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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
Portrait - Watercolor by Anastasia Kurakina - 2019
By Anastasia Kurakina
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait 2019 is an original and beautiful watercolor realized by Anastasia Kurakina in 2019.
The picture is in good conditions, on a brown paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Bodegon II - Contemporary, Still Life, Fruits, Light Blue, Yellow, Banana, Lemon
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Bodegon II, 2014
Tempera on paper (Signed, Framed)
27 3/5 H × 39 2/5 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
On the subject of his new works the artist stated:
“There is not enough orange, yellow and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
German School 19th Century,
Portrait of a boy,
pencil on paper
25.7 x 16 cm (view)
Framed : 41.8 x 31.5 cm
The style and execution are v...
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1850s Romantic Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Young woman naked from behind
By Henri Fehr
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Workshop stamp on the back of the work
Category
20th Century Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
French School 19th Century, A Muskeeter, original pencil drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th Century
A Muskeeter
Pencil on paper
26.5 x 17 cm
Bears a signature "F. Roybet" in the lower right
In quite good condition, bears some visible foxings,
In an old mount (some damages)
(not framed)
Even if the style, execution and of course subject are those of Ferdinand Roybet...
Category
1890s Academic Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Autumn verso Summer Landscape / - Imagined Landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Seidel, Herbert (1906-1974), Autumn verso Summer Landscape, 1953
Herbert Seidel (1906 Berlin - 1974 Rüdersdorf), Autumn verso Summer Landscape, 1953. India ink on grained, bleached p...
Category
1950s Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Nude at the Window - original art by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude at the Window" Tempera on paper, Part of my Nude in Interior series. Inspired by Matisse.
Shipped rolled in a tube. Free shipping with 1stDibs code Freeship for items over $500...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Archival Paper
" Debardeur bleu " . Marrakech . Nude Male Erotic
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent ( 1936-2008 )
" Débardeur bleu " circa 1973 . from le Prince de Babylone
color pencil , Felt-Tip pen , colored pencil and graphite on paper .
27 X 21 cm . NUDE & UNIQUE .. Marrakech .
private collection FRANCE .
" Yves Saint Laurent led a revolution in women's fashion in the 60's "
born in Oran , Algeria , in 1936 , Saint Laurent was a keenly intelligent child ,
he fell in love with fashion at an early age ...
By his late teens , Saint Laurent was in Paris and a rising star of couture. after the sudden death of hid mentor Christian Dior in 1957, he became the head the illustrious fashion housesat the age of just 21 .
It was, after all , the golden era of YéYé Pop , his clothes became the uniform joyful bohemian dissent .
"Yves Saint Laurent and Andy Warhol "
In 1970 Andy Warhol came to Paris to film" L'amour " his transgressive travel movie featuring , somewhat surprisingly Karl Lagerfeld as a German aristocrat .
Warhol spend much of hid time with Yves ...
In 1961 , Saint Laurent founded his own label , bringing an insouciant elegance to his clean , minimal designs .the designs were playful and witty and Saint Laurent paid hommage to his artistic heroes
Piet Mondrian and Tom Wesselman ...
" Saint Laurent and Marrakech "
In 1966 the designer travelled to Morocco with his lover and business partner Pierre Bergé .it was the beginning of fascination with the city of Marrakech that lasted for the rest of Saint Laurent's life .
At the center of Marrakech scene was the American oil heir John Paul...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Castle by Charle Goetz - Watercolor 24x30 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper by Isaac Charles Goetz
Category
1960s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The feather of the soul by José Gerson - Gouache on paper 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1970s Surrealist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Color Pencil
César - Friendship - Original Signed Watercolor
By César Baldaccini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
César Baldaccini
Original Watercolor and ink pencil on paper dedicaced and signed in red
Dimensions: 27 x 26 cm
Signed
César Baldaccini was born in Marseille in 1921. At the age of 12, he left the school to help his father, cooper. At 15 years old, he studied at the Art college of Marseille. He took evening drawing teachings, and then was interested in sculpture until 1939.
In 1942, César received a scholarship and went to Paris. He studied ten years at the School of Beaux-Arts; he worked in the studios of Gaumont and Alfred Jeanniot and was named “Grand Massier” (teacher) of this school. At that time, he was living in the same house as Alberto Giacometti.
