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Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Nude - Original Pencil Drawing by Jeanne Daour - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour in 1940, Hand-signed and dated on the lower left. The state of preservation is good and aged with some small ...
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1940s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Nude - Original Sanguine by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pastel on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed on the lower right. The state of preservation is good and aged. Sheet dimension:2...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Nude - Original Pencil Drawing by Jeanne Daour - Mid 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour . The state of preservation is good and aged. Sheet dimension:50 x 32.5 cm The artwork represents a seated ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Nude - Pen Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pen on paper, realized by Maxime Juan in Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed, with an inscription on the lower left. The state of preservation of the artwor...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

Mother & Child, Modern Gouache and Graphite on Paper by Sidney Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sidney Simon, American (1917 - 1997) - Mother & Child, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Gouache and Graphite on Paper, signed lower left, Size: 23.75 x 18.75 in. (60.33 x 47.63 cm)
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1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Graphite

Artist and Nude Model - VIII, Modern Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - VIII, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: This...
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1980s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Artist and Nude Model - XI, Modern Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - XI, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: ...
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1980s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Artist and Nude Model - XII, Modern Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - XII, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Sitti...
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1980s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Artist and Nude Model - X, Modern Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - X, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: This dr...
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1980s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Untitled-055 Pastel Figure by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt frequently used live models for his figural pastels, which he maintained an interest in throughout his long career. Untitled (1972) Pastel on paper 25" x 20" Signed a...
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1670s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Kneeling Nude - Original Pencil Drawing by Paul Garin - Mid 20th Centur
Located in Roma, IT
Kneeling Nude is a wonderful original pencil drawing on invory-colored paper, realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963) between the beginning and the middle of XX ce...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Standing Nude in Profile - Pencil Drawing Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude in Profile is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first years of the XX century. Pencil on paper. Passepartout included. Good conditions except fo...
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Early 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Self-Portrait in Two Mirrors with Nude ink drawing by Peter Collins ARCA
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, and our other Peter Collins works, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message...
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1990s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Simone, Pastel On Paper, Signed Jean-Albert Grand-Carteret
Located in Paris, FR
Portrait of a naked woman, Simone. Pastel signed on the left side J.A.GRAND-CARTERET. Circa 1930-1940. Jean Albert Grand-Cartenet is a painter of nudes and portraits who was the ...
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1940s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Eye catching Roger Hilton drawing of a Man and Woman, ink on paper, modern brit
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A very eye catching and fun abstract of two nude figures by the Modern British artist Roger Hilton. Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World War Britain. Often associated with the 'middle generation' of St Ives painters – Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon & Bryan Wynter...
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20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Beach Series, Ink on Paper, Black, White Color by Modern Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series - 10 x 14 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper, 2006 UNFRAMED ALL IN DELIVERED PRICE Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal ...
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1990s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Beach Series, Ink on Paper, Black, White Color by Modern Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series - 10 x 14 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper, 2006 UNFRAMED ALL IN DELIVERED PRICE Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal ...
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1990s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Beach Series, Ink on Paper, Black, White Color by Modern Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series - 10 x 14 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper, 2006 ( Framed and Delivered ) Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was sol...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

"Attitude"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Woman with Lantern, Drawings, Ink on paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Untitled - 23 x 20 inches Marker on Paper , 1998 Delivery of shipment in roll form. Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely re...
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1990s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Lady with the Lamp, Nude Drawing, Ink on canvas by Modern IndianArtist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Lady with the Lamp - 48 x 36 inches (unframed size) Ink on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from B...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Ink

Lady with Flowers, Nude Drawing, Ink on canvas by Indian Modern Mastern-In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Lady with Flowers - 39 X 30 inches (unframed size) Ink on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Be...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink

Man & Bird, Nude Drawing, Ink on paper, Black & White by Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Untitled - 10.5 x 14.5 inches (unframed size) Ink on paper Signed lower right in Bengali Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Legendary master artist Lt. P...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Nude Drawing, Ink on paper, Black & White by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar – Untitled – 14.5 x 11 inches (unframed size) Ink on paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prakash Karmakar fr...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Nude Drawing, Ink on paper, Black & White by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar – Untitled – 10.5 x 14.5 inches (unframed size) Ink on paper Signed lower right in Bengali Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Legendary maste...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Reclining Man, Nude, Ink on paper, Black & White by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar – Untitled – 10.5 x 14.5 inches (unframed size) Ink on paper Signed lower right in Bengali Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Legendary maste...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Reclining Women, Nude Drawing, Ink on paper by Master Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar – Untitled – 7 x 5 inches (unframed size) Ink drawings at the back of a card. (Framed & Delivered) Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Beng...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Man Kneeling on the floor, Nude, Pastel on paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury - Man Kneeling on the floor - 20 x 28 inches (unframed size) Dry Pastel on paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Kneeling Man takes a fresh look at tradition and Modernism , drawing freely upon ideas and values from native sources , solely guided by their need for self expression . This determined not only how they would paint but also what they would paint . A core subject in around which he would organise the perception of the worls within and without. The Kneeling Man is a perfect example of Chowdhury's mastery of lines and to make the curves depict the character of his figures. By careful distortion of the form he imparts the air of caricature in his figures, figures of men and women...
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Ink and gouache drawing of a nude woman from behind
Located in Brookville, NY
A nude viewed from behind, with black hair , inscribed on the lower right by the artist John Begg "Mature Nude" c.1953 Outlined in black ink and with som...
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1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Study for "Getting up" – 1955, a preparatory drawing by Balthus (1908 -2001)
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1955, as he was residing at the Château de Chassy in the Morvan for two years, Balthus created a large painting entitled "Getting up". Balthus was inspired for this painting by t...
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1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, 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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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Standing Female Nude watercolor by Philadelphia Artist Adolphe Borie
Located in Philadelphia, PA
ADOLPHE BORIE (American, 1877-1934) Standing Female Nude Wash & charcoal on gray laid paper, 12 x 9 inches Framed: 16 x 13 inches Estate stamp lower right Born in Philadelphia, Adol...
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Early 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Charcoal

