Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
CUBIST STYLE
Inspired by the nontraditional ways Postimpressionists like Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat depicted the world, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered an even more abstract style in which reality was fragmented into flat, geometric forms. Cubism majorly influenced 20th-century Western art as it radically broke with the adherence to composition and linear perspectives that dated back to the Renaissance. Its watershed moments are considered Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, in which nude figures are fractured into angular shapes, and Georges Braque’s 1908 painting show, which prompted a critic to describe his visual reductions as “cubes.”
Although Cubism was a revolutionary art movement for European culture, it was informed by African masks and other tribal art. Its artists, which included Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris and Jean Metzinger, experimented with compressing space and playing with the tension between solid and void forms in their work. While their subjects were often conventional, such as still lifes, nudes and landscapes, they were distorted without any illusion of realism.
Cubist art evolved through different distinct phases. In Analytic Cubism, from 1908 to 1912, figures or objects were “analyzed” into pieces that were reassembled in paintings and sculptures, as if presenting the same subject matter from many perspectives at once. The palette was usually monochromatic and muted, giving attention to the overlapping planes. Synthetic Cubism, dating from 1912 to 1914, moved to brighter colors and a further flattening of images. This unmooring from formal ideas of art would shape numerous styles that followed, from Dada to Surrealism.
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Style: Cubist
Cubist Nude Study Pastel Painting by John Begg
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely pastel painting on paper by John Alfred Begg (1903 - 1974) is a striking cubist nude study in blue, purple, and orange-rust colors with contrasting black lines. The artwork is signed in the bottom right corner.
Provenance: From the estate of the artist.
Newly reframed in an elegant deep-textured wood frame with orange, black, and gilded colors, original beige jute matte, and glass protection.
Measurements:
With frame: 17.13 in wide (43.5 cm) x 24.41 in high (62 cm).
Opening view: 6.50 in wide (16.5 cm) x 12.44 in (31.5 cm).
About:
John Alfred Begg was born in New Smyrna Beach...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
Cubist Nude 43
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
Lawrence Fine Art is pleased to present a suite of early, cubist-inspired nudes by first generation abst...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Cubist Nude 79
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
Lawrence Fine Art is pleased to present a suite of early, cubist-inspired nudes by first generation abst...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Brutalist Nude Study Pastel Painting by John Begg
Located in Atlanta, GA
John Alfred Begg (1903 - 1974) designed this brutalist pastel painting on paper. The striking cubist nude study design boasts green, orange, and rust colors with contrasting black lines. No signature is visible on the front, but the piece can be signed at the back, like many of the artist's works.
Provenance: From the estate of the artist.
Newly reframed in an elegant deep-textured wood frame with orange, black, and gilded colors, original beige jute matte, and glass protection.
Measurements:
With frame: 17.32 in wide (44 cm) x 23.03 in high (58.5 cm).
Opening view: 9.45 in wide (24 cm) x 13.19 in (33.5 cm).
Note: John Alfred Begg was born in New Smyrna Beach...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
Cubist Nude 112
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
Lawrence Fine Art is pleased to present a suite of early, cubist-inspired nudes by first generation abst...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Cubist Nude 80
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
Lawrence Fine Art is pleased to present a suite of early, cubist-inspired nudes by first generation abst...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Cubist Nude 62
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
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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1930s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
Portrait of a Woman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A smokey portrait of a nude woman in pastel and charcoal on paper. This piece is an example of the more representational side of Benjamin Benno's practice, showing in more realistic ...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Charcoal
Cubist Nude Pastel Study Painting by John Begg
Located in Atlanta, GA
Elegant pastel painting on paper by John Alfred Begg (1903 - 1974). This piece features a striking cubist nude study in blue-gray color with contrasting black lines. There is no visible signature.
Provenance: From the estate of the artist.
Newly reframed in an elegant blue-silver textured wood frame with black matte and acrylic glass protection.
Measurements:
With frame: 15 in. wide (38 cm) x 19.69 in. high (50 cm).
Opening view: 7.32 in. wide (18.5 cm) x 12 in. (30.5 cm).
(The last two pictures show the piece of art before framing).
Biography:
John Alfred Begg was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on June 23, 1903.
He studied art at Columbia University (BS), with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine. He was a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Typophiles, and the Yonkers Art Association (chairman from 1972-1973).
He worked as an art editor and book designer at the American Book Company, New York, 1932-1937, as Art Director at Oxford University Press, New York, 1939-1968, and as vice-president from 1960-1968, as an art director at Art In America 1957-1959 where he won the Readerscope Award in 1945 for a bronze work. He also taught art and lectured on basic design at New York University from 1950 to 1958.
He exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum 1935, 1937; at the Wakefield Gallery 1942, 1943, 1945; the Nierendorf Gallery 1945; at the Buchholz Gallery 1943, 1945; at the Whitney Museum of American Art 1945, 1950; at the Worcester Art Museum 1948; and at the Hudson River Museum...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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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...
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1930s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal, Paper
1929 "Nude with Cubist Sculpture" Charcoal Female Nude Drawing UCBerkeley Artist
Located in Arp, TX
John Bowers Collection
Nude With Cubist Sculpture
1929
Charcoal on Paper
18.75"x24.75", unframed
Dated in charcoal lower right
Came from a portfolio owned by artist John Bowers
John was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree by the University of California, at Berkeley.
His collection included pieces by fellow student artists and professors at UC Berkeley including Fred Reichman...
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Early 20th Century Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
Nude No. 22
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
Like many of his peers--including de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko and others--Loew painted in a figurative s...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Nude No. 20
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist; estate number en verso
Like many of his peers--including de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko and others--Loew painted in a figurative styl...
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1950s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Frank Dobson, Study of a nude, sanguine chalk
By Frank Dobson
Located in Harkstead, GB
Frank Dobson (1888-1963)
Study of a nude viewed from behind
Signed
Sanguine chalk on paper
10 x 13½ inches
21¼ x 24¼ inches with frame
A wonderful exam...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Nude Study
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
double-sided c.1950's drawing by Spanish artist, Federico Castellon (1914-1971). Ink on wove paper, sheet measures 10 x 13 inches; 21.5 x 24.5 inches in wood frame. Excellent condition with no restoration or damage. Signed with artist's chop in red ink seal that he used in Asia. From a recently discovered collection of over 60 important Castellon drawings and watercolors c.1939-1950.
Birth place:
Almeria, SpainDeath place: New York, NYAddresses: NYC (immigrated 1921; citizen, 1943)Profession: Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, etcher, illustrator, teacher
Exhibited:
Weyhe Gal., 1934, 1936-40; AIC, 1935-47 (prize, 1938); AFA traveling exh., 1937; WMAA, 1938-45; PAFA, 1938-39, 1940 (prize), 1941-42; Carnegie Inst., 1942; PAFA, 1943-53; Assoc. Am. Ar., 1946 (prize), 1952 (solo); Corcoran Gal, 1947; LOC, 1949 (prize); Paris, France, 1952; Bombay, India, 1952; Gallery 10, 1961; Dintenfass Gal., N.Y., 1963; Phila. Pr. Cl., 1964 (prize); Hudson Gld. A., 1964; Great Neck, L.I., 1964; SAGA, 1964 (prize). In 1953, under the auspices of State Dept. Specialist Div., of I.E.S., he exhibited in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, with lectures in each country.
Awards:
F., Spanish Republic, 1934-36; fellow, Guggenheim Fnd., 1941, 1950; Nat. Inst. A. & Let. Grant, 1950.
Member:
NA; SAGAWork: WMAA; PAFA; MoMA; PMA; MMA; BM; AIC; NYPL; LOC; Univ. KY; San Diego Mus. FA; Newark (NJ) Pub. Lib.; Princeton Univ. (Frank Jewett Mather Coll.).
Comments:
A Surrealist painter whose imagery of the 1930s was greatly influenced by Dali. His full name was Federico Cristencia de Castellón y Martinez. Teacher: Columbia Univ., 1946-61; Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, 1952-61. Illustrator: Shenandoah, 1941; I Went into the Country, 1941; Bulfinch's Mythology, 1948; The Story of Marco Polo, 1954; The Man Who Changed China, 1954; The Story of J. J. Audubon, 1955; The Little Prince, 1954; The Life of Robert L. Stevenson, 1954. Reproduction of paintings on The Sumerian Civilization" for Life series "The Epic of Man," 1956; 15 paintings on "The History of Medicine" for MD magazine, 1960-61; The Story of Madame Curie...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Untitled (Standing Woman)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Leopold Survage (1879-1968)
Untitled (Woman Standing)
Graphite on paper, 1933
Signed in pencil by the artist: Survage
Signed with the estate stamp lower right
Signed in pencil "LS" f...
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1930s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Nude seated woman, 1965 - gouache, 49x32 cm., framed
By Jean Hélion
Located in Nice, FR
Important work by Jean Hélion. Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midca...
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1960s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
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Cubist nude drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Cubist nude drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 20th Century, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Michael Loew, John Begg, Benjamin G. Benno, and Federico Castellon. Frequently made by artists working with Ink, and India Ink and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Cubist nude drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 5.63 inches across are also available. Prices for nude drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $403 and tops out at $16,000, while the average work sells for $2,500.