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Old charcoal drawing on paper " nude lady with cigarette " Italian school 2Oth
Located in Gavere, BE
Old charcoal drawing on paper " nude lady with cigarette " Italian school 2Oth
This exceptionally beautiful charcoal drawing sits in a brand new frame, and sealed under the authenti...
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Italian School 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Gold Leaf
Femme assise nue avec un bras levé au-dessus de sa tête Seated female nude ...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Femme assise nue avec un bras levé au-dessus de sa tête
Seated female nude with an arm raised over her head
Ink and watercolor on paper, n.d.
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)...
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French School 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Aristide Maillol Charcoal Drawing “Nu De Dos”
Located in Dallas, TX
Aristide Maillol (Fr, 1861-1944)
A very large original charcoal drawing by Aristide Maillol verified by Olivier Lorquin, Director of Galerie Dina Vierny at the Musee Maillol in Par...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Eros - Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Eros is a pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in the 1930s.
Good conditions with slight folding.
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Disegno fronte retro figurativo toscano nudo femminile del XX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Disegno fronte retro matita su carta, 330 x 240 mm.
Su un lato, in verticale, è raffigurato un nudo femminile seduto in un ambiente domestico, colto nell'atto di voltarsi verso lo s...
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Other Art Style 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
Disegno figurativo allegorico italiano stile Decò della prima metà del XX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno in questione rappresenta una figura figura femminile nuda in piedi con le braccia alzate, in una posa solenne come fiero è il suo sguardo, ai cui piedi sta sdraiata una fi...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
The Bathers, Wood-Engraving Drawing Lithograph by John Buckland-Wright
Located in Atlanta, GA
This elegant wood-engraving charcoal drawing lithograph print was designed by John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954). The piece is signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil on the marg...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Paper
Study, preparatory work for “La Princesse”, watercolor and pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Raphael DELORME (1886-1962)
Study, preparatory work for “La Princesse”
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Annotated “La Princesse”
30,5 x 22,5 cm
Small folds and small stains
Born in 18...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Woman in profile, watercolor and pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Raphael DELORME (1886-1962)
Study of a woman in profile
Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
Illegible annotation in the lower right corner
31 x 20 cm
Small needle holes at the to...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Study, preparatory work for “La Princesse”, watercolor and pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Raphael DELORME (1886-1962)
Study, preparatory work for “La Princesse”
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Annotated “La Princesse”
30,5 x 22,5 cm
Small folds and small stains
Born in 18...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
DELMOTTE Marcel. Seated nude. Washed ink drawing.
Located in Paris, FR
Seated nude.
Washed ink and pencil. Signed and dated 1931.
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Expressionist 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Ink
Portrait of a Woman - Drawing by Enzo Benedetto- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Woman is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Enzo Benedetto.
Pencil, ink and Tempera on paper. Hand signed on the right margin. The work is glued on cardboard.
...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink, Tempera
Nude of Woman - Drawing by Emile André Leroy - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an artwok realized by the French Artist Emile André Leroy.
Pastel Drawing on paper. Hand Signed in the left margin.
Good conditions except fo a small tear in the r...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Art Deco Prancing Horse with Female Nude
Located in Miami, FL
Famed Art Deco Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski depicts his signature "Stallion." in this stunningly elegant drawing. It features a nude female that is compositionally and spiritually in...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Standing Male Nude, Arms Upraised (Kouros)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude, Arms upraised (Kouros)
Graphite on wove paper, c. 1930
Signed lower right (see photo)
Possibly exhibited in May 8-June 1,1973 at Alan Stone Gallery entitled Eroti...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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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Other Art Style 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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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Romantic 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
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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Impressionist 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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...
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1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"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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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"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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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
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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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
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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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
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
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Paper, Graphite
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...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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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Contemporary 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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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Academic 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
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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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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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Contemporary 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
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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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original 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 rep...
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Contemporary 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original 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 t...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
Untitled (Seated Nude)
Located in Chicago, IL
A figure drawing, created by Leontine Wallace in 1931. The drawing is inscribed, “Paris á l’Atelier L’hote”
Leontine Wallace studied with André Lhote in Pa...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Pastoral Landscape with Reclining Odalisque and Fruit
Located in Long Island City, NY
This reclining nude portrait of a woman on a picnic makes several different art historical references. The bold, almost neon colors are reminiscent of the tropical paintings rendered by Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The setting harkens back to "Luncheon in the Grass" by Manetl. And the pose is historically associated with sex workers and the goddess Venus, in paintings like "Olympia" by Manet, "Grande Odalisque" by Inges, and even further back like "Venus of Urbino...
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Cubist 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Nude Female Pencil Study Drawing by Marie Louise Simard
Located in Atlanta, GA
This black pencil on paper is a study of a nude standing female, designed by Marie Louise Simard (1886-1963). The hand-written signature is on the bottom left corner with the officia...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude after Michelangelo - Mixed Media by Luigi Russolo - 1933/34
Located in Roma, IT
Nude after Michelangelo is an artwork realized by Luigi Russolo in 1933/34.
Mixed Media on Paper.
cm. 33x24,3.
