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Gentle
By Amrta Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a unique Amrta Art sketch. Delicate and mysterious, Amrta has a way of making her figures feel like they are floating and moving on the page. This piece is on Strathmore Tone...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
'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, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lean
By Amrta Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a unique Amrta Art sketch. Delicate and mysterious, Amrta has a way of making her figures feel like they are floating and moving on the page. This piece is on Strathmore Tone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
Gestural Ink Wash #52, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Gail Ragain presents an abstract portrait of a nude woman bending over the side. Gail approaches the piece with spontaneous bursts of expression, followe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Flowers never dye
Located in THOMERY, FR
Linda Clerget is a French artist known internationally for her paintings with classical and expressionist influences. She works to create a personal language based on the solid found...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Archival Paper
French School, Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 60cm x 42cm, (74cm x 60cm framed). The picture is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academ...
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19th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Study of a Woman Sitting, Graphite Drawing, 19th Century French School
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 x 10 1/2 inches (33 x 27 cm)
Mounted
This is a delicate 19th century academic graphite drawing of a seated female nude in the neoclassical style.
A...
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19th Century French School Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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
Side View Seated Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Side View Seated Female Nude
Graphite on paper, c. 1890's
Unsigned
Provenance:
Rookwood Pottery Factory Collection, Cincinnati
Spanierman Gallery, New York (label)
Drawings from the sketchbook are in the collections of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, New York and the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches
Frame size: 16 x 12 1/2 inches
Frank Duveneck
(1848-1919)
Born in Covington, Kentucky, Frank Duveneck had the birth name of Frank Decker. He became a well-trained academic painter whose work ranged from single figures in interiors to plein air canvases of figures in landscape and often included the depiction of low-life persons. His styles included Realism, Social Realism, and Impressionism, and his work was ever influenced by the dark tones and vigorous brush-strokes of the Munich style, which he learned at the Munich Academy in the 1870s. Art historian Matthew Baigell described Duveneck's mature style as having "loose highlights brushed over ruggedly blocked-out forms emerging from a richly suggestive chiaroscuro."
He apprenticed to a church decorator, Wilhelm Lamprecht, in Cincinnati, and worked in Catholic Churches in Covington, Cincinnati, Latrobe, Pennsylvania and Quebec, Canada. At age 22, entered the Royal Academy of Munich where he intended to further his interest in church decoration but instead veered to fine-art painting on canvas. One of his most influential teachers was realist Wilhelm von Diez, and Duveneck, also impressed by the realism of French painter Gustave Courbet, became known for adopting this revolutionary approach with rich brushwork. In Munich, Duveneck shared a studio with William Merritt Chase.
Returning to Cincinnati, he painted portraits and decorated churches and also taught art classes. At first he did not gain much attention, but an exhibition in Boston in 1875 gained him good attention.
In 1875, he went back to Europe and opened an art school in Munich and also in Poling in Bavaria, and many Americans who became known as "Duveneck's Boys," studied with him. Several years later, he opened his school in Italy where he spent the winters in Florence and the summers in Venice. In 1879, he and his followers went to Venice where he began etching and briefly shared a studio with James Whistler in order to learn from him. He also did sculpture. During this period, his painting changed drastically from dark interiors with heavy, impasto paint to outdoor, plein air painting in much lighter colors giving the appearance of sunlight. Among his students was the future Impressionist painter John Henry Twachtmann, and also Elizabeth Boott, whom he married in 1886 and who died two years later.
In 1888, he returned to Cincinnati where from 1900 he taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He spent the summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts painting...
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1890s American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"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
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...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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...
Category
1930s Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"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...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Color 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...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Nude in Blue - female nude drawing by Paula Craioveanu inspired by Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude in Blue"
Part of my Nude in Interior series.
Female nude, ultramarine blue tempera on blue gray paper, inspired by Matisse.
70x50cm / 27.5x19.5in
Shipped rolled in a tube from...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Paper
Nude. Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing on cardboard by Polish artist Andrzej Szypluk. Monochromatic drawing of a female in nude.
PROVE...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
Gestural Ink Drawing #50, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Gail Ragains portrays an abstraction of a nude woman with gestural brushwork. The direct and unfiltered application of ink washes creates a sense of spon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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...
Category
1970s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Drawing - Love and the Minotaur by Cuban Artist Jesus Nodarse
Located in Brooklyn, NY
For the Love and the Minotaur.
Figurative Pencil Drawing on archival paper. Cuban Artist Jesus Nodarse
11 x 8 inches unframed
THE MAN: Jesús Nodarse Valdés was born in Sagua la ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil
Nude. Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing on cardboard by Polish artist Andrzej Szypluk. Monochromatic drawing of a female in nude.