In 1944, short of resources, he went to Marseille, then return to Paris, next year. With the 50s, he made discovered his work through his first exhibitions. One of its works (« The fish ») obtained a place in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1955). Henceforth, he exhibited ceaselessly, participating in numerous “Salons” in France and abroad. César received numerous prices there. He got personal exhibitions everywhere (Japan, the United States, Holland, France, Italy, etc.). Important retrospectives came, later. In 1970, he was named professor a foreman to the School of Beaux-Arts in Paris.
During his all life, Caesar was stimulated by « the love of the profession » and by an extraordinary will to innovate. The humor of the man did not miss and was noticed through his work. Pablo Picasso was his major reference, also Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, Pablo Gargallo and Julio Gonzales...
Category
1970s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Südafrika
Located in Wien, 9
> signed and dated lower rights
> titled lower left
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Masked - blue nude - by Paula Craioveanu - original art inspired by Matisse
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Masked
Part of my Blue Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper.
Masked Nude was part of solo show "Nude in Interior" see pi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) A landscape by the river, signed watercolor
By Paul Emile Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul-Emile Lecomte (1877-1950)
Landscape by he river
Signed lower right
watercolor on paper
11.5 x 13.5 cm
Framed : 23 x 29 cm
Paul Emile Lecomte particularly excelled in small-...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'The Dancers', French Late Mid Century Gouache on Textured Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Mid Century French watercolour and Gouache on handmade paper of a pair of dancers by Damien Hermellin. Signed and dated bottom right. Pres...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Cute Baby Cats - Handsigned Original Ink Drawing
By Laszlo Tibay
Located in Paris, IDF
Laszlo TIBAY
Cute Baby Cats
Original India ink and lavish drawing
Handsigned
Bearing the stamp of the artist
On light board 40 x 30cm (c. 14 x 11.8inch)
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
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...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
Walpurgis Nacht - Drawing by A. Kubin - 1920
By Alfred Kubin
Located in Roma, IT
Walpurgis Nacht is a drawing with pen and Indian ink on paper, realized by Alfred Kubin in 1920,
Hand-signed.
Provenance Zevi Collection Milan.
Included a frame.
In very good co...
Category
1920s Symbolist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Pen
La Balustrade
By Henri Le Sidaner
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Ce paysage silencieux, dénué de toute présence humaine, présente des effets de lumière et des vibrations caractéristiques du faire "ouaté" d’Henri Le Sidaner, qu’il a décliné de mani...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Roundism – 17-07-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 17-07-18 Another session with my model and I used an unusual point of view: above her and it took the challenge to capture the foreshortened shapes of her body. Lucki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Stage design of Mausoleum. Entourage Galli Bibbiena.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Galli Bibiena Dynasty and European Courts.
The Galli Bibiena family, renowned Italian artists and scenographers, served the most distinguished European courts, including those ...
Category
18th Century Baroque Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a China Ink Drawing and Watercolor realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a cream colored paper.
No signature, titled and dated...
Category
1970s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Morning in the Forest - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Morning in The Forest
Original charcoal drawing
Handsigned on the bottom left of the sheet
On canson paper 64,5 x 50 cm (c. 25,3 x 19,6 inch)
Excellent condition
Gaston Coppens studied sculpture in the prestigious Ecoule Boulle (Paris). Working in Boulogne Billancourt, just near Paris, his drawings keep the influence of his first formation : modeling volumes, subliming with harmony light and shadow. He was also influenced by the first cubist painters...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
1996: Gianluca Vialli - Juventus Captain in Rest.
Located in Firenze, IT
1996: Gianluca Vialli - Juventus Captain in Rest, Icon of Modern Myths
Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017) ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board
Pink Bouquet - Contemporary Flowers Inc, 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 Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 06 - Series 2019, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness
By Tomasz Prymon
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Torso (Red Madonna) - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expressionism
By Maciej Olekszy
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you.
Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
View of an Antique City, a wash landscape by Jan de Bisschop (1628 - 1671)
Located in PARIS, FR
The attribution to Jan de Bisschop has been confirmed by the RKD with the following comment: "We base this attribution on the dark washes, the subject represented and the monogram".
...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
The Fish - Pencil on Paper by J. P. Verdussen - 1775 ca.
