Continental Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 41 x 31.5 x 1.2 cm

The drawing, signed at the right bottom corner Colacicchi, is a study for the painting Psyche, exhibited for the first time in 1939 at the Ussi Prize-planned by the Florence Academy ...

Nude Man is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about the 1950s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a white Passepartout. Monogrammed on the lower " G.T" Good Conditio...

Morning dawn. 2014, paper, watercolor, 60x50 cm Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Abiļevs. H...

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 37 x 45.7 x 3 cm

Sisters is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981 ca. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The...

Nude is an original Pen drawing on paper realized by Sergio Barletta in The 1970s. Good conditions. Hand-Signed. Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, ...

Françoise GILOT (1921-) Woman in the Hammam Original Pastel Drawing Signed bottom right On paper 74 x 55 cm at view (c. 30 x 22 in) Presented in golden wood frame 96 x 77 cm (c. 38...

Reclined Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in the 1950s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a white Passepartout. Monogrammed on the lower " G.T" Good Condition...

Attributed to Eugene Deully (1866-1933) A woman , study, Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on blue grey paper in two parts, the left part added ...

Nude of Woman is an Original Pen Drawing realized by Marcel Spranck (1896-1978). The little artwork is in very good condition, included a yellow cardboard passpartout (50x32.5 cm). ...

This is drawing is signed and dated on the bottom right side "Colacicchi Firenze 1924". It's an Academia, depicting a nude male model sitted, holding a stick. The portrait is influenced by Metaphysical...

Standing Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in the 1950s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a white Passepartout. Monogrammed on the lower " G.T" Good Conditio...

Frame size 60x42 cm. Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell Year of birth: 1932 Biography: Member of a family spanish saga of artists, which highlighted Joaquim Vayreda, founder of the so-cal...

Pair of Nudes is an Pencil Drawing realized by an artist in early 20th century. The artwork is in good condition on a white paper. No signature. Other sketches on the back of the...

In the recent years Maris Abilevs has been exploring the beauty of female shapes by using mixed media and various drawing techniques raging from expressive sketching to neat lines.

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...

Landscape is an Original drawing in Pen and China Ink realized in 1940 by Paulette Humbert. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composi...

Female Figures is an original artwork, pastel, gouache on paper. Is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period early 20th Century. Two female figures under an intimate vi...

Reclined Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in the 1950s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a white Passepartout. Monogrammed on the lower " G.T" Good Condition...

