Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

An original signed pencil and watercolor on watercolor paper by American artist Chaim Gross (1904-1991) titled "Nudes", 1924. Hand signed and dated by Gross lower right. Provenance: private collection - Boca Raton, FL. Recently framed in an Art Deco moulding, fabric matting from Holland, and gold filet. Framed size: 22.63" x 18.63". Sheet size: 15.13" x 11.13". Image size: 14.38" x 10.13". Some light UV staining to sheet. In otherwise excellent condition with strong colors. Chaim Gross was one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. Along with other noted sculptors William Zorach and Jose de Creeft, Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, and a majority of his work was carved from wood. Born in Ukraine in 1904, Gross studied at the art academy in Budapest under painter Béla Uitz, followed by art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. He immigrated to the United States with two of his brothers in 1921 and continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design with Elie Nadelman and others, and the Art Students League with sculptor and direct carver Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School at the same time as Peter Blume, Adolph Gottlieb and Moses and Raphael Soyer. Thereafter, Gross began an illustrious career that included important public commissions via his work for the Works Progress Administration and solo and group shows at prestigious galleries and museums such as the Whitney and the Smithsonian. Gross was also recognized with a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle de 1937 in Paris and 1942 with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artists for Victory exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. Gross also had a long career as a professor of printmaking and sculpture at various institutions including the The New School for Social Research, Art Students League and New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with fellow artists Alexander Dobkin...

Frame size 70x55 cm. Ricard Canals Llambí (Barcelona, ​​1876-1931) was a Spanish painter, draftsman and printmaker. Along with his friends the painters ...

Figure is an original drawing on paper realized by Daniel Ginsbourg in 1921. Hand-signed on the lower left. Aged with cutaways on the margins and diffused stains. The artwork repr...

Raoul DUFY (1877-1953) Relaxation Black Ink Dimensions: 49 x 63.5 cm Signed lower right Raoul Dufy Mrs Fanny Guillon Lafaille has confirmed the authenticity of the artwork. Raoul...

VERA ROCKLINE "LOUNGING NUDE" DRAWING ON PAPER, SIGNED RUSSIAN-FRENCH, C.1930 16 X 12 INCHES VERA ROCKLINE 1896-1934 Vera Schlezinger Rockline was born in Moscow in 1896. She was a student of Alexandra Exter...