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Nude Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
The Captive, Study of a Naked Man, Red Chalk Study, Carracci Gallery
By Annibale Carracci
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 11 x 5 1/2 inches (28 x 14 cm)
Mounted
This 18th century drawing is after the work of the 16th Century Italian artist Annibale Carraci. This figure, along with many more, were painted by Carraci in the Palazzo Farnese in a space now known as the Carracci gallery. The Carracci gallery is considered as one of the most important Renaissance commissions in Rome. This figure, along with five other companions, were known as 'The Captives'. They were designed by the artist to appear trapped in the architectural spaces in the walls and sat around the fresco that featured Perseus and Andromeda.
Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) was the most admired painter of his time and the vital force in the creation of Baroque style. Together with his cousin Ludovico (1555–1619) and his older brother Agostino (1557–1602)—each an outstanding artist—Annibale set out to transform Italian painting. The Carracci rejected the artificiality of Mannerist painting, championing a return to nature coupled with the study of the great northern Italian painters of the Renaissance, especially Correggio, Titian, and Veronese.During the 1580s, the Carracci were painting the most radical and innovative pictures in Europe. Annibale not only drew from nature, he created a new, broken brushwork to capture movement and the effects of light on form. His Two Children Teasing a Cat marks a new chapter in the history of genre painting.
The revolutionary potential of this new kind of painting would be taken up over a decade later by Caravaggio, who must have seen the Carraccis’ work while traveling from Milan to Rome in 1592.The Carracci saw themselves as heir to a great artistic tradition, and they consciously situated themselves within the history of northern Italian painting. Annibale and Agostino visited Parma and Venice to study the work of Correggio, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Their altarpieces and secular fresco cycles in Bologna reasserted a northern Italian emphasis on color, light, and the study of nature, but with a new focus on emotive communication. Their success led to Annibale being invited to Rome to work for the powerful Farnese family (1595). Ludovico remained in Bologna to direct the academy they founded. Through the next generation of painters—Francesco Albani, Domenichino, Guido Reni, Giovanni Lanfranco, and Guercino—Bolognese painting became the dominant force in seventeenth-century art.
In Rome, Annibale’s painting was transformed through his first-hand encounter with classical antiquity and the art of Michelangelo and Raphael. Individual scenes of ancient mythology are surrounded by an elaborate illusionistic framework with feigned statues, in front of which sit muscular nude figures seemingly lit from the actual windows (Galleria Farnese ceiling). The corners are opened to painted views of the sky. When unveiled in 1600, the ceiling was instantly acclaimed as the equal of any work in the past. In combining northern Italian naturalism with the idealism of Roman painting, Annibale created the basis of Baroque art. His only challenger in Rome was Caravaggio, whose relation with the past was combative rather than assimilative. Moreover, Caravaggio’s art...
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18th Century Renaissance Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Figure Study (Standing Male)
Located in Chicago, IL
A black and white figure study of a nude male, from 1951, by artist Harold Haydon. Matted to 24" x 20". Provenance: Estate of the Artist. Estate stamped on reverse.
Harold Emers...
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1950s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Female nude
Located in PARIS, FR
Léon-Ernest Drivier (1878-1951)
Female nude
Black stone and red chalk on paper
Signed lower left
31 x 23.5 cm
Provenance: former collection of Marie de Rohan Chabot, Princess Murat, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Revery (Original Pastel Drawing)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A wonderfully accomplished pastel of a woman lost in thought, with a subtle sensuality about it. She has not been idealized into a classical trope, but is a real person, we can tell....
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Ernest Procter (1886-1935) - Early 20th Century Graphite Drawing, Life Study
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine life drawing depicting a seated woman partially covered with material. The artist captures the model in a delicate hand showing primary sketches in preparation to the upper ri...
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20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Voici ma Soeur - Drawing by D. Delapierre - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, dated and titled. Matting included. Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Dancer Study
By Christian Bérard
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink on paper, 27cm x 20cm, (54cm x 48cm framed). Provenance: Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
Bérard, an artist, fashion illustrator and de...
Category
1930s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Carmel, California, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamped, verso, for VIctor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a nude man with a bandana in tones of brown and a...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
1900s French Atelier Academic Drawing Portrait of Classical Male Nude 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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Early 20th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
The Posing Nude - Pencil Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Posing Nude is a Drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous french artist in the early 20th century.
Good conditions with some foxing.
The artwork is rep...
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Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Nude Female - Italian British art Edwardian nude portrait drawing female artist
Located in London, GB
This is a fine detailed and superbly executed Edwardian drawing by Estella Canziani which dated to circa 1911. Drawn by one of the leading artists of the day, it is a very striking a...