Mid 20th Century Italian Futurist, Novecento Italiano, work on paper, signed bottom right and with dedication top right (see photos). The subject is bathers enjoying the delights of a spa and sauna with colourful tiling to the background. The classical figures languorously positioned in repose but the central 'white' figure in stark contrast. The play on colours gives the work a vibrancy. The drawing is possibly a preparatory sketch for a larger work or mural. A vibrant, exciting and colourful work incorporating the styles of Futurism and the Novecento Italiano movement and with the influences or artists such as Anselmo Bucci, Adami, Jean Helion, Maryan, Achille Funi and Ugo Guidi. Anselmo Bucci was born in 1887 in Fossombrone in the district of Pesaro. Even though he studied Classics, right from a tender age he showed a talent for drawing and, when his parents moved near to Florence, he was taught by the artist Francesco Salvini. In 1904 the family settled in Monza and so the boy was able to study for a year at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, but he did not follow up this educational experience and in 1906 he left Italy for Paris where he came into contact with the Parisian avant-garde, met fellow Italian artists such as Severini and Modigliani, and made friends with Picasso, Utrillo and Apollinaire. In 1907 he showed a painting at the Salon, but these Parisian years were most important for his love of engraving techniques – etching and dry point that enabled him to fully develop his themes characterised by movement. On the outbreak of war in 1915 he returned to Italy and he enlisted in the same battalion as several Futurist artists such as Martinetti, Boccioni, Sant’Elia and Carlo Erba. In 1914 he won the silver medal at the Mostra dell’Incisione (Exhibition of Engravings) at Florence. In 1917 in Paris he published pictures of war scenes entitled “Croquis du Front Italien”. In 1919 he printed twelve lithographs entitled “Finis Austriae” again showing events from the war. At the end of the war he lived between Milan and Paris and he dedicated his time completely to his art with personal exhibitions, exhibiting at all the most important Italian and French shows, in Belgium, Holland and England. In 1922, he established the group “Movimento del Novecento”, (Novecento Italiano), (20th century Movement) a joint venture with the artists Sironi, Funi, Oppi, Malerba, Dudreville and Marussig. Their aim was to return to figurative art in contrast with the growing extremism of the Avant-gardists. In 1925 he worked on the illustration of the first edition of Kipling’s The Jungle Book producing eight dry point plates. In the early 30’s he lived in Bucci, Trieste, where he worked on the furnishing of the steamships for the Trieste Navigazione Libera, at the same time he continued to work on many book illustrations. During the second European war he adapted to being a war artist recording the events of the war as he had done previously. Indeed the engravings depicting battles of the Marines and the Air Force belong to this period. In 1945, following the bombing of his house in Milan, he returned to Monza to his father’s home where he remained until his death. Futurism was an Italian art movement of the early twentieth century that aimed to capture in art the dynamism and energy of the modern world. Futurism was launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Among modernist movements futurism was exceptionally vehement in its denunciation of the past. This was because in Italy the weight of past culture was felt as particularly oppressive. In the Manifesto, Marinetti asserted that ‘we will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries’. What the futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology: We declare…a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing motor car…is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. (A celebrated ancient Greek sculpture in the Louvre museum in Paris.) Futurist painting used elements of neo-impressionism and cubism to create compositions that expressed the idea of the dynamism, the energy and movement, of modern life. Chief artists associated with futurism were Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini. After the brutality of the first world war, many artists rejected the avant-garde notions of futurism and other pre-war movements, by using more traditional and reassuring approaches, a phenomenon described as the ‘return to order’. Novecento Italiano was founded by Anselmo Bucci (1887–1955), Leonardo Dudreville (1885–1975), Achille Funi, Gian Emilio Malerba (1880–1926), Pietro Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi, and Mario Sironi. Motivated by a post-war "call to order", they were brought together by Lino Pesaro, a gallery owner interested in modern art, and Margherita Sarfatti, a writer and art critic who worked on Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's newspaper, The People of Italy (Il Popolo d'Italia). Sarfatti was also Mussolini's mistress. The movement was officially launched in 1923 at an exhibition in Milan, with Mussolini as one of the speakers. The group was represented at the Venice Biennale of 1924 in a gallery of its own, with the exception of Oppi, who exhibited in a separate gallery. Oppi's defection caused him to be ejected from the group, which subsequently split and was reformed. The new Novecento Italiano staged its first group exhibition in Milan in 1926. Several of the artists were war veterans; Sarfatti had lost a son in the war. The group wished to take on the Italian establishment and create an art associated with the rhetoric of fascism. The artists supported the fascist regime and their work became associated with the state propaganda department, although Mussolini reprimanded Sarfatti for using his name and the name of fascism to promote Novecento. The name of the movement (which means 1900s) was a deliberate reference to great periods of Italian art in the past, the Quattrocento and Cinquecento (1400s and 1500s). The group rejected European avant garde art and wished to revive the tradition of large format history painting in the classical manner. It lacked a precise artistic programme and included artists of different styles and temperament, for example, Carrà and Marini. It aimed to promote a renewed yet traditional Italian art. Sironi said, “if we look at the painters of the second half of the 19th century, we find that only the revolutionary were great and that the greatest were the most revolutionary”; the artists of Novecento Italiano “would not imitate the world created by God but would be inspired by it”. Despite official patronage, Novecento art did not always have an easy ride in Fascist Italy. Mussolini was personally uninterested in art and divided official support among various groups so as to keep artists on the side of the regime. Opening the exhibition of Novecento art in 1923 he declared that “it is far from my idea to encourage anything like a state art. Art belongs to the domain of the individual. The state has only one duty: not to undermine art, to provide humane conditions for artists, to encourage them from the artistic and national point of view." The movement was in competition with other pro-Fascist movements, especially Futurism and the regionalist Strapaese movement. Novecento Italiano also met outright opposition. Achille Starace, the General Secretary of the Fascist Party, attacked it in the Fascist daily press and there was virulent criticism of its “un-Italian" qualities by artists and critics. In the 1930s, a group of professors and students at the Accademia di Brera established an opposition group to Novecento Italiano. Among them was the director of the academy Aldo Carpi, and students Afro, Aldo Badoli, Aldo Bergolli, Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, Cherchi, Alfredo Chighine, Grosso, Renato Guttuso, Dino Lanaro, Giuseppe Migneco, Mantica, Ennio Morlotti, Aligi Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Italo Valenti, and Emilio Vedova (and later Giuseppe Ajmone...

