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Art Subject: Men
Mid Century French Portrait Drawing of a Seated Man in Thought
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Drawing of a Seated Man in Thought
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Dated 1946
Size: 12 (hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Jean Martin, Man with scarf, circa 1950, Graphite on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean MARTIN (1911-1996)
Man with scarf, circa 1950
Graphite on paper
Monogrammed “JM” lower right
16,5 × 14 cm
A self-taught painter born in Lyon in 1911, Jean Martin developed a st...
Category
1950s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
Antique French Classical Study of the Male Back Nude Drawing 19th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Study of the Male Back
French School, early/ mid 19th century
charcoal on artist paper stuck on board, glass covering framed
framed: 13 x 9 inches
board : 12 x 8 inches
Provenance: p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Juventus 1995-96 - The Embrace of Victory. UEFA. 1996
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus 1995-96 - The Embrace of Victory
Artist: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017)
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 101 x 72 cm
Signed: Lower right, "Si...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Expressionist Cafe Scene, Bagnoles, Au Casino, Circle of Fikret Saygi Moualla
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century French Expressionist gouache and watercolour on paper of a café scene. The painting is signed bottom right but as yet undeciphered. The work is titled to the back of the framing 'Bagnoles. Au Casino' and numbered. Presented in plain wood frame under glass, probably the artist's original framing.
A lively and colourful scene of waiters serving their patrons in the bar of a casino. The servers are dressed in crisp linen jackets, black trousers, bow ties whilst balancing their trays of drinks. The customers are dressed in all their colourful finery for an evening at the tables. The artist has captured the feeling of the scene, noise, bustle, conversations and excitement. Bold splashes of colour animate the scene and create an almost Fauvist perspective. The painting in style, execution and subject matter is very much like the work of Fikret Muallâ who was painting at this period.
Fikret Muallâ Saygı ) was a 20th-century avant-garde painter of Turkish descent. His work reflects influences from Expressionism and Fauvism, with subject matter focusing on Paris street life, social gatherings such as cafés and circuses. Though born in Istanbul he spent much of his career painting in Paris...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh with Bandaged Ear and Pipe.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Gouache and watercolour on corrugated cardboard after the famous self portrait by Vincent van Gogh with his fur hat, bandaged ear and pipe. This painting is by Jean Ducel who has pla...
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
Pre-Second Republic Academic Study Of A Male Nude Framed 1840s French Drawing
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Henry Arthur Roberts.
French ( b.1819 - d.1900 ).
Academic Life Study Of A Standing Male Nude.
Pencil & Charcoal On Paper.
Paper size 23.8 inches x 13.6 inches ( 60.5cm x 34.5cm ).
Frame size 28.3 inches x 18.7 inches ( 72cm x 47.5cm ).
Available for sale; this academic life drawing of a male nude is by the French artist Henry Arthur Roberts and dates from the early 1840s.
The drawing is presented and supplied in a modest hand painted glazed wooden frame dating from the mid-20th century (which is shown in these photographs).
This antique drawing is in good condition, commensurate with its age. It is in an untouched condition having never been restored. The paper has handling marks, some light surface dirt, the odd foxing mark and general age toning. The overall patina adds to the aesthetic and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The drawing is not signed but came from a portfolio of drawings by Henry Arthur Roberts.
Henry Arthur Roberts was a recognised French artist, notable for his portraits and paintings of religious subjects. Born in Paris in 1819, he was the son of British watercolour artist James Roberts, himself active in Paris from 1819 -1846. Henry became a student of his father.
Henry Roberts’s talent as a young man was such that he was accepted as a student of Michel Martin Drölling and worked extensively with him. Drölling, the highly acclaimed neoclassic artist (1786-1851) was noted for his theatrical paintings of history and grand portraits. He produced many notable works, including a ceiling work for the Louvre, and works in the Palace of Versailles. Roberts would have studied with Drölling at an early stage in his career, as Drölling died when Roberts was 32. Learning with such a master would have had a huge impact on Roberts in terms of his academic skills and his own emerging style.
Roberts exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1839, when he was only 20 years old, right through to 1867. His work in the Universal Exhibition of 1855 won him a Third Class Medal. He became Vice-President of the Association of Artists in Paris and in July 1898 he was elevated to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honour with a foreign title. This was the highest state honour available to him, in recognition of his status as an artist.
Henry Roberts died in 1900, but his legacy lives on, with works in many famous public collections, including the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orsay, and in Boston, USA.
© Big Sky Fine Art
This exceptional academic nude...
