George Frederick Watts OM RA

A pair of 19th Century nude drawings by George Frederick Watts OM RA

1880

William Edward Frost RA (British, 1811 – 1877) Female nude Pen and ink and watercolour 7.1/4 x 4 in. (18.2 x 10 cm.) Provenance: The Maas Gallery, London. No. 13863

William Edward Frost RA (British, 1811 – 1877) Female nude Pen and ink 7 x 4.3/8in. (17.8 x 11 cm.) Provenance: The Maas Gallery, London. No. 13889

Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924 – 2002) Odalisque II Pen on paper 15.3/4 x 9.7/8 in. (40 x 25 cm.) Provenance: The artist’s wife Maria, Nee Figueiredo, gifted to her nephew We h...

Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924 – 2002) Odalisque Pen on paper 15.3/4 x 9.7/8 in. (40 x 25 cm.) Provenance: The artist’s wife Maria, Nee Figueiredo, gifted to her nephew We have 5 other similar examples by this artist all of the same size. Please go to Ottocento's storefront on 1st dibs for further information. These examples were saved from being burnt on a bonfire by the artist’s nephew. Maria, Souza’ wife was sick and tired of Souza’s affairs and was burning many of his studies in the garden when her nephew intervened. These studies are from those. Others saved at the same time were executed in 1952 and is highly likely that these are from the same period. Layered, dynamic, brutally humanistic, the paintings of Francis Newton Souza reveal an artist who never stopped experimenting throughout his six-decade career, perpetually seeking new modes and languages of painterly expression. A founder of the inestimably important Progressive Artists’ Group in Mumbai, he wrote the group’s manifesto and was a crucial intellect in the group’s formation and articulation—as, indeed, he was for Modern Indian art on the whole. He holds an unshakable place among India’s most important and influential Modern painters. Despite the vast sweep of painting styles encompassed by his oeuvre, Souza’s work is unified by an overt sensuality, sometimes violent, sometimes sexual, but devoted above all to the human body as a wild, fragile, noble and corruptible object. He is hardly the first Catholic-raised artist to fixate on the body. Nudes...

A very eye catching and fun abstract of two nude figures by the Modern British artist Roger Hilton. Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World W...

A very eye catching and fun abstract of two nude figures by the Modern British artist Roger Hilton. Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World W...

John Kingerlee. Irish ( b.1936 ). John, 1967. Ink & Paper. Signed & Dated. Image size 11 inches x 8.5 inches ( 28cm x 21.5cm ). Frame size 15 inches x 12.4 inches ( 38cm x 31.5cm )....

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Female back nude, bent forward, 20th century, Charcoal Technique: Charcoal on Paper Stamp: Lower left Estate stamp, Carl Walther....

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Jumping, Female Nude Jumping or Falling, c. 1910, Pen drawing Technique: White heightened Pen drawing and Brush drawing on Paper ...

Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. This is from the God and Goddess Series, Morgan's Supreme Being, nearly 200 deities both new and new takes on tra...

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,...

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Study for "Les Trophées" carbon pencil on thin paper 15.5 x 19 cm Signed lower left In good condition In in its original mount (a tear in th...