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1910s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Phil Richards
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and gouache on paper, titled ‘Phil Richards’ and dated ‘Friday Dec 8 72’ (lower left), 64cm x 48cm (72cm x 56cm framed).(Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso)). the picture is framed behind UV glass
Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elizabeth Arden. He was also an accomplished portraitist. His work is celebrated in Brian Stonehouse...
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1970s Post-War Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Under the Matterhorn - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Under the Matterhorn - Acrylic on Canvas
A sleepy village sits under the shadow of the Matterhorn in this Swiss-style painting by an unknown artist. A handful of lights illuminate w...
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20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tuscan Florentine Female Nude Portrait Drawing 20th century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
Pencil on paper 32.5 x 23.5 cm.
The subject is a double study of a female nude.
It's signed at the bottom right, "U. Capocchini".
Ugo Capocchini was an Italian artist. He won many ...
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1930s Other Art Style Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Reclining Nude 2" Robert Gilberg 1950s Ink Brush Drawing on Japanese Rice Paper
Located in Arp, TX
Robert Gilberg (1911-1970)
"Reclining Nude 2"
c.1950s
Ink on Japanese rice paper with writing
21.75"x9.75 unframed
Signed in pencil lower right
Category
1950s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper
Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude
Monotype in colors, 1936
Signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil (see photo)
Annotated: "Orig. Monotype," dated Munchen 8 Sept. 1936"
Condition: Excellent
Image/plate size: 12 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches
Provenance: Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago
Hans Hermann...
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1930s Romantic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
'Après Le Bain', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp verso for Victor di Gesu (AmerIcan, 1914-1986) and drawn circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the C...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Study of a Male Nude (Original Thomas Hart Benton, Signed & Authenticated)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A rare ORIGINAL and authenticated pen-and-ink drawing with a fine provenance, and a wonderful drawing at that, by legendary American Scene artist Thomas Hart Benton. Though we are most familiar with his WPA-era paintings of rural Midwestern scenes, his drawings are less familiar - but they dramatically demonstrate his superb draftsmanship. The work as framed measures 19.5" x 15.25"; unframed, the artwork measures 14.5" x 10.25". Fine condition. Comes with a copy of a certificate of authenticity: provenance: Savor Gallery, New York, NY; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY. Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans
The following bio information was taken from AskArt:
"Important realist painter of the regional school, muralist, printmaker, teacher, writer.
A member of the famous Missouri political family, Tom Benton...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mother and child
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Frame with glass pane and wood and gold plastic edge
37 x 32 x 1 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Academie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
"Standing Figure" Nude in Charcoal and Color Pencil on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Standing Figure" Nude in Charcoal and Color Pencil on Paper
Beautiful modern figure drawing of a nude woman by Bay Area Artist George Wishon (A...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Color Pencil
"Seated Figure" Nude in Pastel and Color Pencil on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Seated Figure" Nude in Pastel and Color Pencil on Paper
Beautiful modern figure drawing of a nude woman by Bay Area Artist George Wishon (Ameri...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Color Pencil
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
An elegant, cabinet-sized Post-Impressionist graphite drawing of a young woman, sh...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Baby
Located in PARIS, FR
Tsuguharu Léonard FOUJITA (1886-1968)
Sketch of a baby
Graphite pencil and ink on paper
Bears the stamp of the succession Kimiyo Foujita in the lower right corner
15,7 x 11,8 inch
Pr...
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Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Abstract Figure Study of a Nude Woman Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Jamie, is an American artist born in Washington, D.C. in 1970. He was educated in the Metropolitan Washington D.C. area and received his art instruction from the prestigious Corcoran...
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Late 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
(Abstract Mythological Landscape) Untitled, 1965, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1965. Paper Size: 11 x 14 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s graduate studies...
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1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Seated Female Nude
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) stands as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. She is renowned for her monochromatic sculptural wooden constructions.
However, it is im...
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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (Abstract Female Nude), 1963, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original painting on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate...
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1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
Pencil Sketch of Girl Nude Posing - Early 20th Century by Bruno Beran
By Bruno Beran
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Bruno was born in 1888 in Bruenn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the youngest son of a well-to-do family of textile manufacturers.
Bruno was a delicate child, but...
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1930s Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Standing Female Nude
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Colored chalks on tan Strathmore paper, c. 1975
Signed in chalk upper right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Housed in an 8 play acid free rag matting
S...
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1970s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Yvonne Posant by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 - Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne Posant by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paulémile-Pissarro-, and titled lower rig...
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1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) A Mythological scene, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
A Mythological scene
Pen and black ink on paper
Bears an old inscription with the name of the artist on the lower left bo...