Category
1840s Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
MB 018 (Figurative Life Drawing of Handsome Male Nude by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic life drawing of male nude with charcoal and graphite by Mark Beard, "MB 018"
graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 19 inches unframed
Signed, lower right
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Family Farm in France
Located in London, GB
'Family Farm in France', gouache on art paper, by Michel Debiève (circa 1970s). An extremely endearing depiction of a French family farm, the delight is...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
MB 702 (Contemporary Life Drawing of Male Nude by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
MB 702 (Contemporary Life Drawing of Male Nude by Mark Beard)
graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 19 inches unframed
Con...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Crowd in Barcelona spanish modernism watercolor drawing Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Crowd in Barcelona - Watercolor drawing
Drawing measurements 19x24 cm.
Frame measurements 30x35 cm.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas, Manuel Hugué, Isidre Nonell...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Figure Drawing by Mark Beard (Stoic, Muscular Male Nude Charcoal Life Drawing)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic life drawing of male nude with charcoal and graphite by Mark Beard
graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 19.5 inches unframed
Signed, lower left
Strong f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Adonis, pastel drawing on oversize black paper, muscular male nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently discovered 1983-84 oversize pastels on archival papers were created working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the last existing obs...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Early Roy Lichtenstein drawing (Roy Lichtenstein, St. Macarius Monastery) c.1951
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Roy Lichtenstein, ‘St. Macarius Before His Monastery,’ circa 1951:
Included in the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné - this unique, rare early draw...
Category
1950s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Biedermeier Period Academic Life Study Male Nude Carrying A Staff Circa 1826
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Eduard Braun.
German ( b.1798 - d.1876 ).
Academic Life Study Of A Male Nude Carrying A Staff.
Pencil & Charcoal On Paper With Heightening.
Annotation (presumably a dedication) Lower Left.
Paper size 24 inches x 16.5 inches ( 61cm x 42cm ).
Frame size 30.1 inches x 22.2 inches ( 76.5cm x 56.5cm ).
Available for sale; this academic life drawing of a male nude is by the German artist Eduard Braun and dates from around 1826.
The drawing is presented and supplied in an interesting configuration with a modern twist (which is shown in these photographs). The drawing has been float mounted between two sheets of Tru Vue Museum Glass® UV99 so that the wall or setting behind the hanging is visible and therefore provides the surround for the artwork.
This antique drawing is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The drawing is not signed but came from a portfolio of drawings by Eduard Braun. This drawing has a later annotation and presumably a dedication in red ink in the bottom left hand corner. The annotation is the monogram HL within a heart. The configuration of the HL resembles the format used by the French artist Henri Laurens 1885 – 1954 where the downstroke of the L is merged with the second downstroke of the H.
This stunning original pencil and charcoal drawing on paper is by a German artist called Eduard Braun. He was born in 1798 and died in 1876, but little else is known about him apart from the fact that he was active in the Paris art salons and rooms.
This drawing is from a portfolio by this artist on a similar theme and is typical of the type of academic study undertaken by serious art students throughout the nineteenth century. One of the other drawings in this portfolio is annotated as being created in 1826 and there is every reason to think that this drawing is contemporaneous with that.
The drawing is of a very high standard, capturing both strength and sensitivity, showcasing the artist’s ability to reproduce a lifelike image of a nude model.
The subject of this drawing is a young man, possibly in his mid-twenties, with a toned and muscular body. He is standing with his weight on his right leg, which is slightly bent, and holding a wooden staff in his right hand. His left foot is raised slightly with the toes pointed, and his left hand is placed behind his back. Although he is facing fully towards the viewer, his gaze is to his left. He has pleasant, serene expression on his face. The background is bare, save for the shadow cast by the model.
This original antique drawing...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Choice I (Monochrome-Strong influence of Church's Baroque / Renaissance art )
By Radek Husak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Radek Husak, a contemporary process-driven mixed media artist, was born in Poland in
1984. With a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, his practice is firmly situated in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pigment
Duchándome en Cuerpo Ajeno May 30th. Watercolor and ink on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchándome en cuerpo Ajeno May 30th, by Celso Castro-Daza
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor and ink on paper
Image size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
MB 076 A&B (Double Sided Figurative Charcoal Drawing of Male Nudes)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing of male nudes made with graphite, charcoal, and conte crayon on Arches paper
30 x 22 inches, unframed
One piece of 30 x 22 inch Arches. Two drawings, one on either...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Male - Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided (drawing on both sides)
10.5x 8.25 inches
provenan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
MB 053 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing of a Muscular Male Nude on Arches Paper)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative male nude drawing made of graphite, charcoal, and conte crayon on Arches paper
30 x 20 inches, unframed
This unique life study drawing of a standing male nude was made...