Nude in Black ink Reclining, Black ink on ivory paper
Located in Brookville, NY
John Begg studied art at Columbia University, with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine.  He was a member of the  Ameri...
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1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

"Admired"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
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1940s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

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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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

"After the Bath"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
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1940s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Reclining Nude in black ink on buff paper
Located in Brookville, NY
John Begg studied art at Columbia University, with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine.  He was a member of the  Ameri...
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1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

"The Model"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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1910s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Decora, Modern Charcoal Drawing by Lisa Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lisa Martin - Decora, Year: 2004, Medium: Charcoal on Paper, signed lower right, signed and dated on verso, Size: 17 x 25.5 in. (43.18 x 64.77 cm)
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Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Essence of Line, Ink Nude Study, Early 20th Century Drawing, Signed and Dated
Located in London, GB
Ink on paper, signed and dated '34 lower left Image size: 9 3/4 x 15 inches (24.75 x 24.5 cm) Mounted and framed A unique drawing, this work is typical of Brodzky's early nudes with its economy in the use of the line and the seemingly relaxed, informal pose of the model. The spontaneous feel of many of Brodsky's drawings does in a way indicate that the works, such as the present drawing, are purely sketches and studies. In fact, Brodsky was known for making perhaps twenty or thirty drawings at a sitting and of those he preserved perhaps only a handful, only those that 'pass his rigorous censorship sum up qualities resulting from the perfect collaboration of hand and eye and sensibility' (Forty Drawings by Horace Brodsky, by James Laver, 1935, p.15). Laver continued to write that 'Brodsky preferred a pose that showed the body from an unexpected angle, daringly foreshortened or with the weight of the various parts freed from the monotony of the standing pose. He liked to see his models from above, the limbs relaxed, and.... he made many of his drawings from a step-ladder drawn up close to the platform on which the model is lying'. Horace Brodsky Horace Ascher Brodzky (30 January 1885 – 11 February 1969) was an Australian-born artist and writer most of whose work was created in London and New York. His work included paintings, drawings and linocuts, of which he was an early pioneer. An associate in his early career of many leading artists working in Britain of his period, including Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Mark Gertler, and members of the Vorticism movement, he ended his life relatively neglected. Brodzky was born in Kew, Melbourne in 1885 to the Australian journalist Maurice Brodzky (a Jewish immigrant to Australia from Poland), and his wife Flora, née Leon. In his youth he assisted his father in the production of the magazine Table Talk. Brodzky studied initially at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. In 1904 his father was bankrupted after exposing corruption, and Horace moved with his family to San Francisco. In 1908, Brodzky went to London where he studied during 1911 at the City and Guilds South London Technical Art School. He became an acquaintance and follower of Walter Sickert. Amongst his friends was Henri Gaudier-Brzeska who created in 1913 a portrait bust of Brodzky (now in the Tate Gallery, London), and whose biography he wrote in 1933. Brodzky is said to have been so engrossed in talk when he visited Gaudier-Brzeska's studio in the King's Road, that he missed the last bus to Herne Hill where he lived. Brodzky travelled to Italy with the poet John Gould Fletcher and this led to his first London exhibition, "Paintings and Sketches of Italian and Sicilian Scenes" (c. 1911), of which one painting was selected for the 1912 Venice Biennale. He was in fact the first Australian to be exhibited at the Biennale. In 1914 his work was exhibited along with that of other Jewish artists, including Mark Gertler and David Bomberg, in the Whitechapel Gallery. Brodzky became a member of The London Group. During this period he was a pioneer of the technique of linocut, in which medium he has been said to have "excelled". His early oils reveal the influence of both Gertler and Bomberg. Among his works of this period are portraits of Jacob Epstein and Jacob Kramer. In 1915 Brodzky moved to New York, with an introduction to the art patron John Quinn. There he worked as a poster artist and an arts journalist, and in 1917 helped Quinn organize a New York exhibition of Vorticist artists. In 1919 he married Bertha Greenfield; they were to have three sons. In 1920 Egmont Arens...
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1930s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

"Spiritual Self-Portrait" Watercolor, Ink, Portrait, Nude, Linear Grid, Colors
Located in Detroit, MI
"Spiritual Self-Portrait" is a portrait of the artist by the artist. She has presented herself nude gazing boldly and directly at the viewer not so much challenging, but inviting dia...
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Late 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Shower Study II, 20th Century, David Hockney, Drawing, Modern British
Located in London, GB
David Hockney Shower Study 2, 1963 signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Shower Study 2 DH. '63' (lower right) wax crayon and graphite on paper 12 3/8 x 9 7/8 in (31.4...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Wax Crayon, Graphite

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Find a wide variety of authentic Modern nude drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add nude drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, yellow, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mino Maccari, Gaston Coppens, Jeanne Daour, and Prakash Karmarkar. Frequently made by artists working with Pencil, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern nude drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 0.25 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 $55 and tops out at $648,500, while the average work sells for $393.

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