By Jan Peeter Verdussen
Located in Roma, IT
The Fish is a beautiful drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1755 ca.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower in pencil.
In good condition, and aged.
The artwo...
Category
1770s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Frosch Serenade - Drawing by L. von Hoffmann - Early 20th Century
By Ludwig von Hoffmann
Located in Roma, IT
Frosch Serenade is an original drawing in watercolour and pencil on paper, realized by Ludwig Von Hofmann .
Framed.
In very good conditions.
The artwork represents a nude woman-bu...
Category
1910s Expressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Disparate III - Contemporary, Figurative, Ananas, Green, Red, Portrait, Male
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Disparate III, 2014
Tempera on paper (Signed, Framed)
27 3/5 H × 39 2/5 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
On the subject of his new works the artist stated:
“There is not enough orange, yellow ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Berty Seuron, 1st Dancer by Leon-Laurent Galand - Drawing - 43x57 cm
By Leon-Laurent Galand 1
Located in Geneva, CH
Sold without the frame.
Léon Laurent Galand is a French painter and illustrator born April 18, 1872 in Montpellier (Hérault) and died November 4, 1960 in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine).
L...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Crayon
Geneva's landscape; Villa in front of the Salève by Goetz - Drawing 36x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1940s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Tulips. 1995, paper, watercolor, 55x74.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...
Category
1980s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Abstract Composition T1, 1982 - gouache-mixed media, 73x102 cm, framed
By Gérald Thupinier
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper and technic mixed, signed lower left.
Category
1980s Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Landscape. 2007. Oil on cardboard, 22x30, 5 cm
By Edgars Vinters
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. 2007. Oil on cardboard, 22x30,5 cm
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014)
Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seas...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a dandy, watercolor on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a dandy,
watercolor on paper
19 x 13 cm
Signed (?) with pencil lower right "L ... " illegible
Framed : 29 x 23 cm
Category
1880s Romantic Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
" Studio per Ritratto di Lady Anne Simms Reeve of Brancaster Hall " 1870 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Raro studio dell'artista Preraffaellita Frederick Sandys,Studio per l’opera
Portrait of a Lady,( Anne Simms Reeve of Brancaster Hall, Norfolk) proprie...
Category
1870s Pre-Raphaelite Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
Masked Beauty in Blue original female nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Masked Beauty in Blue , pencil and tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio.
See pictures, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The valley by Charles Goetz - Watercolor 36x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on Paper by Isaac Charles Goetz
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage art portrait - Paris, belle epoque, two elegant ladies - pastel signed
By Paul Hoeniger
Located in PARIS, FR
Currently Under restoration by professionnal.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
Presale order accepted. Yes.
Paul Hoeniger studied at the art academies in Ber...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Untitled 4 - Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness, Lively Colors
By Tomasz Prymon
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
JOSEPHINE BAKER .Original drawing by JEAN COCTEAU . ART DECO .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
double portrait de Joséphine Baker by Jean Cocteau .
Ink on paper . executed in 1925-1927. 27x21cm . Framed : 45x38cm .
The authenticity of the work has been confirmed by Annie Gued...
Category
1920s Art Deco Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Portrait Old Master, Joseph Vivien, Mme Silvestre, French Rococo, Pastel
By Joseph Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
The portrait shows Mme Silvestre.
Born in Paris, Silvestre was the daughter of Charles-Antoine Hérault and his wife Marie-Geneviève, who were her first teachers. In 1706 she married the painter Louis de Silvestre, moving with him in 1716 to Dresden. The couple's daughter Marie-Maximilienne became a pastellist. Silvestre died in Dresden, the year before her husband retired and returned to Paris. Her surviving pastels show the influence of Rosalba Carriera...
Category
18th Century Rococo Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Sketch - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is a black market drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a little sheet of notebook.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Rural landscape. Paper, watercolor, 30 x 41. 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rural landscape. Paper, watercolor, 30x41.5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies ...
Category
1970s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 35 - Series 2019, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness
By Tomasz Prymon
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Large Drawing, Study Of Dancers
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri ROYER
Nancy 1869 - 1938 Paris
Study of dancers
Sanguine pastel and charcoal on cream white paper
Circa 1900-1910
Unsigned
47 x 62.5 cm sheet
67 x 83 cm cm frame
Provenance: Es...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media
Birds - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Birds is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in mid 20th century.
Charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Signed by the artist.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-R...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Couple at Party - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Couple at Party is a Watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1940s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 192...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
In the Afternoon Sun - original female nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Nude in the Afternoon Sun, pencil and tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series. Shipped rolled in a tube. Free shipping for item over $ 500 with 1stDibs code FREESHIP.
In mat and framed as they were in the February exhibition, for display purposes.
"In the Afternoon Sun" is an evocative and skillful piece that captures the interplay between light, shadow, and the human form with remarkable sensitivity. The artist’s use of ultramarine tempera on ochre paper transforms a simple moment—sunlight filtering through a window—into an artwork filled with vitality, sensuality, and rhythm.
The subject's upward-reaching gesture, with one arm stretched behind her head, creates an elegant, sinuous line that imbues the piece with energy and a sense of motion. Her relaxed expression contrasts with the dynamism of her pose, creating a balance between activity and repose. The figure’s directness, combined with the slight tilt of her head and the open nature of the pose, draws the viewer in, making her seem both vulnerable and self-assured. The intimacy of the moment is heightened by the interplay of light and shadow.
The striped patterns of light and shadow play a leading role, emphasizing the contours and textures of the body. These light effects are not only realistic but also deeply expressive, almost creating an abstract overlay that adds rhythm to the composition. The stripes of sunlight create a sense of dimensionality, as if the viewer is peering into a real scene. The interplay of warm ochre and vibrant ultramarine enhances this layered effect, making the shadows feel alive.
The artist’s loose, fluid lines lend the piece a sense of immediacy and spontaneity, suggesting that this is a fleeting, captured moment. The gestural strokes used to delineate the figure and the shadows allow the piece to feel natural and unrestrained. The figure is the undeniable focal point, with the bold ultramarine providing sharp contrast against the warm ochre. The background elements, though faintly suggested, remain unobtrusive, allowing the shadows on the body to take center stage.
The work’s focus on sunlight playing across the nude figure evokes a sense of warmth, intimacy, and sensuality. There is a tactile quality to the shadows, as if the viewer can feel the heat of the afternoon sun. The relaxed pose, combined with the tranquil mood of the sunlight, suggests a private moment of reflection or contentment. The piece feels deeply personal yet universally relatable.
The emphasis on light and its interaction with the human form recalls the Impressionist movement, particularly the works of artists like Degas and Renoir. However, the gestural modernity of the brushwork gives this piece a contemporary flair. Throughout art history, the relationship between light and the human body has fascinated artists, from Caravaggio's dramatic chiaroscuro to Matisse’s lyrical nudes. This piece situates itself within that rich tradition while bringing a fresh and immediate perspective.
"In the Afternoon Sun" is a masterful exploration of the interaction between light, shadow, and the human form, capturing both the physical and emotional warmth of a sunlit afternoon. The artist's ability to balance naturalistic detail with expressive abstraction makes this piece both visually stunning and deeply resonant. It’s a celebration of the human figure in its purest, most natural state—bathed in sunlight and alive with the rhythms of nature.
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Ancient City - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient City is a drawing realized in the Early 20th Century by an unknown french master.
Pencil on paper.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes mast...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Abstract composition by Julien Dinou - Charcoal on paper A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Black plastic frame with glass pane
31,5 x 41 x 2 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Two women dancing indoors
By Jose Caballero
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
68.5 x 57.5 x 4 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Water Bearers in the Desert - Drawing by Edouard Dufeu - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Water Bearers in the Desert is an artwork realized by Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900) during early 20th century.
Good condition.
Pencil and ink technique.
Edouard Dufeu coming from a fa...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Repenser l'observable, Watercolour, Charcoal, Seascape, Britany Landscape
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade and Unique Work. Not Framed. Museum matting & backing included, ready to be framed in a standard frame 40x30 cm.
Medium : Watercolour and Charcoal ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Black White Abstraction 005 Painting by Anastasia Vasilyeva, 2019
By Anastasia Vasilyeva
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - Black white abstraction 005 (2019)
Painting on high quality, acid free, high density paper.
Conceptual minimalist abstract painting designed in calligraphic st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Farm view by Charles Goetz - Watercolor 27x34 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper by Isaac Charles Goetz
Category
1960s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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