Good conditions!
Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (Portogruaro, 30 Apr...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Nude after Michelangelo - Mixed Media by Luigi Russolo - 1933/34
Located in Roma, IT
Nude after Michelangelo is an artwork realized by Luigi Russolo, 1933/34.
Mixed Media on Paper.
Good conditions.
Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (Portogruaro, 30 April 1885 - Laveno-...
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Futurist 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Female Nude Study Charcoal and Red Chalk Drawing by Georges Lucien Guyot
Located in Atlanta, GA
French artist Georges Lucien Guyot (1885 - 1972) signed this charming woman nude study.
This painting features a lovely design of a woman getting out of the bath and wiping with a towel. Only a few lines in charcoal and red chalk or sanguine mark the silhouette and posture and capture the model's expression. The red color emphasizes the color of the skin and imbues the lascivious movement. The sketches of the bath towel are only suggested, but it gives the whole thing a lot of softness and an incredible illusion of movement.
Signed on the bottom left corner: Georges Lucien Guyot.
The artist used a technique named "sanguine," or red chalk or crayon. The drawing has a blood-red, reddish, or flesh coloration. It has been popular for centuries for drawing employed by 15th and 16th Century artists such as the great masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
The drawing is ornate with a contemporary wood frame with a red and yellow deep-textured pattern and an off-white matte with acrylic glass protection.
Measurements:
With Frame: 20.87 in. wide (53 cm) x 28.35 in. high (72 cm) x 1 in. deep (2.5 cm).
View alone: 11.44 in. wide (29 cm) x 18.94 in. high (48 cm).
About:
Georges Lucien Guyot (born December 10, 1885, in Paris, where he died December 31, 1972) is a French artist, sculptor, and painter.
From an early age, Georges Guyot showed artistic abilities, but the modest conditions of his parents did not allow him to study art. So he did his apprenticeship with a wood sculptor. Guyot excelled in copying works from the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries but rapidly showed an attraction for nature. This attraction led him to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he could study wild animals and translate his observations into sculptures and paintings.
A familiar figure of Montmartre, Georges Guyot was the guest of the Bateau-Lavoir from the time of Cubism. In 1931, he joined the group of Twelve, created by François Pompon and Jane Poupelet...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Pencil
Italian Impressionist Figurative Portrait Painting Watercolors signed
Located in Florence, IT
The work is titled “The Bathers” and it’s signed on the right corner “CARENA”. The artist depicted a very natural scene in which two naked ladies are chat...
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Other Art Style 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Louise Marie Jossier-Grémillon L'amphore blessée, 1934, watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Louise Marie Jossier-Grémillon
L'amphore blessée (the wounded amphora), 1934,
signed, titled and dated lower left
watercolor on paper
62 x 44 cm
In good condition
In its original f...
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Symbolist 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Studies of Man with Arms Raised
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 56cm x 38cm, (79cm x 60cm framed). Provenance: The Artist’s sister.
From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s Colquhoun was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. Along with that of Robert MacBryde, another artist and Colquhoun’s partner, his work was regularly shown at the Lefevre Gallery in London. This early work is likely to be a drawing from when Colquhoun was at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s.
Known as the ‘Two Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde met at the Glasgow School of Art in 1932 and lived together until Colquhoun’s death in 1962. The pair also exhibited in several group shows at the Lefevre Gallery, including one in February 1946, alongside Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Bacon and Freud. Works were bought by the Arts Council, the British Council, the Contemporary Art Society and the Imperial War Museum. Major art patrons added their work to their collections, including Sir Kenneth Clark...
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Post-War 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Figure Study
Located in London, GB
Black and red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 31cm x 27cm (50cm x 45cm framed).
Delmotte was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and Belgian sculptor. A realist painter at first, he was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century. An impressive list of gallery exhibitions of his work during his lifetime, either independently or as part of a group, indicate that he was a known and successful figure in art worlds of Belgium and Europe. Marcel Delmotte received numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He was named Knight of the Order of Leopold II...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Chalk
Szene aus der Operette "Aventures du roi pausole"
Located in Wien, 9
Mariette Lydis (Vienna 1887 - Buenos Aires 1970) is an Austrian painter and illustrator who was successful in Paris in the 1930s, in Montparnasse and then in Argentina, where she emigrated in 1940. Mariette Lydis was born on 24 August in Vienna, Austria 1887. From 1919 to 1922 she signed her works with the initials MPK for Marietta Pachoffer Karñy, a name derived from her first marriage in 1910 to Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy, who died on 22 April 1922. Subsequently she lived in different cities around Europe, among others: Athens and Florence. She moved to France from 1926 to 1939, during these years she exhibited and became a member of the Salon d'Automne. She befriended Count Giuseppe Govone, the art publisher, in 1928 and married him on 1 August 1934, for whom she illustrated the books of many authors and cultivated a great friendship with Henry de Montherlant, which came about through the publication of a first in 1938 monograph by the author of Les Jeunes Filles. Fearing the German invasion, she travelled to England and then to Buenos Aires in July 1940, where she stayed and published published her latest paintings...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Figure Study
Located in London, GB
Black and red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 31cm x 27cm (50cm x 45cm framed).