Category
2010s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Graphite
French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Si...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Indian Motorcycle, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A rider halts on a dirt track, possibly appreciating the scenery around him. Fueled by his passion for motorcycle racing in his twenties, artist Thomas Hoerbe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor
MB 806 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing on Paper of Two Muscular Male Nudes)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative nude drawing made with graphite, conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 19 inches unframed
This unique life study drawing of two male nude models was made by Mark...
Category
2010s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Tomorrow Afternoon - Drawing by Erté - 1951
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Tomorrow afternoon is a contemporary artwork realized in 1951 by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Titled and numbered "1...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
MB 807 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing on Arches Paper of Two Male Nude Models)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing of two male nudes made with graphite, conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 18.5 inches, unframed
This unique life study drawing of two standing male n...
Category
2010s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Drölling Student Academic Life Study Of A Male Nude Framed 1840s French Drawing
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Henry Arthur Roberts.
French ( b.1819 - d.1900 ).
Academic Life Study Of A Male Nude Carrying A Staff.
Pencil & Charcoal On Paper.
Paper size 23.4 inches x 13.6 inches ( 59.5cm x 34.5cm ).
Frame size 28.3 inches x 18.7 inches ( 72cm x 47.5cm ).
Available for sale; this academic life drawing of a male nude is by the French artist Henry Arthur Roberts and dates from the early 1840s.
The drawing is presented and supplied in a modest hand painted glazed wooden frame dating from the mid-20th century (which is shown in these photographs).
This antique drawing is in good condition, commensurate with its age. It is in an untouched condition having never been restored. The paper has handling marks, some light surface dirt, the odd foxing mark and general age toning. The overall patina adds to the aesthetic and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The drawing is not signed but came from a portfolio of drawings by Henry Arthur Roberts.
Henry Arthur Roberts was a recognised French artist, notable for his portraits and paintings of religious subjects. Born in Paris in 1819, he was the son of British watercolour artist James Roberts, himself active in Paris from 1819 -1846. Henry became a student of his father.
Henry Roberts’s talent as a young man was such that he was accepted as a student of Michel Martin Drölling and worked extensively with him. Drölling, the highly acclaimed neoclassic artist (1786-1851) was noted for his theatrical paintings of history and grand portraits. He produced many notable works, including a ceiling work for the Louvre, and works in the Palace of Versailles. Roberts would have studied with Drölling at an early stage in his career, as Drölling died when Roberts was 32. Learning with such a master would have had a huge impact on Roberts in terms of his academic skills and his own emerging style.
Roberts exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1839, when he was only 20 years old, right through to 1867. His work in the Universal Exhibition of 1855 won him a Third Class Medal. He became Vice-President of the Association of Artists in Paris and in July 1898 he was elevated to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honour with a foreign title. This was the highest state honour available to him, in recognition of his status as an artist.
Henry Roberts died in 1900, but his legacy lives on, with works in many famous public collections, including the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orsay, and in Boston, USA.
© Big Sky Fine Art
This striking academic nude study...
Category
1840s Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Salvador Dalì (1904-1989) - Leda and the Swan -heliogravure and drypoint etching
Located in Varese, IT
mixed media incorporating heliogravure and drypoint etching hand-colored on Arches paper , Edited in 1964
limited edition, numbered in lower left corner 84/150
signed in pencil by a...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
A Clever Watercolor and Ink on Paper Drawing Titled "The Sea" by Richard Taylor
Located in Chicago, IL
An eye-catching watercolor and ink on paper drawing titled "The Sea" by artist Richard Taylor. Image size: 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Framed size: 15 1/4" x 17 1/4. Provenance: Wakefield ...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Humorous Gentleman's Magazine cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cartoon sketch, ca. 1955. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Unsigned with editor's notations.
From a group of sketches meant to be preliminary drafts for editor appro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled 28 (Polaroid Transfer Drawing of a Reclining Male Nude by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Polaroid transfer drawing of a reclining male nude on Rive BFK paper by Mark Beard
9.5 x 7 inch image size
22 x 15 inch paper size
Ed. 5/6, Polaroid Transfer on Rives BFK paper, unfr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Polaroid
French Impressionist Watercolor of Figures Relaxing on Ocean Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of Figures Relaxing on Ocean Beach
By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021)
Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed
Size: 5.5 x 7.5 inches (Height ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Matador
By Julian Levi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Born in New York, Julian Levi spent his early years in Philadelphia. He began his art studies art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Arthur B. Carles, Daniel Garber, and Henry McCarter. On graduation, Levi was awarded a scholarship which he used to travel to Italy and Paris. During his stay in Europe, which lasted five years, from 1920 to 1925, Levi was influenced by Cubism. He was especially drawn to the art of Juan Gris, adopting the gentle color harmonies and precise linear treatments of forms found in Gris's works. In 1924, Levi participated in an important show of Philadelphia modern artists which included works by Charles Demuth, Hugh Breckinridge, Franklin Watkins...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
MB 809 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing on Paper of Two Seated Male Nude Models)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing made with graphite, conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
21.5 x 28 inches, unframed
This unique life study drawing of two seated male nude models was made ...