PROVE...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
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...
Category
1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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, 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...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
'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...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, 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...
Category
1910s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
'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...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
Gestural Ink Drawing #56, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Gail Ragains displays a figurative abstract of a nude woman. Gail approaches the composition with spontaneous bursts of expression, followed by thoughtfu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Gestural Ink Drawing #55, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Gail Ragain displays a nude woman with her leg elegantly raised, standing on her tiptoes. Gail infuses the piece with spontaneous bursts of expression, f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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 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 Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Duchándome en Cuerpo Ajeno May 30th. Watercolor and ink on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchándome en cuerpo Ajeno May 30th, by Celso Castro-Daza
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor and ink on 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 foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
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...
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1930s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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 male torso with washes of light aqua/sage green and accents of neon pink oil pastel. This is a part of Shap's '80s Interiors...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
"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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pastel
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,...
Category
20th Century Symbolist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern 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...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Astraea, a study for the Golden Age fresco at Dampierre by Ingres
Located in PARIS, FR
This beautiful drawing, of great technical virtuosity, is one of the many studies made by Ingres for Astraea, one of the key characters in the Golden Age fresco he painted between 18...
Category
1840s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pencil, 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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, 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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
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
Surreal figure watercolor spanish surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Eugenio Granell (1912-2001) - Surrealist figure. Watercolor
Watercolor measures 29x22 cm.
Frame measures 56x49 cm.
Eugenio Granell was born in La Coruña in 1912. He lived most of his childhood in Santiago de Compostela, a city that marked a large part of his artistic work.
From a young age, he showed a great predisposition to art, specifically to music, and in 1928 he moved to Madrid to study violin at the Escuela Superior de Música. There he met the composer and director Enrique Casal Chapí. It is at this time when he begins to attend political and literary gatherings in Madrid cafes. His circle of friends - such as Benjamín Péret or Wilfredo Lam - brought him closer to the orbit of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM), in which he began to serve in 1935.
At the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, he joined the militias loyal to the republican government to defend the capital and combined this activity with the direction of El Combatiente Rojo, the POUM newspaper. After the war ended, he was doubly persecuted; on the one hand, the victorious fascist army, which tried to get rid of any signs of active resistance against the new regime. On the other hand, Granell would suffer the persecution of his own communist comrades, since, under Stalin's mandate, the POUM and its militancy -of a Trotskyist nature and opposed to the Stalinist line of the Soviet Union- were considered enemies of communism and, therefore, this, condemned to persecutions and murders.
Thus, in 1939, he must move to France. There he finds a reality different from the one he was looking for and went through various concentration camps until, after several attempts, he managed to escape and reach Paris -where he will meet Péret and Lam- to find a way out of his situation, leaving for South America. On the train that takes him to the port of La Havre, he meets Amparo Segarra, a Valencian fleeing Franco's repression, who would become his partner.
They embark to Chile but, given the impossibility of this country to receive more refugees, they divert to the Dominican Republic, where they will settle, now together with Amparo, in the capital, Ciudad Trujillo. There, the artist will become part of the Symphony Orchestra as first violin. In 1941 he met André Breton when interviewing him for the newspaper La Nación. From this meeting a friendship will arise that will last until his death in 1966. In 1944 he publishes the book of stories El hombre verde.
In 1946, only six years after settling in, under the hardening of the Trujillo dictatorship, he refused to sign a letter of adherence to the regime, so they had to leave the country and moved to Guatemala. There he entered as a professor at the School of Plastic Arts, maintaining an intense cultural activity.
At the beginning of the Guatemalan revolution, in 1950, he had to flee the country again, for fear of Stalinist persecution. This time the Granell-Segarra family arrives in Puerto Rico, where the artist will occupy the chair of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities. In these years he published Isla Cofre Mítico -which is tremendously close to the surrealist poetic style- and participated in various collective exhibitions at the Puerto Rican university. Although in Santo Domingo he had collaborated with him on poetry magazines...
Category
1950s Surrealist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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 a bandana in tones of brown and a...
Category
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...
Category
1920s Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
'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...
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Mid-20th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Conté
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...
Category
1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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 Paintings
Materials
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
Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude)
By David Smith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude)
Graphite on paper, c. 1930
Unsigned
Annotated in pencil verso:
"This drawing was made by David Smith in the Matulka class at A. S. L. 1931
Signed
Doroth...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled 8
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Assa, Greddy
Title: Untitled 8
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Unframed Dimensions: 11.75 x 8.25"
Framed Dimensions: 20" x 16.5"
Signature: Pencil Signed
Edition: Unique
Prove...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
