Emile Chambon

Naked woman from behind

1944

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 44.5 x 25.5 x 1.5 cm

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 43.7 x 56 x 2 cm

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 58 x 45 x 2 cm

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 52 x 44 x 2 cm

Work on paper Frame with glass pane and wood and gold plastic edge 37 x 32 x 1 cm

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 51 x 60 x 1.5 cm

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

Theo Meier (1908-1982) “A Balinese woman with offerings” Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel. Provenance: Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist) Private collection, London Note: Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return. In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...

Hans Burkhardt regularly created pastels from life models, and this is a lovely example of that. He regularly maintained an interest in figural work throughout his long and diverse c...

Paul MADELINE 1863-1920 Naked woman, study Drawing, pastel on paper Stamp of the signature "P. Madeline" lower right On the back: stamp of the Paul Madeline's sale, 05/11/1978, 3rd s...

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...

Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of nude man bent over. 24x18 inches. Signed. Some p...