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Ritratto di nudo femminile matita su carta firmato e datato
By Guido Peyron
Located in Florence, IT
Figura femminile nuda con i capelli lunghi sciolti, seduta frontale, con accanto un vaso di fiori (matita su carta, 31 x 22 cm) firmato e datato a penna "G. Peyron 1947" .
Guido Peyr...
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1940s Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nude Study, Graphite on Paper, 20th Century British Artwork
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 22 x 26 inches (56 x 66 cm)
Mounted and framed
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth Rothwell...
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20th Century Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
White Hairbrush II
By Michael Leonard
Located in London, GB
Graphite pencil on paper, 18.5cm x 19cm, (framed 50cm x 42cm). (Provenance: from the artist.)
Leonard is probably best known for his portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth, in the National ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Seated Nude female figure chalk drawing by Hilary Hennes
Located in London, GB
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Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Seated Nude
Chalks
56 x 38 cm
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Mid-20th Century Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Standing Nude female figure chalk drawing by Hilary Hennes
Located in London, GB
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Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Standing Nude
Chalks
56 x 38 c...
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Mid-20th Century Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Contemporary Pastel - Juggling Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
A surreal nude in oil pastel showing a woman, her arms shielding her eyes as four purple balls float in front of her. The drawing is unsigned and presented in a substantial contempor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$484 Sale Price
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Michael D‘Aguilar (1924-2011) - Signed 1983 Pastel, Reclining Nude
By Michael D‘Aguilar
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate pastel study of a female nude reclining on a bed in a simple setting. Unlike other works by the artist this one has been done in brighter pink and purple tones contrasting...
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20th Century Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Francesco Furini Sanguine Drawing before 1642
Located in Florence, IT
Preparatory Drawing (sanguine on paper, 42 x 28 cm) by Francesco Furini for the making of the Saint Sebastian, ordered by the prince Lorenzo de' Medic...
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1640s Baroque Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
#2203D, Original Figurative Painting, Minimalist Nude Artwork, Still Life Art
Located in Deddington, GB
#2203D is an original drawing by David Jones. David Jones, artist, is pleased to present a series of nude drawings in the style of Matisse.
David Jones, artist draws Matisse style ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nude Reading by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO -Figurative work on paper, School of Paris
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Nude Reading by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952)
Black and colour pencil on paper
3...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil, Paper
Disegno figurativo ritratto nudo femminile italiano del XX secolo su carta
By Giovanni Colacicchi
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, firmato in basso a destra a matita in corsivo Colacicchi, è uno studio per i vari dipinti dedicati alla figura della Sibilla, nello specifico quello esposto nella Galleri...
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1950s Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nude 6, Ellen Williams, Original Drawing, Figurative Nude Portraiture, Black Pen
By Ellen Williams
Located in Deddington, GB
Nude 6 by Ellen Williams [2021]
original
Black ink pen on cartridge paper
Image size: H:42 cm x W:29 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:42 cm x W:29 cm x D:0.01cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Nude 9, Ellen Williams, Original Drawing, Figurative Nude Portraiture, Pen Art
By Ellen Williams
Located in Deddington, GB
Nude 9 by Ellen Williams [2021]
original
Black ink pen on cartridge paper
Image size: H:42 cm x W:29 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:42 cm x W:29 cm x D:0.01cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Ellen Williams, Nude 2, Original Minimalist Figurative Drawing, Contemporary Art
By Ellen Williams
Located in Deddington, GB
Nude 2 [2021]
Original
Nudes and Erotic
Black Ink Pen on Cartridge Paper
Size: H:42 cm x W:29 cm x D:0.01cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Kneeling Nude
By Mortimer Menpes
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Mortimer Luddington Menpes, 1855-1938, was an Australian born English painter, printmaker, illustrator and author. Menpes left Australia in his early twenties with his family and ca...
Category
20th Century Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Charcoal, Paper
Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Watercolour, coloured crayon and pencil
26.3 x 20.2 cm ( 10 ⅜ x 8 inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana - Pissarro.
Executed c...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Pair of Drawings with Apollo And Creugante 1916'
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of classical drawings representing Apollo de Belvedere And Creugante .
Classical mythologic subjects. Timeless decoration for your interior .
