Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
MY SLEEPING BEAUTY
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pastel on paper. Hand signed on front; signed, titled and dated on verso. Visible image size: approx. 18.5 x 25.5 in. Frame size: 29 x 36 in. Artwork is in excellent conditi...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Blue Moons
Located in Morton Grove, IL
ink and pigment on paper
signed by artist
*Part of the Hotel Drawing Series
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pigment, Watercolor
Untitled
By David Salle
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a figurative and pictorial watercolor on paper made by American post-modern artist David Salle in 1984. The work is signed in pencil, lower right, "David Salle". The ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
White Hairbrush II
Located in London, GB
Graphite pencil on paper, 18.5cm x 19cm, (framed 50cm x 42cm). (Provenance: from the artist.)
Leonard is probably best known for his portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth, in the National ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
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 nude man crouching. Be...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
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. Vibrant sketch of sitting nude woman with washes of blue, g...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
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 nude ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Afternoon Light
Located in Columbus, OH
"Afternoon Light" is an original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ron...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
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. Enigmatic doubl...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
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 woman with black hair with orange, green a...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
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 woman with jewe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
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. 18x24 inch...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
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
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. Stunning sketch of a nude with washes of aqua and pink. This is a part of Shap's '80s Interiors...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Lonely Erection
By Nate Lowman
Located in New York, NY
Nate Lowman
Lonely Erection, 2010
Ink on vellum
14 x 10 7/10 inches (sheet)
16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (frame)
Signed and dated recto
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Vellum
DRAWING OF SAM II
By Amanda Watt
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pencil, chalk and crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pencil
DRAWING OF SAM I
By Amanda Watt
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pencil, chalk and crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pencil
DRAWING OF SAM III
By Amanda Watt
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pencil, chalk and crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pencil
20th century female artist self-portrait drawing pastel small color signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Following in line with artists before her, like Rembrandt and van Gogh, Sandra Sweeny here presents a self portrait. The image is direct but subtle in its handling of materials, but ...
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1970s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
THE RELEASE
Located in Tulsa, OK
Loretta Hirsch, THE RELEASE, ink marker pencil, liquid ink, gold leaf, on German Card stock Paper, 11.70 X 8.30 in, $740.00
Born in Oklahoma and educated ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
TAKING CHARGE
Located in Tulsa, OK
Loretta Hirsch, TAKING CHARGE, ink marker pencil, liquid ink, on German Card stock Paper, 11.70 X 8.30 in, $740.00
Born in Oklahoma and educated at the Atlanta College of Art, Loret...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Eklo Haude Bernabé 21st Century drawing Africa pastel colour flora art
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower left by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Profile
Located in Columbus, OH
Original ink and watercolor figure painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a nude woman reclining with washes of orange, peach ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of Jon Anderson
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Paul Cadmus
Portrait of Jon Anderson
Signed and inscribed “NM269A” in pencil, u.l.
Crayon on paper
25.25 x 19 inches
Price upon request.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Untitled
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
John Button
Untitled
1968
Signed and dated in pencil, l.r.
Pencil on paper
16.5 x 12.25 inches
Category
1960s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Water No. 1, after Tom, Self Portrait by Zachari Logan, Blue Pencil on Mylar
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing and self portrait by Zachari Logan in blue colored pencil on Mylar of the artist nude and submerged in a body of water.
This is a drawing made with blue colored pencil on Mylar of a nude man with long dark hair in water up to his thighs surrounded by branches.
Water No. 2, After Tom
2022
Accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Colored pencil on Mylar
7.5 x 5.25 inches
“This drawing is a tribute to Tom of Finland, whose work has long-influenced my own in relation to drawing, the construction of space, and self-portraiture. In Finland’s compositions, images of men in the landscape—logging, foresting, and relaxing (together, naked, clothed, alone, in pairs and in groups) had a profound effect on my own thinking about the queer body represented. I see no separation between land and body—we are nature. The queer body is not unnatural (that is a false dichotomy, often espoused by religious and conservative world views). Finland’s renderings of bodies in nature are for me a rupture of the largely European tradition of only representing male nudity...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
"Nude Lady" Nude Pencil on Paper 20" x 12" inch (1954) by Salah Abdel Kerim
Located in Culver City, CA
"Nude Lady" Nude Pencil on Paper 20" x 12" inch (1954) by Salah Abdel Kerim
Born in Fayoum to a big family of 5 brothers and sisters. In 1938 he meets the famous painter Hussein Bikar and he becomes his student in the Faculty of Arts in Qena. He remained much attached to his professor all through his life. In 1940 he meets Hussein Youssef Amin and the Group of Contemporary Art at the secondary school of Farouk First in Abasya district in Cairo when he was introduced to surrealism for the first time. In 1943 he becomes a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts and graduates with excellence and honors in 1947. In 1948 he becomes an assistant to the interior decoration section at the FFA. He is then sent to a mission in Paris in 1952 and he becomes a student to Paul Colin and A.Marie Cassandre for publicity and theatre design. He then moves to Rome in 1956 to study cinema design. In 1957 he received the international prize in painting from San Vito Romano, Italy, and obtains his Ph.D. from Centro Sperimental di Cinemato Grafia. Back in Egypt in 1958, he is appointed professor at the FFA where he started experimenting with his masterpieces sculptures in wrote iron...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Jon Writing
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Jon Writing
Signed
Color crayon on paper
19 x 25 inches (48.3 x 63.5 cm)
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Daphné
Located in New York, NY
Daphné
2012
Graphite on paper
42.5 x 44 inches
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Torso No. 2, Cranach (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Torso No. 2, Cranach (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
2017
Blue pencil on Mylar
12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm)
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by CLAMP in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Dino
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
1998
Signed and dated, l.r.
Conté crayon on paper
22.5 x 15 inches, image
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Leaning Female Nude
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Leaning Female Nude
Crayon on paper
12.5 x 9 inches (31.8×22.9 cm)
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1960s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Many Figure Studies and Studies for Compositions with Groups
Located in New York, NY
Many Figure Studies and Studies for Compositions with Groups
Black ink on paper
14 x 9.75 inches (35.6 x 24.8 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Athletic Nude Model in Repose
Located in New York, NY
Athletic Nude Model in Repose
1962
Initialed and dated, l.r.
Black ink on British Scraper Board
12 x 19.5 inches (30.5 x 49.5 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Nude Model Wearing a Cross Necklace
Located in New York, NY
Nude Model Wearing a Cross Necklace
Black ink on paper
20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Flexing Male Nude
Located in New York, NY
Flexing Male Nude
Black ink on paper
20 x 14 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
On One Knee
Located in New York, NY
On One Knee
Ink on paper
18.5 x 12.5 inches (47 x 31.8 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Athletic Pose
Located in New York, NY
Athletic Pose
Charcoal and Conté crayon on paper
17.5 x 12 inches (44.5 x 30.5 cm)
This work is offered by Clamp Art in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Backside
Located in New York, NY
Backside
Pink ink on paper
13 x 8 inches (33 x 20.3 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Many Studies of One Model
Located in New York, NY
Many Studies of One Model
Graphite and black ink on paper
14 x 9.75 inches (35.6 x 24.8 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
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