Category
2010s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Gouache Fashion Sketch - Paris Street Fashion
Located in Houston, TX
French gouache fashion sketch of a casual day outfit, circa 1980.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve and Certificate of ...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Ultramarine Male Nude - Contemporary Abstract Ecolina Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Shah Jahan taking tea with a concubine. Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in black ink, 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (340 x 222 mm). Toning, handling creases and minor sca...
Category
19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Humorous Gentleman's Magazine cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cartoon sketch, ca. 1955. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Unsigned with editor's notations.
From a group of sketches meant to be preliminary drafts for editor appro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
English Antique Portrait Sketch of Female Nude Seated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Seated
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on yellowed thin artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 15 x 18 inches
provenance: f...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ornette by African American Artist Bai, Colorful Work on Paper
Located in New york, NY
A muted color acrylic and oil pastel of an androgenous subject with Modigliani eyes, Ornette by African American artist Bai is an enigmatic portrait made on 15” x 11” etching paper. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Hopeless - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930 ca
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Hopeless is a Colored lithograph realized on japan paper by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca. French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Standing Male Nude 1)
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
MODERN EVE - nude by Paula Craioveanu - original art ultramarine blue
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Part of my Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper.
Shipped rolled in a tube. Shipping anywhere in the world. Registered airmail.
This piece, Modern Eve, is a striking and expressive work that beautifully captures the essence of Matisse’s influence while maintaining its own contemporary voice. The use of ultramarine tempera on paper creates a dynamic interplay between form and negative space, with the vivid blue standing out against the warm, neutral background.
The loose, fluid brushstrokes give the figure an organic, almost spontaneous energy, reminiscent of Matisse’s Blue Nudes series. The dripping paint and gestural lines evoke a sense of movement, reinforcing the sensuality of the pose.
The arching posture of the figure conveys ecstasy or release, with an elongated, exaggerated form that enhances emotional intensity. The simplification of anatomy aligns with Fauvist principles—prioritizing emotional impact over precise realism.
The choice of ultramarine is bold and effective. It has historical significance in art, often associated with spirituality and depth (as seen in Yves Klein’s monochromes), yet here it is used in a raw, expressive manner that makes the figure feel both powerful and ethereal.
The use of tempera adds a unique opacity and depth to the strokes. It gives the painting a sense of immediacy, as if the artist captured the moment in a burst of inspiration. The visible brushwork and drips make the process part of the final aesthetic, reinforcing a connection between artist and viewer.
The clear homage to Henri Matisse’s Blue Nude series is well-executed but doesn’t feel derivative—it builds upon his legacy while pushing it forward. The sensual yet modern representation of the female body echoes the freedom of early 20th-century modernists but with a contemporary edge. The piece also recalls the expressive, raw energy of Egon Schiele’s linework, albeit with a more fluid and painterly approach.
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Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it.
I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting.
My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration.
My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in color and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings."
Paula Craioveanu
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera
(ORANGE ABSTRACT FACE)
By Henry Miller
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Sheet 23 3/4 x 118 7/8
HENRY MILLER (1891 – 1980)
((ORANGE ABSTRACT FACE) 1967
Watercolor, signed in ink and dated 47/ 1967. Image 19 1/4 x 13, Sheet 23 3/4 x 18 7/8. Likely done...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Un Rassemblement - Figurative Drawing
By Milo Quam
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully provocative sketch drawing of a gathering of men and women in pencil by outsider artist Mylo Quam (American, 1941-1996). Signed lower right. Presented in giltwood frame with black mat under glass. Image size: 8.25"H x 10.50"W.
A long-time Woodstock area resident, Mylo Quam was a self-taught painter and draughtsman whose provocative figural work has been compared to Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli and Hieronymous Bosch, as well as to twentieth-century artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Quam was an avid reader who derived inspiration from such varied arenas as Shakespeare, the occult, the Bible, Eastern and Western mythology, politics, and popular culture. "I look at everything," the artist was quoted as saying in 1990. "I read the comic pages. Anything visual. There's very little I don't think is a subject for art."