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1770s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988), estate stamp verso and created circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Ch...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Standing Nude - British 1946 exhibited art female portrait - Royal Academician
Located in London, GB
An original 1946 drawing painted by Royal Academy artist Christopher Sanders. A fine example of a Modern British nude drawing by an artist who exhibited hundreds of times at The Roya...
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20th Century Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Nude in Negligee /// Contemporary Female Artist Watercolor Figurative Nude Lady
By Emilia Castaneda
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Emilia Castañeda (Spanish, 1943-)
Title: "Nude in Negligee"
*Signed by Castaneda in pencil lower right
Circa: 1980
Medium: Original Pen & Ink and Watercolor Drawing on wove paper
Framing: Recently framed in a contemporary gold moulding from Spain and double matting from Holland. All archival
Framed size: 23.75" x 20"
Image size: 12.25" x 8.5"
Condition: In excellent condition
Biography:
Emilia Castañeda Martínez (born 7 November 1943) is a Spanish painter. She was born in Madrid, but moved to Barcelona with her family as a child. She began training in 1956 at the academy of the painter Víctor Esteban Ripaux and at Escola de la Llotja in 1959 and Escuela Massana in 1969. By the 70s she had finished her studies and became a professional painter. Her works focus on the nude, generally placed in an abstract and dreamlike background that include objects that offer clues to the story told by the central figures. Her work has been compared with that of modernists such as Gustav Klimt, Anglada Camarasa...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Ink
Nude - British Art Deco drawing reclining erotic female nude portrait RA artist
Located in London, GB
An original circa 1940 drawing painted by Royal Academy artist Christopher Sanders. A fine example of a Modern British nude drawing by an artist who exhibited hundreds of times at Th...
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1940s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Pencil
"Pink Cheeks" American Modernist Robert Gilberg 1950 Ink and Pastel Nude Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Robert Gilberg (1911-1970)
"Pink Cheeks"
c.1950s
Ink and pastel on paper
12"x13.75" unframed
Unsigned
Good Condition - Wear consistent with age and history. Deep creases on upper le...
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1950s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pastel
"Nude with Hand on Hip Leaning Against Chair" Joseph Delaney, African-American
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Delaney
Nude with Hand on Hip Leaning Against Chair, circa 1935
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
Sight 12 x 8 inches
Provenance:
Sacks Fine Art, New York
Private Collection, New York
African-American artist Joseph Delaney was a folk-expressionist painter who loved New York City, both as a subject for painting and the spectacle and experience of ever-changing life and vitality. Of the city, he said: "The curtain goes up on the stage of life every time we walk into the street. In spite of New York's being the most congested city I have been in, and know about, by and large, it's just people on the move. I have enjoyed more than I can say seeing people and hearing them speak about things they love and enjoy."
Delaney, the son of a Methodist minister, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1904, the ninth of ten children. It was in church that Delaney and his older brother, Beauford, began to express their art talent by drawing on Sunday School cards. He attended school there, leaving the Knoxville Colored High School at the end of the ninth grade. The next few years were spent doing odd jobs around town (caddy at the Cherokee Country Club, bell hop at the Farragut Hotel) until leaving for Chicago around 1924, where he served three years with the National Guard. He returned to Knoxville in 1929, selling insurance and helping found the city's first black Boy Scout unit.
In 1930, Delaney went to New York City, studying at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton, George Bridgman and Alexander Brooke. Other students there at the time included Jackson Pollock, Henry Stair, and Bruce Mitchell.
In 1932, he exhibited in the first Washington Square Outdoor Art Show. He would continue to do so for the next forty years, working as a sketch artist there, drawing such celebrities as Eartha Kitt, Arlene Francis, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Tallulah Bankhead. Delaney would spend fifty-six years living and painting in the area of lower Manhattan, SoHo and Union Square.
From 1934-1940, Delaney worked for the WPA (Works' Progress Administration) on projects in New York City including the Index of Design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pier 72 mural, and the Story of the Recorded Word mural at the Public Library. He also taught at Harlem and Brooklyn settlement houses and the Art Students League while exhibiting his paintings in his studio, art galleries and other exhibitions.
In 1942, Delaney received a Julius Rosenwald grant of $1200.00 to travel, sketch and later paint the Eastern seaboard. In 1964, he was a sketch artist for the New Orleans exhibit and later the Ghana exhibit at the New York City World's Fair. From 1978-1980, he worked for CETA, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, as an artist in residence at the Henry Street Settlement.
In 1979, Delaney's brother, Beauford, died in Paris at St. Anne's Hospital, an insane asylum. Delaney paid over $6,000 to the French government for taxes, storage, and shipping, to have Beauford's art and personal effects shipped to the U.S.
