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Period: 20th Century
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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 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude, arms raised
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude
Matchstick and ink drawing heightened with conte crayon
c. 1925
Signed with the Estate Stamp "B"
Provenance: Joseph A. Erdelac (1914 -2005), Cleveland
Acqu...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Reclining Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal and colored chalks with white highlights on tan laid paper, c. 1948
Signed and monogrammed by the artist lower right
(see photo)
A masterpiece dr...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Untitled, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Signed in the lower right corner. Great condition.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image size: 12 in H x 9 in W
Unframed
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Enriq...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
Untitled II, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled II, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Signed in the lower right corner. Great condition.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image size: 12 in H x 9 in W
Unframed
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En...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Para Celso, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Para Celso, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Image size: 23 in H x 18 in W
Signed in the lower right corner. Great condition with flaws.
Provenance: Private collection.
Unfram...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
Untitled III, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled III, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Signed in the top right corner. Great condition.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image size: 12 in H x 9 in W
Unframed
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Enr...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled IV, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled IV, 1992 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on ight cardboard
Image size: 17 in H x 14 in W
Signed and dated in the top right corner. Great condition with flaws. Provenance: Private ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Graphite
Seated Female Nude (Devora)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Female Nude (Devora)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1970
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
A folio from the artist's sketchbook. Done while the artist was in Florida.
Conditio...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
American Realist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio, Figurative painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio 2016, by Celso Castro
Crayon Pastel on archival paper
Image size: 60 H in. x 38 in. W
Unframed
On The back of the painting:
Abstract, 1986
Pencil a...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Crayon, Archival Paper
Female Torso, Nude
By Asa Cheffetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Female Torso
Charcoal on paper, c. 1920
Stamped and initialed in pencil "Asa Cheffetz/A.D.C"
Estate signature by wife, A.D.C.
Exhibited: Museum of F...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Snow White
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Snow White
pen and ink with watercolor, 1999
Signed with the artist's initials and dated along the bottom edge (see photo)
Sheet size: 6 x 6 inches
Peregrine Honig (born 1976 in San Francisco, CA) is an American artist whose work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury and trends in consumerism. Honig appeared on season one of Bravo’s artist reality television show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, which aired from June 9–August 11, 2010, finishing in second place.
Career
Born in San Francisco and raised in The Castro and in Project Artaud, Honig moved to Kansas City, Missouri, at 17 to attend the Kansas City Art Institute. At age 22, Honig was the youngest living artist to have work acquired by the Whitney Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
Honig’s work is included in private and public collections, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, The Fogg Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Academic Nude Study
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Academic Nude Study by E. Rantz
Charcoal on laid paper signed in charcoal
Lalanne Watermark, c. 1880-1900
Image: 24 3/4 x 18 3/4"
Category
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Woman Pulling on a Slip
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman Pulling on a Slip
Conte on paper, c. 1910
Signed lower right: "E. Shinn" (see photo of legs, signature on right)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist (see label)
Graham Gallery, N...
Category
Ashcan School 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
Untitled, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, 1996 by Celso Castro
Pencil on archival paper
Image size: 39 H in. x 48 in. W
Sheet size: 43 H in. x 59 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s w...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Archival Paper
Recanato y compañero, viernes 3 de junio 2016, Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Recanato y compañero, viernes 3 de junio 2016, by Celso Castro
Crayon Pastel on archival paper
Image size: 59 H in. x 39.5 in. W
On the back of the painting:
Untitled, 1986
Crayon...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Pedro Pablo, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Pedro Pablo 1998, by Celso Castro
Black crayon on archival paper
Image size: 40 H in. x 48 in. W
Sheet size: 45 H in. x 59 in. W
Unframed
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U...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Crayon
Untitled, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, 1986 Diptych Reverse, by Celso Castro Daza
Crayon on archival paper
Image size: 39.5 H in. x 59 in. W
On the back of the painting:
Recanato y compañero, viernes 3 de juni...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Crayon, Archival Paper
Poncho viernes 27 de mayo, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Poncho viernes 27 de mayo 2016, by Celso Castro
Crayon Pastel on archival paper
Image size: 59 H in. x 39 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Crayon, Archival Paper
Yvonne debout by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude drawing of the artist's wife
Located in London, GB
THIS WORK IS SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne debout by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pencil on paper
30.5 x 26 cm (12 x 10 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower centre, P...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Desnudo con medias, sábado 4 de junio, Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Desnudo con medias, sábado 4 de junio, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza
Pastel and Crayon or archival paper
Image size: 59 H in. x 40 in. W
On the back of the painting:
Portrait figurati...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Crayon, Archival Paper
Untitled
By David Salle
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a watercolor on paper made by David Salle in 1984. The work is signed in pencil, lower right, "David Salle". The art size is 18 x 24 inches. The framed size is 23 3/4 x...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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...