The Posing Nude is an Original Drawing realised by Marthe Delacroix. Watercolour and pencil on the paper. Good conditions. The delicate and beautiful fine strokes form the artwork...

Lying Female Nude is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first half of the 20th Century. Pencil on paper. Cardboard passepartout included (cm 34 x 49). ...

Nude of woman is an original modern artwork realized in the half of 20th century by the french artist Emile Gilioli. Sanguine drawingon light brown paper. The artwork is hand signe...

Work on paper Stamp of the workshop of O. Vautier Dimension of the passe-partout framing 52.5 x 38 cm

Work on paper White wooden frame with glass pane 76,5 x 56,5 x 3 cm

ALEKSANDRA KALISZ Born in Gdynia in 1992. She currently lives and works in Portugal. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in the studio of Professor Maciej Swieszews...

Sleeping Boy is an original modern artwork realized in the 16th century by Giovanni Fontana. Ivory colored sheet attached on an ivory colored cardboard (...

The Posing Nude is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented posi...

Sitting Female Woman is an original charcoal drawing on green paper by an unknown artist of XIX century. This beautiful original drawing represents with an incredibly expressive and...

Nude is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy color paper glued on a white Passepartout realized by Tibor Gertler in the mid-20th century. Monogrammed on the lower right. Good co...

Walking is an original drawing in pencil realized in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composition.

The Lying Down Nude is an original Drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented p...

The Seated Woman is an original Drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented a seated woman...

Figure is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the Mid 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented posing nude thr...

Lying Female Nude is an original drawing realized between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the 20th Century in France by an Anonymous artist . Pencil on paper. Cardboard passe...

Nude is an original drawing in pen on ivory-colored paper realized by Anonymous Artist of the mid-20th Century. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. The artwork ...

Station is an original drawing in china ink realized in the 20th Century. Good conditions except for some foxings and worn margins. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in ...

In the recent years Maris Abilevs has been exploring the beauty of female shapes by using mixed media and various drawing techniques raging from expressive sketching to neat lines.

The Portrait Of A Farmer Woman is an original Drawing in charcoal on creamy-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Monogrammed on the lower right. ...

The Posing Nude is an original drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions with some foxing. The artwork is ...

The Posing Nude is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented posi...

In the recent years Maris Abilevs has been exploring the beauty of female shapes by using mixed media and various drawing techniques raging from expressive sketching to neat lines.

Figure is an original Drawing in watercolor on creamy-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the Mid 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented posing nude...

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In the recent years Maris Abilevs has been exploring the beauty of female shapes by using mixed media and various drawing techniques raging from expressive sketching to neat lines.

The Lying Down Nude is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented ...

Woman is an original modern artwork realized in the half of 20th century by Marguerite Bordet. Pastel and ink drawing. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame (fair condit...

Female Nude Figure is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first years of the 20th Century. Cardboard passepartout included (cm 49 x 34). Very good condi...

In the recent years Maris Abilevs has been exploring the beauty of female shapes by using mixed media and various drawing techniques raging from expressive sketching to neat lines.

Standing Nude with Smiling Face is an original artwork realized by a French artist in the beginning of the 20th Century. Pencil on paper. Cardboard passepartout included (cm 49 x 34)...

Figure is an original Drawing in watercolor on creamy-colored paper realized by an anonymous artist in the Mid 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented posing nude...

Morning Lines is a watercolor realized by Anastasia Kurakina in 2016. The little artwork is in good condition and with vivid colors. Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin. ...

The Posing Nude is an Original Drawing realised by Marthe Delacroix. Watercolour and pencil on the paper. Good conditions. The delicate and beautiful fine strokes form the artwork...

A woman is a contemporary artwork, realized in 2018 by the emerging artist Anastasia Kurakina. Mixed colored watercolor and china ink drawing on panel. Good conditions Hand signed...

Lying Nude is an original artwork realized in the first years of the 20th century by an Anonymous French artist. Pencil on paper. The initials of the artist are on the lower right. ...

Nude in Profile is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first years of the 20th century. Pencil on paper. Passepartout included. Good conditions except ...

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 85 x 68 x 2,7 cm