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Nude Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Nude Woman from Behind in Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Woman from Behind in Charcoal on Paper
Nude woman laying down by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American, b. 1978). The model is on her side, facing away fr...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
"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...
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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
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...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera
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
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...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Graphite, Chalk, Laid Paper
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...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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 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
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...
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1940s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
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...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
"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...
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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
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
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
Nude Female Torso in Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Female Torso in Charcoal on Paper
Nude woman laying down by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American, b. 1978).
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collectio...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Sam Francisco...
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1930s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
1950s "Hand Over Head I" Mid Century Figurative Ink University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Hand Over Head I"
c 1950s
Ink on paper
14" x 16.5" unframed
Signed in pencil lower right
Came from artist estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
Studied: Newark S...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
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. Stunning sketch of a nude with washes of aqua and pink. This is a part of Shap's '80s Interiors...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
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. 18x24 inch...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Nude Women Bathers Pastel Painting by Catherine Bres-Rhocanges
By Catherine Bres-Rhocanges
Located in Atlanta, GA
This pastel painting by Catherine Bres-Rhocanges (1947 -) is titled "Group of Bathers" and signed on the bottom right corner "Bres-Rhocanges."
Catherine Bres-Rhocanges paints women w...
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Late 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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
Victoire sur les cosmos
Located in PARIS, FR
Shane Wolf is an American artist born in 1976 in Cincinnati.
A first university career in graphic design led him to work for major French industrial brands. He then settled in Annecy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Nude - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a Drawing in pencil realized by Augusto Monari in the Early-20th Century.
Good conditions, including a creamy-colored Passepartout.
The artwork is depicted through confiden...
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Early 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude - 20th Century British chalk drawing of a Female Nude by Frank Dobson RA
By Frank Dobson
Located in London, GB
FRANK DOBSON, R.A.
(1886-1963)
Nude
Signed l.l.: Frank Dobson
Red chalk
Framed
35.5 by 25.5 cm., 14 by 10 in.
(frame size 62 by 51 cm., 24 ½ by 20 in.)
Provenance:
Collection of...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
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
Standing Female Figurative Nude in Watercolor and Pastel on Paper by B. Warde
Located in Soquel, CA
Standing Female Figurative Nude in Watercolor and Pastel on Paper
A woman is depicted standing, presumably pregnant, in the nude with her hand on the small of her back. The artist u...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
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 washes of red and orange. 24x18 i...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Bable
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sin...
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2010s Surrealist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Ink Drawing Man in Suit and Hat with Nude
By Jonathan Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: Hinckley & Brohel Gallery
Jonathan Shahn, Born 1938 has been making sculpture, drawings and prints of the human figure since the early 1960s. He teaches at the Art Studen...
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20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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 torso of a nude man. B...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Male Nude. Charcoal Drawing
Located in Brecon, Powys
Really well executed male study
Charcoal on paper. Matted
Matting a little tired. Drawing in good order
Image 25" x 18". matted 33" x 25"
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Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Rêverie VI
Located in PARIS, FR
Shane Wolf is an American artist born in 1976 in Cincinnati.
A first university career in graphic design led him to work for major French industrial brands....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
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 woman with black hair with orange, green a...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Female Nude Study Black Pencil Drawing by G. Debotoiyche
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stunning woman nude pencil study by Russian painter G. Debotoiyche (20th Century). The representation is very modernistic, with only a few lines drawn to render the whole movement an...
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1920s Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Charles Sims, RA - Nude Drapery Study for the Royal Academy Mural
Located in London, GB
CHARLES SIMS, RA, RWS, RSW
(1873-1928)
Drapery Study for the Royal Academy Arts & Crafts Mural
Pencil, squared for transfer
Unframed, in conservation mount
17.5 by 24 cm., 7 by 9 ...
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1910s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude Women in Charcoal on Paper (Two Sided)
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Women in Charcoal on Paper (Two Sided)
Nude woman laying down by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American, b. 1978). On the ...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nude Girl
Located in Santa Fe, NM
A rare Ink on Paper nude figure drawing by Milton Hebald, beautifully executed on a lovely blue Italian rag paper. Given the stylization, it is likely a study for one of his sculptures. Hebald is regarded as one of the most important American figurative sculptors...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Paper
Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Charcoal on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented through def...
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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
RECLINING NUDES, Signed Original Watercolor Drawing, Warm Gray, Graphite
By Chaim Gross
Located in Union City, NJ
RECLINING NUDES, Signed Original Watercolor Drawing
Chaim Gross (Austrian American, 1902-1991) Original mixed media - watercolor and graphite on paper, hand signed in pencil by Chaim Gross on lower right, very good condition, off-white cream archival acid-free mat, warm metallic pewter color wood frame.
Framed size - 20 x 23 in., 2.5 inch, Image area 12.5 x 16 in.
Frame is included.
About the artist -
Chaim Gross (1902-1991) was a modern American sculptor working in New York City from 1921 until his death in 1991. He was born in 1902 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before immigrating to New York City in 1921.
