Evelyn de Morgan is identified as one of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood who is now regarded as an icon of female painting. De Morgan was educated at home and started drawing lessons when she was 15. On the morning of her 17th birthday, De Morgan recorded in her diary, "Art is eternal, but life is short…" "I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose." De Morgan went on to persuade her parents to let her go to art school. At first, they discouraged it, but in 1873 De Morgan was enrolled at the Slade School of Art which was a great achievement at the time. De Morgan was one of the first three female artists to be admitted and was therefore a trailblazer in quashing the myth that women were not physically able to become professional artists. De Morgan was also a pupil of her uncle John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, who was a great influence on her works. Beginning in 1875, De Morgan often visited him in Florence where he lived. This also enabled her to study the great artists of the Renaissance; De Morgan was particularly fond of the works of Botticelli, an influence that comes through very strongly in her major works. De Morgan was one of the first exhibitors at the Grosvenor Gallery, the avant-garde alternative to the Royal Academy. De Morgan was a fine draughtswoman and her drawings are often mistaken for those of her male contemporaries, Frederic Leighton and Burne-Jones. Though identified as a Pre-Raphaelite, there are elements of her work that ridicule the movement. De Morgan intentionally depicted Jane Morris, Rossetti’s muse, as an old lady pondering the passing of time in the 1905 work The Hourglass a reaction to the objectivism of women. In August 1883, De Morgan met the prominent ceramicist William De Morgan, and on 5 March 1887, they married. They spent their lives together in London. De Morgan, a pacifist was deeply spiritual, expressed her horror at the First World War and South African War in over 15 war paintings including The Red Cross and S.O.S. Relative to artistic pursuits, money was unimportant to the De Morgans’; any profits from sales of Morgan's paintings went toward financing William's pottery business and she actively contributed ideas to his ceramics designs. Two years after his death in 1917, Morgan died on 2 May 1919 in London and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking, Surrey.
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Pre-Raphaelite, British turn of the 20th C 'Study of a tree' by Evelyn de Morgan
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Study of a tree pencil on paper 19 x 11.3/4 in. (48.2 x 30 cm.) Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection. Dom...
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British turn of the 20th Century 'Narcissi' by Pre-Raphaelite Evelyn de Morgan
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Narcissi Pencil on paper 5.1/2 x 15 in. (14 x 38 cm.) Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection. Dominic Wint...
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Study of a Standing Female Nude
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in London, GB
Evelyn de Morgan Study of a Standing Female Nude 1855 - 1917 Black chalk and pastel on grey paper Image size: 12 ½ x 19 inches (48.2 x 31.7 cm) Pre-Raphaelite style frame Provenance J.S. Mass & Co., Ltd., London, J.X. Reynolds & Co., Ltd. Once she had graduated from the Slade School of Art, Evelyn continued to draw every day for the rest of her life. Her drawings are enlightening not only for their skill and subject matter, but also for their ability to teach us her working process. From loose compositional sketches, Evelyn swiftly progressed to detailed life studies for the figures in her paintings. Choosing to draw mainly on a grey wove paper in pencil and pastel, Evelyn produced hundreds of figure studies. Her rigorously-examined double studies of clothed and nude figures are particularly fascinating and underline the artist’s obsession with the human form and her desire for accuracy. A deep understanding of anatomy is obvious in this drawing and looking at the work you feel as though you can reach out and feel the muscle and bone under the skin, that you could feel the pulse of life through the soft skin. Evelyn de Morgan Born into a landowning family, from an early age Evelyn De Morgan, née Pickering, demonstrated a precocious artistic talent and a passionate desire to pursue a career as an artist, writing in her diary on her seventeenth birthday ‘Art is eternal, life is short… I have not a moment to lose’ (Evelyn De Morgan’s Diary, 30 August 1872, De Morgan Foundation Archive). Her maternal uncle, the artist John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope encouraged her talents and accompanied her on her first formative journeys to Italy where she discovered the Renaissance masters, particularly Botticelli. Overcoming initial parental opposition, Evelyn enrolled at the newly formed Slade School in 1873, one of the first women to do so. The Slade revolutionised women’s artistic education by allowing female students to study the nude from life alongside their male counterparts. Whilst at the Slade she began to submit work under her middle name Evelyn, rather than her Christian name Mary, as its gender ambiguity offered a chance for her work to be judged on its own merit. One of her tutors, Edward Poynter...