Black pencil on paper . Signe...
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1910s Academic Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Nudes in a Garden with Palm Tree, 1934 circa - 20th C Nude Watercolor Painting
By Blair Hughes-Stanton
Located in Kingsclere, GB
1934, circa
watercolour
40.6 x 53.8 cm
16 x 21 1/4 in
Work on Paper
Category
1930s Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sketch front back neoclassicism Milanese caryatids of the 18th century
Located in Florence, IT
Double-sided sketch for the "Sala delle Cariatidi" of the Royal Palace in Milan.
The vibrant and intense brown ink sketch of these two female figures, executed by the Parma plastici...
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1770s Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Tuscan Florentine Female Nude Portrait Drawing 20th century pencil paper
By Ugo Capocchini
Located in Florence, IT
Pencil on paper 32.5 x 23.5 cm.
The subject is a double study of a female nude.
It's signed at the bottom right, "U. Capocchini".
Ugo Capocchini was an Italian artist. He won many ...
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1930s Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Surprise
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Boris Akopian "Surprise"
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1990s Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Flowers before noon
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Boris Akopian "Flowers before noon"
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1990s Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Endless Morning
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Boris Akopian "Endless Morning"
Category
1990s Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Eklo Haude Bernabé 21st Century drawing Africa pastel colour flora art
By Haude Bernabé
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower left by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Disegno fronte retro figurativo toscano nudo femminile del XX secolo
By Ugo Capocchini
Located in Florence, IT
Disegno fronte retro matita su carta, 330 x 240 mm.
Su un lato, in verticale, è raffigurato un nudo femminile seduto in un ambiente domestico, colto nell'atto di voltarsi verso lo s...
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1930s Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Traditional nude drawings by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude drawing
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Traditional nude drawings by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pencil on paper
34.1 x 26.5 cm (13 ³/₈ x 10 ³/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile-Pissarro-
This work ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Disegno figurativo neoclassico fiorentino studio di nudo in cornice intagliata
Located in Florence, IT
Questo disegno, matita su carta 14 x 10 cm, è uno squisito esempio di "Accademia", ovvero studio dal vero da modello nudo che era una delle attività tipiche nelle accademie, soprattu...
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Figure Study
Located in London, GB
Black and red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 31cm x 27cm (50cm x 45cm framed).
Delmotte was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and Belgian sculptor. A realist painter at first, he was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century. An impressive list of gallery exhibitions of his work during his lifetime, either independently or as part of a group, indicate that he was a known and successful figure in art worlds of Belgium and Europe. Marcel Delmotte received numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He was named Knight of the Order of Leopold II...
Category
1930s Art Deco Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
By the lake. 1992. Paper/watercolor. 84x59.5 cm.
Located in Riga, LV
By the lake. 1992. Paper/watercolor. 84x59.5 cm.
Malda Muizule
Malda Muižule was born in 1937 in the family of a blacksmith. Graduated from Liepāja Applied Arts High School (1957)....
Category
1990s Post-Modern Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$713 Sale Price
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Preciosa I
Located in BARCELONA, ES
The Preciosa series explores the intimacy of the female body through a subtle and deeply respectful gaze.
Using pencil on paper, Natalia Mancilla captures the softness of the skin, t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Figurative drawing neoclassical Tuscan historical subject from the 19th century
By Francesco Nenci
Located in Florence, IT
The proposed attribution for this drawing in brown ink on paper is the name of the painter and academician of the Tuscan-Roman neoclassical cohort Francesco Nenci (Anghiari, April 19...
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nu au fauteuil
By Gen Paul
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
GEN PAUL (1895-1975)
Nu au fauteuil
Ink and pencil drawing
Size: 26 x 20 cm
Dimensions with frame: 43 x 37 cm
Signed upper right.
In perfect state of conservation
Framing is FREE
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20th Century French School Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Pastel, Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
$1,308
Were you waiting. Nude drawing. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 70x47 cm
Located in Riga, LV
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.
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
$552 Sale Price
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Cartone preparatorio figurativo mitologico italiano del XX secolo
By Giovanni Colacicchi
Located in Florence, IT
Cartone preparatorio per la lunetta che fu parte del progetto decorativo della Banca Commerciale a Firenze, attualmente sede nel negozio di moda maschile di Stefano Ricci, commission...