The University of Tennessee would figure strongly in Delaney's life. In 1970, the artist had an exhibition there, and his painting, "V-J Day, Times Square", was added to their collection. In 1986, the Ewing Gallery exhibited, "Joseph Delaney: A Retrospective," as part of the Homecoming '86 Festival. In that year, author Alex Haley...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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
Pencil, Graphite, Chalk, Laid Paper
1900s Original French Atelier Life Drawing Posed Man Head in Hands
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Two Male Nudes by Anthony Sisti Circa 1930's
Located in Rochester, NY
Two male nude studies by Tony Sisti. Sisti was a master draftsman. With just a few lines he captures the moment. Sisti was a professional boxer and an accomplished artist.
A long-...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Nude Couple, Pastel Drawing Signed Erik Miran 1976
Located in Pasadena, CA
A naked couple is depicted in a pastel on framed paper.
The drawing seems to be a studio study signed Erik Miran and dated 1976 .
The couple is characteristic of modern painting in...
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1970s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Male Lying Nude
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a drawing from the artist's sketchbooks. This pencil drawing shows a nude male in repose, The drawing is dated November 30 '36 (1936). Clearly the works are authentic and this sketch is signed "Jackson Lee Nesbitt...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
18th Century Italian Old Master Drawing Nude Figure Sketches Male & Female
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Sketches
Italian School, mid 18th century
circle of Pompeo Batoni (1707-1787)
charcoal and pencil, heightened with white chalk, unframed...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Chalk
Reclining Nude - British 40's art nude female portrait Royal Academician artist
Located in London, GB
An original circa 1940 drawing painted by Royal Academy artist Christopher Sanders. A fine example of a Modern British nude drawing by an artist who exhibited hundreds of times at Th...
Category
1940s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
"Reclining Figure" Walt Kuhn, Figurative Nude Line Drawing, American Modernism
By Walt Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn
Reclining Figure, 1935
Signed and dated lower left
Pen on paper
Sight 11 x 15 inches
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Spanierman Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Exhibited:
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Walt Kuhn, December 3 - 31, 1968, no. 71.
Walter Kuhn...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Resting Man (Man relaxes draped only in a small towel)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A rare pencil drawing by John Lear created in 1937, signed and dated in pencil.
John Brock Lear, Jr.
Born: 1910 - Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
Died: ...
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1930s Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
Standing male nude
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Standing male nude with raised elbows, 20th century, Chalk
Technique: Chalk and Charcoal on Paper
Stamp: Lower left Estate stamp,...
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20th Century Symbolist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Graphite on wove paper, heightened with color, c. 1930
Unsigned
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Condition: Very good
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dawson's Auction, Morris Plains, NY, 2001
Boris Lovet-Lorski
Lithuanian/Russian/American
1894-1973
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Boris Lovet-Lorski was born in Lithuania in 1894. His mother died when he was age three. His father was affluent and owned real estate. Boris grew up in a privileged environment. He studied architecture and then fine arts at the Imperial Academy of Art in Petrograd, Russia (now Saint Petersburg). Following the revolution in 1917 and its aftermath, Boris immigrated to Boston to live with his brother. In the 1920’s, his stylized, Art Deco inspired sculptures, lithographs, and paintings proved to be popular among the American elite. He exhibited frequently, holding his first solo exhibition in Boston, 1920. In the following years, Boris exhibited in New York at Marie Sterner Gallery, Jacques Seligmann Galleries and Wildenstein and Company. He lived in Paris from 1926 to 1932 where he befriended Joseph Hecht, and was exposed to the works of Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Contantin Brancusi and Aristide Maillol. In 1932 he returned to America where he became a citizen later in the decade.
Lovet-Lorski exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists (New York), the National Academy of Design (New York), and the Lotos Club (New York), as well as several Parisian salons. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Musée Luxembourg, Bibliotèque Nationale, and the Petit Palais in France, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (A more extensive list of his works in museums follows) He is considered one of the most successful and recognized sculptors of his generation. His creative influence can be seen in many of his contemporary artists.
He died in Los Angeles in 1973.
Regarding his iconic Art Deco sculptures of Cretan Dancers:
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Lovet-Lorski created sculptures of the following major figures
I.J. Paderewski, Prime Minister of Poland
Arturo Toscanini, Italian Conductor
Lilian Gish, Actress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. M. C. Niarchos, wife of Stavros Niarchos
President Abraham Lincoln
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, First Secretary of Defense
Pope Pius XII
Dr. Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician
General Charles De Gaulle, President of the Fourth and Fifth Republic, France
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953-1959
President John F. Kennedy
Works by Lover Lorski are in the following public collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
British Museum, London
Boston University
Brooklyn Museum
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