Category
Romantic 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
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
American Realist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
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
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 - Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
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SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on pape...
Category
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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...
Category
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Divertimento I (Picasso)
By Conger A. Metcalf
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Divertimento I (Picasso)
Graphite, color wash and oil paint on coated glossy paper, c. 1940
Signed C. Metcalf lower left (see photo)
Inscribed Matisse, Picasso, C. Metcalf lower left by the artist (see photo)
Condition: Irregular sheet margins
Framed in a carved corner, gilt decorated frame with foliate corners. Very complimentary to the work!!! ( See photo)
Oil paint transfer on verso
Three small bits of masking tape along the upper margin from previous framing
Colors fresh, appears to be no fading
Photos available upon request
Sheet/Image size: 13 x 9 1/4 inches
Provenance: Private Collection, Ohio
Exhibited: Childs Gallery, Boston, 2013-2023 (see label)
Conger Metcalf (1914–1998) was an American painter.
"He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and died in Boston, Massachusetts. Metcalf began his art studies in 1932 at the Iowa Stone City Art Colony, headed by American Regionalist painter Grant Wood. Metcalf continued his studies at Coe College in Cedar Rapids with Stone City co-founder Marvin Cone...
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American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nu (Standing Female Nude)
Red chalk on wove paper, c. 1925
Signed lower right: C Despaiu (see photo)
Sheet size (folded format): 12 1/8 x 8 5/16 inches
Condition: Very good
Sheet fol...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Odette aux seins nus by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Mixed Media Print
Located in London, GB
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Odette aux seins nus by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Mixed media and gold on paper
31.5 x 42.3 cm (12 ...
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20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Three Nudes in a Garden
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Nudes in a Garden
Graphite, c. 1928-1933
Initialed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, Aaron Bohrod: Figure Sketches, Fige 9, page 32 (see photo)
A...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled (seated female nude)
By Henry Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Femake Nude
Graphite and chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Signed "Keller" and signed again with the artist's initials in a cypher
A finished life drawing most probably exhibited at...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Seated Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Nude
Match Stick ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: A. Biehle
Created at the Kakoon Arts Club, Cleveland. Influenced by friend and fellow artist...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Three Graces
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Graces
Pentel marker on paper, 1965
Signed and dated by the artist lower left (see photo)
Part of a series of 100 drawings, this number 97 (annotated lower right corner)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet/Image size: 20 x 15 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Martha A. French Trust
Ray H. French: The Evolution of an Artistic Innovator
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H. French was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on May 16, 1919. Terre Haute was a cultural wasteland before the opening of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in 1942. Thus, with a father as a coal miner and carpenter, art remained a luxury for Ray. Nevertheless, local art teachers Mabel Mikel Williams and Nola E. Williams helped to foster his creativity and unshakable drive to create things of beauty.
After high school, Ray attended the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, during which he developed surveillance photographs for the Army Air Force. After the war, Ray transferred to the University of Iowa on the G.I. Bill, where he received both his BFA and MFA degrees. The University of Iowa during the 1940s was a cultural mecca with many major art historians and artists. While in Iowa, Ray played an important role in this culture by becoming a founding member of the Iowa Print...
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American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Untitled Female Nude
By Steven Assael
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Female Nude)
Graphite and sgrafitto on yellow paper, 1987
Signed lower right
Note: Steven Assael is represented by Forum Gallery in New York. In 1977 he won the Charles Ro...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Nude on a Stool
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude on a Stool
Ink on paper, c. 1970-80
Signed in red ink lower right
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 232 A copy of this hardbound books accompanies purchase
Condition: Excell...
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American Realist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude in a Mirror
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude in a Mirror
Ink and wash on paper, n.d.
Signed in red ink lower right (see photo)
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 153, a monograph on the artist's drawings
Note: a cop...
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American Realist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude Reclining on a Mat
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Reclining on a Mat
Ink on paper, n.d.
Signed in red ink lower right
Same model used in Elliott & Wooden pages 198 and 199
Condition: Excellent
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Warren Shaull, Dodge City, KS (collector's stamp verso)
Aaron Bohrod (21 November 1907 – 3 April 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings.
Education
Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings.
Career
He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. He eventually earned Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Army War Art Unit...