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1960s Post-War Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nude seated woman, 1965 - gouache, 49x32 cm., framed
By Jean Hélion
Located in Nice, FR
Important work by Jean Hélion. Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midca...
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1960s Cubist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Disegno figurativo fronte retro neoclassico dall'antico del XIX secolo su carta
Located in Florence, IT
Questo disegno (matita su carta 37,5 x 24 cm) su carta vergellata orizzontale con doppia filigrana ( giglio coronato di Strasburgo e cartiglio con il monogramma CM) è uno studio acca...
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Disegno figurativo allegorico italiano stile Decò della prima metà del XX secolo
By Marcello Dudovich
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno in questione rappresenta una figura figura femminile nuda in piedi con le braccia alzate, in una posa solenne come fiero è il suo sguardo, ai cui piedi sta sdraiata una fi...
Category
1930s Art Deco Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
“A Balinese woman with offerings” (1936)
By Theo Meier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
“A Balinese woman with offerings”
Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left
Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm
In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel.
Provenance:
Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, London
Note:
Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return.
In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...
Category
1930s Expressionist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Jeune Femme de Dos au Zèbre by Georges Manzana Pissarro, circa 1915
By Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Jeune Femme de Dos au Zèbre by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Charcoal on paper
66 x 49 cm (26 x 19 ¼ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana
Executed circa 1915
This work is ac...
Category
1910s Art Deco Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Yvonne debout by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude drawing of the artist's wife
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
THIS WORK IS SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne debout by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pencil on paper
30.5 x 26 cm (12 x 10 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower centre, P...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Elegant woman nude portrait in red oil on canvas by contemporary Italian painter
By Simone Geraci
Located in Milan, IT
Young Sicilian (Italy) painter, Simone Geraci was born in 1985 in Palermo, where he lives and works. In 2012, he graduated from Accademia di Belle Arti of Palermo with a major in art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Raymonde Heudebert, Study of a sleeping Man, Pencil on paper, circa 1930
By Raymonde Heudebert
Located in PARIS, FR
Raymonde HEUDEBERT (1905-1991)
Study of a sleeping Man
Pencil on paper
On the back : various studies and annotations
Dimensions of the work : 24 x 16 cm
Small trace of fold in the up...
Category
Mid-20th Century Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Disegno figurativo italiano ritratto femminile penna su carta XX secolo
By Giovanni Colacicchi
Located in Florence, IT
Disegno penna su carta firmato in basso a destra Colacicchi a matita.
Raffigura una figura femminile nuda, seduta e piegata su stessa, nell'atto di toccarsi il piede.
Figure in quest...
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Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Yvonne Posant by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 - Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne Posant by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paulémile-Pissarro-, and titled lower rig...
Category
1930s Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Jeune Femme de Dos au Zèbre by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Jeune Femme de Dos au Zèbre by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal on paper
66 x 49 cm (26 x 19 ¼ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana
Executed circa 1915
This work is acco...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Undressing by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Undressing by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
13.6 x 10.6 cm (5 ³/₈ x 4 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower right, manzana- Pissarro
This work is accompa...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Odette aux seins nus by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Mixed Media Print
By Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Odette aux seins nus by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Mixed media and gold on paper
31.5 x 42.3 cm (12 ³/₈ x 16 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana.
Executed circa 1910...
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1910s Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mythological pen-on-paper drawing inspired by Annibale Carracci's frescoes
By Annibale Carracci
Located in Florence, IT
Pen drawing, pencil and sanguine elevations on paper.
The subject echoes Annibale Carracci's frescoes at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome (1597-1607), specifically the episode in which H...
Category
Early 19th Century Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen, Pencil
Free Floating Blue Wave Nude - 10-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Color Addition This pastel drawing ‘Free Floating Blue Wave Nude – 10-02-21’ is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 19-07-16’. In my art statement to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Study for 'The Thought' or 'The Mediterranean'
By Aristide Maillol
Located in London, GB
ARISTIDE MAILLOL 1861-1944
1861 Banyuls sur Mer - 1944 Paris (French)
Title: Study for 'The Thought' or 'The Mediterranean' / Etude pour 'la Pensee' ou ...