Born in North Dakota, Quam studied Greek language and other classical subjects at Brandeis, Boston, and New York Universities, and worked as a translator of Greek plays while just 17 years old. After a successful career as an actor that included numerous Off-Broadway performances and a leading role in the 1968 Broadway production of Royal Hunt of the Sun, Quam turned his focus to painting.
His first one-man exhibition was at the Boatman Gallery, NYC in 1969 and was followed by twenty solo shows over the course of his career at venues including Gallery A, Flynn Gallery, CFM Gallery, Brewster Gallery, Imperial Gallery, Runyon Winchell Gallery and the Gallery of Erotic Art, all in New York City.
Quam's work was also exhibited at the John Pense Gallery in San Francisco, the Clark-Whitney Gallery in Massachusetts, the Barrett House and Desmond Weiss Galleries in Poughkeepsie, and for many years at the Ann Leonard Gallery in Woodstock.
Quam's paintings were exhibited internationally, as well, notably in a solo exhibition in Haiti-- the first by an American artist in that country. In addition, he was one of four artists to represent the United States in La Bienalle di Venezia, Italia of 1986. As a young man, Quam designed sets and/or costumes for the Actor's Playhouse in New York City, the Lucas Hovig Ballet Company, and the Opera Municipal de Marseilles, France. He also created illustrations for The Story of O...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mark Beard 054 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing of Two Male Nudes on Arches Paper)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing of two male nudes made with graphite, charcoal, and conte crayon on Arches paper
30 x 14 inches, unframed
This unique life study drawing of two standing nude m...
Category
2010s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Paper
“Montmartre”
By Fernand Guignier
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed original watercolor by French artist Fernand Guignier of a street scene in Montmartre, Paris. Signed lower right and dated 1949. Titled lower left, “Montmartre”. Fernand Guignier was a student of the sculptors Emil Derré and Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris . Between 1926 and 1960 he took part in the Salon des Artistes Français in the Palais de Tokyo. The watercolor is housed in its original off white wood frame. Under glass. Condition is very good. Overall framed measurements are 18.25 by 16.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Fernand Guignier
Born: 1902
Died: 1972
Known for: Paris street scene watercolor...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mid 19th Century English silhouette portrait of a lady in a night cap
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very skillfully painted ink on paper silhouette, unusually with the sitter appearing to be dress in her nightcap. Very Dickensian!
English School, 19th Century
Portrait of a lady ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Historic Miniature Watercolor of Lewins Mead in Bristol
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Lewins Mead in Bristol
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unf...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Man - Drawing by Valentine Hugo - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Young Man is a Pencil Drawing realized by Valentine Hugo (1890-1968).
Good condition on a yellowed paper included a white cardboard passp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Satyrical Portrait of Benito Mussolini - Pencil and Pastel on Paper - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mussolini is an original drawing realized by the satirical cartoonist Alberto Fremura in 1975.
Drawing in pencil and pastel. The artwork rapresents a caricature of the italian dictator Benito Mussolini...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Antique French Study Sheet of Eye and Nose Sketches
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Antique French Study Sheet
signed pencil sketch on artist paper
painting: 20.75 x 15 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: good and sound condition with some damages to age.( Shown in photos.)
Description: This fascinating antique sketch...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Reflecting Man - Pencil by Mino Maccari - 1970s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Uomo che riflette (Reflecting man) is an original pencil drawing on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989)...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Early 19th Century English Victorian silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A finely detailed silhouette of a Victorian young man.
Circle of Hinton Gibbs (1783-1839)
Portrait of a young man, bust length, turned to the right, wearing coat and cravat
watercol...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
Little witches 1
Located in Genève, GE
Erotic scene
Wooden frame with glass pane
49.5 x 41.5 x 1.3 cm
Category
1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude - Original Mixed Media Paper by Jeanne Dour - 1939
By Jeanne Daour
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original artwork in pen, pencil, and watercolor on paper, realized in 1939 by Jeanne Daour.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner in pencil by the artist and dated.
Goo...
Category
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Pen
Duchándose, May 27th. Watercolor and ink on archival paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor and ink on archival paper
Image size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Early 19th Century, Portrait of a young man wearing glasses, gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Early 19th Century,
Portrait of a young man wearing glasses,
gouache on paper
13 x 10.5 cm oval view
In a vintage frame : 41.5 x 39 cm, accidents and lacks in the gilding but but...
Category
1820s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
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