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American Realist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Undressing by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
Located in London, GB
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Undressing by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
13.6 x 10.6 cm (5 ³/₈ x 4 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed w...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Nude drawing
Located in London, GB
Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Charcoal on paper
31.3 x 24.2 cm (12 ⅜ x 9 ½ inches)
Signed lower right, L.Rodo
This work of art is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed and dated by Lélia Pissarro.
Artist biography:
Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, born in Paris in 1878, was Camille Pissarro’s fourth son. Encouraged by his father, he began drawing from nature at an early age. He was familiarly known as “Rodo” and generally signed his works "Ludovic-Rodo", or early on in his career simply "Rodo".
The impact of Camille’s art and teaching on Rodo was considerable. His artistic production encompassed a wide range of media, including oil painting, tempera, watercolour, gouache, wood engraving, drawing and lithography. Rodo exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants over a forty-year period.
In 1894, at the age of sixteen, Rodo published his first wood engravings in the anarchist journal, Le Père Peinard. When Camille left France for the safety of Belgium during the anarchist upheavals of the same year, Rodo joined him there.
Rodo moved into his first studio in Montmartre with his brother Georges in 1898. Works of this early important period until just after the death of his father in 1903 were post-impressionist and clearly painted under the influence of his father.
By 1904 living in Paris, he found the nightlife and the habitués of the cafes, theatres, circuses and cabarets compelling subjects for his work and changed dramatically the style of his painting, affiliating himself to the Fauve artists. Rodo became close to artists such as Kees Van Dongen, Maurice de Vlaminck and Raoul Dufy. In 1905 he participated in the first Fauve exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1907 he visited Van Dongen in Rotterdam and the two artists continued to paint together, something they often did in Paris.
In 1914 he married, though he never had children. Later that year at the outbreak of the War Rodo moved to England. Over the next seven years he lived mainly in and around West London. He worked closely with his brother Lucien to establish in 1915 the Monarro Group, formed with the aim of exhibiting work by contemporary artists inspired by Impressionism. Many of the works produced by Rodo while he was in England were of London landmarks but, he was also interested in the urbanisation of West London. After 1921, when Rodo had already returned to France, he divided his time between Paris and Les Andelys in Normandy, living and working closely with his elder brother Georges Manzana.
Despite his rich artistic heritage and his achievements as an artist, Rodo is perhaps best remembered for his contribution to art history. For ten years he researched and compiled a catalogue of his father’s paintings...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
Located in London, GB
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Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Watercolour, coloured crayon and pencil
26.3 x 20.2 cm ( ...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
Traditional nude drawings by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude drawing
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Traditional nude drawings by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pencil on paper
34.1 x 26.5 cm (13 ³/₈ x 10 ³/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile-Pissarro-
This work ...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century 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 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Femme nue de dos allongee
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Femme nue de dos allongee
Charcoal and white chalk on laid paper
Signed in charcoal, lower right "Steinlen" (see photo)
Note: Similar reclining nude drawing illustrated Slatkin No. 12 (See window on right)
Similar drawing, same model, same media, Proute 1971, Catalog Dandre Bardon, no. 115
There also other similar finished drawings of nudes in similar poses and with the same couch, white blanket...
Category
French School 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Chalk
Personnages
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Personnages" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 67".
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alex...
Category
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Gouache
Jeune Femme de Dos au Zèbre by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
Located in London, GB
Jeune Femme de Dos au Zèbre by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal on paper
66 x 49 cm (26 x 19 ¼ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana
Executed circa 1915
This work is acc...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Trois personnages nus
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Trois personnages nus" is a black conté crayon drawing on buff papaer by Francis Picabia. The artwork is signed in crayon, lower left, "Francis Picabia". The framed work measures 27 1/2 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. The Comité Francis Picabia has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.
Francis Picabia was an important French painter who experimented with a wide range of styles throughout his career and whose writings about art were influential in the development of the Dada movement...
Category
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Paper, Crayon
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 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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)...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Arm
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on paper
13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.2 cm.)
Signed (at lower right): Kupka
EX COLL.: private collection, St. Louis; to Howard Baer, 1972; [Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Galleries,
New York...
Category
20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled Nude (Double sided ink drawing with colored chalk)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Female Nude (Double-sided drawing)
Recto: Reclining Nude
Verso: Seated Nude
Signed in pencil lower right, recto (see photo)
Pen and ink with colored chalk, c. 1925
Condition: Repaire...
Category
French School 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude Reading by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO -Figurative work on paper, School of Paris
Located in London, GB
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Nude Reading by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952)
Black and colour pencil on paper
3...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Pencil, Paper
Study of an Indian Model
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Indian Model
Unsigned
Pastel and chalk on blue paper, mounted to support
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (per Graham and Sons, agent f...
Category
Ashcan School 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Chalk
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