Delmotte was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and Belgian sculptor. A realist painter at first, he was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century. An impressive list of gallery exhibitions of his work during his lifetime, either independently or as part of a group, indicate that he was a known and successful figure in art worlds of Belgium and Europe. Marcel Delmotte received numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He was named Knight of the Order of Leopold II...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Milchmädchen mit Kuh / Milkmaid with cow
Located in Wien, 9
Mariette Lydis (Vienna 1887 - Buenos Aires 1970) is an Austrian painter and illustrator who was successful in Paris in the 1930s, in Montparnasse and then in Argentina, where she emigrated in 1940. Mariette Lydis was born on 24 August in Vienna, Austria 1887. From 1919 to 1922 she signed her works with the initials MPK for Marietta Pachoffer Karñy, a name derived from her first marriage in 1910 to Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy, who died on 22 April 1922. Subsequently she lived in different cities around Europe, among others: Athens and Florence. She moved to France from 1926 to 1939, during these years she exhibited and became a member of the Salon d'Automne. She befriended Count Giuseppe Govone, the art publisher, in 1928 and married him on 1 August 1934, for whom she illustrated the books of many authors and cultivated a great friendship with Henry de Montherlant, which came about through the publication of a first in 1938 monograph by the author of Les Jeunes Filles. Fearing the German invasion, she travelled to England and then to Buenos Aires in July 1940, where she stayed and published published her latest paintings...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Preliminary Study for Cretan Dancer Bronze
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Study for Cretan Dancer Bronze
Graphite on tracing paper, 1930
Unsigned
Note: The bronze sculpture measures 24 1/2 x 33 5/8 inches and is signed and dated 1930 on the base (see image on right). It is currently being offered for sale by Taylor Graham Gallery in New York. (see photo)
“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.
Image size: 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
Condition: Repaired tear in the lower left corner (see detail photo)
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...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Nude - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a Drawing in charcoal and watercolor on cream-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the 1930s.
hand-signed on the lower right.
Good conditions with minor folding and cu...
Category
Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Erotic Scene - Pencil Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is an original pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in the 1930s.
The little drawing is in good condition with some folding on yellowed paper.
On the back is the ...
Category
Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Erotic - Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic is an original pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in 1930s.
The little drawing is in good condition on a yellowed paper.
On the back the stamp of the collection by Comtesse Anna Laetitia...
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Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA.)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA)
Graphite on paper, 1931
Signed with the artist's initial "W" lower right corner (see photo)...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Femme assise nue avec un bras levé au-dessus de sa tête Seated female nude ...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Femme assise nue avec un bras levé au-dessus de sa tête
Seated female nude with an arm raised over her head
Ink and watercolor on paper, n.d.
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)...
Category
French School 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Posing Nude - Original Drawing in pencil by George-Henri Tribout - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nude is an original drawing in pencil realized by Georges Henri Tribout in the 1930s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a Creamy colored Passepartout.
Stamp of artist's atelier on t...
Category
Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Reclining Female Nude
By Emil Ganso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal on paper, c. 1933
Signed lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Weyhe Gallery, New York (Ganso's dealer 1925-1941)
Joseph Mark Erdelac, Cleveland, noted collector who had a large collection of Ganso works
Ganso was born in Germany in 1895. At age 14, he apprenticed to a baker and then worked his way to America when he was 17. He worked in bakeries in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati and Akron, Ohio. By 1916, Ganso out of a job, and was living the life of a bohemian in New York City, sometimes on less than 30 cents a week.1
In 1921, Ganso painted a realistic nude on a bedsheet, and was forced by the police to remove it from an exhibition. The bedsheet with the painting was later stolen. He soon had a job baking again at $140 a month, and with time to spare for painting and study. Ganso quit baking in 1925 when a New York dealer gave him financial backing of $50 a week. Ganso prospered from his art after that.
His work is in over 15 American museums, and the Print Club of Cleveland awarded him a $500 purchase prize for a wood engraving. A versatile artist, he painted a variety of subjects.
(from a profile written by Clyde Singer...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite
Signed Giovanni Colacicchi Nude Drawing Psyche 1939 charcoal paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing, signed at the right bottom corner Colacicchi, is a study for the painting Psyche, exhibited for the first time in 1939 at the Ussi Prize-planned by the Florence Academy ...
Category
Other Art Style 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Nude Woman in Chair
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Woman in Chair
Watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil on heavy paper, c. 1930-35
Signed with the artist's Estate stamp lower right (see photo)
Note: ...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cubist Male Nude
Located in Miami, FL
This powerful Cubist male nude is rendered in long uninterrupted bold black strokes that draw our gaze like a magnet. Mercedes Matter was a female ar...
Category
Cubist 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
1937 Academic Female Nude Charcoal Drawing "Head in Hand" UC Berkeley
By John Ayres
Located in Arp, TX
John Ayres
Head in Hand
May 1, 1937
Charcoal on Paper
25"x19", unframed $1250
Signed and dated in charcoal top right
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...
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Realist 1930s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, India Ink
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