In New York City, Gross's studies continued at the Educational Alliance Art School on the Lower East Side, led by Russian-American etcher Abbo Ostrowsky. Gross first began to exhibit his work as a student at the Alliance in 1922 (in the late 1920s, he joined their faculty). Gross also attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design from 1922-25, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League in 1926, with sculptor Robert Laurent. In 1926, Gross began to exhibit his sculpture at the Jewish Art Center (then in the Bronx), and in 1927, at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries at 59th Street and Park Avenue. Beginning in 1928, he exhibited at the Whitney Studio Club at 10 West 8th Street (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art), showing a watercolor "Circus" in their 13th Annual Exhibition of Paintings. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition of sculpture at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehudah and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976).
In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture.
In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Graphite
Untitled (Standing Male Nude 1)
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Nude woman mixed media original painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Perico Pastor (1953) - Nude woman - Mixed media
Paper measurements 33x24 cm.
Frame measurements 57x48 cm.
Perico Pastor (La Seu d'Urgell, 1953) is a Catalan painter, designer and illustrator. He studied in Barcelona in 1976 and then emigrated to New York, where he lived for about twelve years. He had great success, publishing his illustrations in magazines such as Harper, Village Voice, Vogue and especially the New York Times. In 1980 he held his first exhibition at the Cornelia Street...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Kneeling Nude by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Charcoal on paper
Located in London, GB
Kneeling Nude by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952)
Charcoal on paper
19 x 27 cm (7 ¹/₂ x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)
Initalled lower middle
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authent...
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20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Concert #IV
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Concert #IV" 1974 is a 2 colors ink drawing on orange Canson et Mongolfier paper by noted Polish artist Barbara Gawdzik Brzozowska...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 - Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
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Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on pape...
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1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Threshold VII
Located in PARIS, FR
Shane Wolf is an American artist born in 1976 in Cincinnati.
A first university career in graphic design led him to work for major French industrial brands. He then settled in Annecy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Watercolor and ink on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented t...
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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Untitled 12
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Assa, Greddy
Title: Untitled 12
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Unframed Dimensions: 11.75 x 8.25"
Framed Dimensions: 20" x 16.5"
Signature: Pencil Signed
Edition: Unique
Prov...
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Late 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Berthomme Saint-André, The Nap, Watercolor, 1925
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Louis BERTHOMME SAINT-ANDRE, France, ca.1925. The nap. With frame: 75x60.5 cm - 29.5x23.8 inches, without frame, just the watercolor: 53x39 cm - 20.9x15.35 inches. Signed lower left "Berthomme St André" (see photo).
Louis Berthommé Saint-André is a figurative painter, fresco painter, decorator, illustrator, engraver, ceramist and French lithographer born in 1905. He comes from rural and commercial France: his father ran a wine and grocery business. In his youth, Louis Berthommé Saint-André was injured by a kick, which left him with a stiff leg, preventing him from driving, among other things. The family left Oise to settle in Saintes, where the artist studied at La Recouvrance. He entered as a student architect with Georges Naud, responsible for the historical monuments of Charente then, in 1921, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris.
Louis Berthommé Saint-André is one of the great representatives of French figurative painting in the 20th century. He was trained at the School of Fine Arts by two very old masters who died during his training: Fernand Cormon (1845-1924) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). He retains from their training the taste for well-learnt techniques, but from his first works, he is part of modernity. His constructions show decomposed forms inspired by Cézanne, while maintaining a keen sense of rigour. He never strayed from realism, but his very colourful, sometimes incisive palette and his freedom in representation gave his painting a bite and an acidity that placed Louis Berthommé Saint-André among the great talents of his time.
Silver medal at the Salon of French Artists where he exhibited from 1924 to 1929, he won the Abd-el-Tif Prise in 1925 and was then the youngest resident of the villa in Algiers. Friend of Jean Launois, in addition to his recognised portraits, he painted Algiers and the Kasbah. His studies of women recall those of Eugène Delacroix, but if his luminous inspiration is due to the Algerian sun, his touch is more Cézanne than purely orientalist. He left Algeria in 1928, to return there in 1931.
Before the war, Berthommé Saint-André exhibited regularly in all the major Salons: from 1928 at the Salon d'Automne, at the Salon des Beaux-Arts (1934 to 1936) at the Salon des Tuileries since 1935. His inspiration is close to surrealism .
During the Occupation, he became very "fauve", in reaction to the darkness of the war. He joined the Resistance, and collaborated with Vaincre (Resistance newspaper).
After the war, he developed a style close to poetic reality (Brianchon, Legueult, Oudot, Terechkovitch, Cavaillès. Caillard, Limouse, and Planson), without however ever being part of the group so called. He is present at the Salon Comparaison, at the Salon of painters Witnesses of our time, is president of the Salon of drawing and water-based painting. He has exhibited solo internationally, in Europe, the USA and Japan in particular. In 1977, he received just before his death, the grand prise of Painters Witnesses of their Time.
He died on October 1, 1977 in Paris.
Bibliography
- Michel Droit. Berthommé Saint-André. Éditions de la revue moderne, 1981
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