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H 7.09 in W 5.12 in
A girl II - XXI century, Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing
By Andrzej Szypluk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing PROVENANCE Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery. The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist. The Gallery o...
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1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Reclining Nude Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady French School, circa 1960's chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed size: 12.5 x 19 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: priva...
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H 19.5 in W 13.75 in D 0.1 in
Pensando & recordando a Luis Caballero, Nude Watercolor on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
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Painter in the Jardin de Luxembourg, Paris
Located in London, GB
'Painter in the Jardin de Luxembourg, Paris', pastel on fine art paper, French School (1919). An intriguing depiction of a hatted-woman dressed in white at her easel in the park. A b...
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H 18.75 in W 12 in
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Seated and Kneeling Female Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Ladies Sketch French School, circa 1960's chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed size: 18.75 x 12 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: private c...
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H 22.84 in W 17.72 in
Nude. Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing Polish artist
By Andrzej Szypluk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing on cardboard by Polish artist Andrzej Szypluk. Monochromatic drawing of a female in nude. PROVE...
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
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H 19.5 in W 13.75 in D 0.1 in
Duchándome, June 5th, Watercolor Nude, Pastel and Ink on Archival Paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Pastel, Watercolor, Paper, Ink
$269
H 19.5 in W 12.5 in
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Standing Nude Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady French School, circa 1960's signed chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed double sided size: 19.5 x 12.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be en...
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H 7.09 in W 5.12 in
Nude - XXI century, Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing
By Andrzej Szypluk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing PROVENANCE Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery. The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist. The Gallery o...
Chalk, Pastel, Pencil, Cardboard
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H 22.84 in W 17.72 in
Nude. Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing Polish artist
By Andrzej Szypluk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing on cardboard by Polish artist Andrzej Szypluk. Monochromatic drawing of a female in nude. PROVE...
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
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H 19.5 in W 13.75 in D 0.1 in
Pity June 4th. Nude watercolor on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalted the figure and genitality of the Latin American man, putting into tension the limits imposed by the sex/gender system that are part of an unquestionable patriarchal and phallocentric order. The majority of those portrayed are inhabitants of the Colombian coast, also constructing alternative ways of conceiving Latin American identity. By breaking taboos about corporality and male sexuality, his work has been censored on numerous occasions due to public accusations of immorality and pornography. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
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H 18.5 in W 11.5 in
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Elegant Nude Lady Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady French School, circa 1960's chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed stamped size: 18.5 x 11.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provena...
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Pre-Raphaelite, British turn of the 20th C, 'Olive branch', by Evelyn de Morgan
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) An olive branch Watercolour on paper 9 x 7.1/2 in. (22.8 x 19 cm.) Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection. ...
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Pre-Raphaelite, British turn of the 20th C, 'Olive Branches' by Evelyn de Morgan
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Olive branches Watercolour on paper 10 x 8.1/2 in. (25.3 x 21.7 cm.) Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection....
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Pre-Raphaelite drawing of lilies by Evelyn de Morgan, 20th Century British
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Lilies Pencil on grey paper heightened with white Inscribed ‘too long’ (beside a stalk) 9 x 5.3/8 in. (23 x 13...
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British turn of the 20th Century still life by Pre-Raphaelite Evelyn de Morgan
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Irises Watercolour on paper stabilised on card 11 x 8 in. (28 x 20.3 cm.) (an irregular cut of paper) Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection...
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Large olive branch
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Large olive branch Watercolour on paper 11 x 10.1/4 in. (28 x 26 cm.) Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection. ...
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Narcissi and apple blossom
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Narcissi and apple blossom Watercolour heightened with white on blue paper 9.5/8 x 13.3/4 in. (24.5 x 35 cm.) Evelyn de Morgan is identified ...
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British turn of the 20th C, 'twisted tree', by Pre-Raphaelite Evelyn de Morgan
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) A twisted tree study Pencil on paper 9.3/4 x 5.1/2 in. (24.8 x 14 cm.) Inscribed ‘dark grey / greeny lights’ (...
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Pre-Raphaelite, British turn of the 20th Century 'poppies' by Evelyn de Morgan
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Poppies Watercolour on paper 5.1/2 x 7.1/2 in. (14 x 20 cm.) Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection. Domin...
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Hands
By Evelyn de Morgan
Located in London, GB
An important second generation Pre-Raphaelite, Evelyn De Morgan returned to the expressive gesture of hands throughout her career, exploring it in paintings such as Storm Spirits (19...
Paper, Chalk