Category
Early 1900s Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Italian neoclassical monochrome on paper with a religious theme Adam and Eve
By Luigi Ademollo
Located in Florence, IT
With an immediately clean and elegant impact, we already know that this drawing can be counted among the valuable range of Ademollian early graphic art for two reasons: the subject, ...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor, Pen, Graphite
Kneeling Nude by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Charcoal on paper
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Kneeling Nude by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952)
Charcoal on paper
19 x 27 cm (7 ¹/₂ x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)
Initalled lower middle
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authent...
Category
20th Century Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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...
Category
20th Century Victorian Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
Price Upon Request
Essence of Line, Ink Nude Study, Early 20th Century Drawing, Signed and Dated
Located in London, GB
Ink on paper, signed and dated '34 lower left
Image size: 9 3/4 x 15 inches (24.75 x 24.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
A unique drawing, this work is typical of Brodzky's early nudes with its economy in the use of the line and the seemingly relaxed, informal pose of the model. The spontaneous feel of many of Brodsky's drawings does in a way indicate that the works, such as the present drawing, are purely sketches and studies. In fact, Brodsky was known for making perhaps twenty or thirty drawings at a sitting and of those he preserved perhaps only a handful, only those that 'pass his rigorous censorship sum up qualities resulting from the perfect collaboration of hand and eye and sensibility' (Forty Drawings by Horace Brodsky, by James Laver, 1935, p.15).
Laver continued to write that 'Brodsky preferred a pose that showed the body from an unexpected angle, daringly foreshortened or with the weight of the various parts freed from the monotony of the standing pose. He liked to see his models from above, the limbs relaxed, and.... he made many of his drawings from a step-ladder drawn up close to the platform on which the model is lying'.
Horace Brodsky
Horace Ascher Brodzky (30 January 1885 – 11 February 1969) was an Australian-born artist and writer most of whose work was created in London and New York. His work included paintings, drawings and linocuts, of which he was an early pioneer. An associate in his early career of many leading artists working in Britain of his period, including Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Mark Gertler, and members of the Vorticism movement, he ended his life relatively neglected.
Brodzky was born in Kew, Melbourne in 1885 to the Australian journalist Maurice Brodzky (a Jewish immigrant to Australia from Poland), and his wife Flora, née Leon. In his youth he assisted his father in the production of the magazine Table Talk.
Brodzky studied initially at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. In 1904 his father was bankrupted after exposing corruption, and Horace moved with his family to San Francisco.
In 1908, Brodzky went to London where he studied during 1911 at the City and Guilds South London Technical Art School. He became an acquaintance and follower of Walter Sickert. Amongst his friends was Henri Gaudier-Brzeska who created in 1913 a portrait bust of Brodzky (now in the Tate Gallery, London), and whose biography he wrote in 1933. Brodzky is said to have been so engrossed in talk when he visited Gaudier-Brzeska's studio in the King's Road, that he missed the last bus to Herne Hill where he lived.
Brodzky travelled to Italy with the poet John Gould Fletcher and this led to his first London exhibition, "Paintings and Sketches of Italian and Sicilian Scenes" (c. 1911), of which one painting was selected for the 1912 Venice Biennale. He was in fact the first Australian to be exhibited at the Biennale. In 1914 his work was exhibited along with that of other Jewish artists, including Mark Gertler and David Bomberg, in the Whitechapel Gallery. Brodzky became a member of The London Group. During this period he was a pioneer of the technique of linocut, in which medium he has been said to have "excelled". His early oils reveal the influence of both Gertler and Bomberg. Among his works of this period are portraits of Jacob Epstein and Jacob Kramer.
In 1915 Brodzky moved to New York, with an introduction to the art patron John Quinn. There he worked as a poster artist and an arts journalist, and in 1917 helped Quinn organize a New York exhibition of Vorticist artists. In 1919 he married Bertha Greenfield; they were to have three sons. In 1920 Egmont Arens...
Category
1930s Modern Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Shower Study II, 20th Century, David Hockney, Drawing, Modern British
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
David Hockney
Shower Study 2, 1963
signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Shower Study 2 DH. '63' (lower right)
wax crayon and graphite on paper
12 3/8 x 9 7/8 in (31.4...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Europe - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Graphite
