gray drawing...
Category
2010s Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Conté, Charcoal
French Pointillist Reclining Male Nude Mid 20th Century Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pointillist Reclining Male Nude
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
initialled lower right
gouache painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 5.5 x 10 inches (overall the sheet measures 8.25 x 11.9 inches)
provenance: private collection of the artists work, Provence, France
Condition report: very good, colour strong, thin paper, margins of sheet show light marks but image is clean
Beautiful Neo-Impressionist 1940's French pointillist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Pierre COMBET-DESCOMBES (1885-1966), Female Nude from behind, 1928, Charcoal
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre COMBET-DESCOMBES (1885-1966)
Female Nude from behind, 1928
Charcoal on paper
Signed with the stamp lower right
Dated "26 sept 28" and annotated lower left
Size of the work : 4...
Category
1920s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
ENTANGLED- original large blue love couple by Paula Craioveanu 39x27in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Entangled", large scale drawing pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse. Couple in love, part of Nude in Interior series. Shipped rolled in a tube, from Florid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pencil, Archival Paper
Italian Art nouveau Nude Boudoir painting woman warming herself by a stove Paris
By Tito Lessi
Located in Norwich, GB
A very pure and tender rendition of a female nude. Elegant in its simplicity, the artist's model, is warming herself by a large stove!
It is a work by Tito Lessi dating from circa 1890. Lessi was born in Florence, Italy and studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts, under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri...
Category
1890s Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
1929 "Nude with Cubist Sculpture" Charcoal Female Nude Drawing UCBerkeley Artist
Located in Arp, TX
John Bowers Collection
Nude With Cubist Sculpture
1929
Charcoal on Paper
18.75"x24.75", unframed
Dated in charcoal lower right
Came from a portfolio owned by artist John Bowers
John was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree by the University of California, at Berkeley.
His collection included pieces by fellow student artists and professors at UC Berkeley including Fred Reichman...
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Early 20th Century Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
1900s Original French Atelier Life Drawing Nude Woman Sculpture
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Life study drawing
original atelier drawing
by the French artist, Jeanne Nachat (1898-1984)
Nachat attended the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts in Pa...
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20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Nude Series (Male Nude in Desert with Cacti), Lowell Nesbitt - Drawing
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Nude Series (Male Nude in Desert with Cacti)
Year: 1989
Medium: Colored pencil on Arches paper
Size: 50.25 x 35.5 inches
Inscription: Signed...
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1990s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Mid Century French Study of a Seated Nude Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Nude Study
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 25 (height) x 19 (width)
Stamped: Ver...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
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The human body has long been a favorite subject for artists throughout history. Nude drawings and watercolor paintings reveal the human figure but also the social ideals, traditions and cultural beliefs around people and bodies at the time they were created.
Nude drawings and watercolors offer a unique way to illustrate the human body. Drawings in pencil or ink can quickly capture movement or poses while watercolor is more expressive of a moment. Different cultures utilize the same materials differently, and each piece provides a singular glimpse into the perspectives and expectations around people’s bodies.
Artists like Francisco Goya, Gustav Klimt and Lucian Freud — who painted his friends, his lovers and his children — found acclaim and success by creatively depicting the human body. More recently, as contemporary artists have followed the figurative muse, many painters are exploring the nude as a subject for their drawings and works in watercolors.
If you’re thinking about bringing this kind of work into your space, there are many ways to consider how to arrange wall art in your living room or elsewhere in your home. Creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design vision together. It allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of nude drawings and watercolor paintings for diverse views and attitudes toward the human form through a range of cultures and times.