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Item Ships From: United Kingdom
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
#2209E, David Jones, Original Minimalist Drawing, Ink on Paper, Nude drawing
By David Jones, CH, CBE
Located in Deddington, GB
#2209E by David Jones [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Ink on Paper
Image size: H:40 cm x W:29 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:29 cm x D:0.1cm
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Ellen Williams, Nude 1, Original Nude Drawing, Affordable Art, Figurative Art
By Ellen Williams
Located in Deddington, GB
Nude 1 [2021]
Original
Nudes and Erotic
Black Ink Pen on Cartridge Paper
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
David Jones, 17H, Original Minimalist Drawing, Figurative Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
17H
Original Minimalist Drawing
Black Ink on 300gsm White Paper
Image Size: H 36cm x W 26 cm x D 0.1cm
Mount Size: H 50cm x W 40cm x D 0.3 cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look).
17H is an original drawing by David Jones...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nude 7, Ellen Williams, Original Drawing, Figurative Nude Portraiture, Black
By Ellen Williams
Located in Deddington, GB
Nude 7 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:2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Nude 1664, David Jones, Original Drawing, Figurative Portraiture Artwork, Black
By David Jones, CH, CBE
Located in Deddington, GB
Off white – Daler Rowney best quality cartridge paper.
Supplied with mount.
Size: H:50 cm x W:40 cm
David Jones, artist draws Matisse style life drawings. David Jones framed and un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
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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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist United Kingdom - 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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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Seated nude
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Frank Owen Dobson C.B.E. R.A. , was an English artist and sculptor. Dobson was born in London and his father was a commercial artist, bird and flower designs for greeting card co...
Category
Early 20th Century United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
11_5003IO97
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Emulsion with cotton and silver thread sewn on Splendorlux White Gloss paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Thread
Female #5 2014
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
An older work from the studio of London based artist Ant Pearce
Ink on paper.
Framed behind glass.
Image 16.5" x 11" Framed 26" x 20.5"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Cathexis #3 #1
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ink on paper, this intricate pen & ink work is reflective of the artists interest in the psychological state and the complex interactions within the human psyche.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Kneeling Nude, Study for The Maidens
Located in Maidenhead, GB
Bernard Fleetwood-Walker RA RWS (1893-1965)
Kneeling Nude, Study for The Maidens, c. 1932
Graphite, chalk and wash on paper
46.1 x 18.6 cm.; (within frame) 57.2 x 33.2 cm.
Provena...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Charcoal, Paper
Study for Fallen Angel III
By Daniel Barkley
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, signed and dated (lower right), 76cm x 56cm, (93cm x 69cm framed).
Daniel Barkley is known for his nude figurative work alluding to myths, legends and art history, whi...
Category
2010s Modern United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Six Soviet Gymnasts
By Patrick Procktor
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, felt tip pen, and pencil on paper, titled (lower left), 48cm x 37cm, (70cm x 58cm framed). It is in its original frame, although the glass and mount have been replaced.
Patrick Procktor was part of an influential group of British artists in the 1960s. His early paintings were dynamic, abstract depictions of the male nude, before he established himself as one of the leading watercolourists of his generation from the 1970s His work is held in many major public collections. This work is after the soviet painting...
Category
1960s Post-War United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Felt Pen, 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
...
Category
Mid-20th Century United Kingdom - 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...
Category
Mid-20th Century United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Eye catching Roger Hilton drawing of a Man and Woman, ink on paper, modern brit
By Roger Hilton
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A very eye catching and fun abstract of two nude figures by the Modern British artist Roger Hilton.
Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World War Britain. Often associated with the 'middle generation' of St Ives painters – Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon & Bryan Wynter...
Category
20th Century Modern United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Richard Slater RI (1927-2023) - Contemporary Watercolour, Contemplation
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful nude study by the British artist Richard Slater. In this bright and cheerful nude study Slater has used a layering technique to add texture ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cyril Fradan (1928-1997) - Framed 1955 Gouache, Tub Time
Located in Corsham, GB
A eye-catching study by Cyril Fradan, depicting a nude figure climbing into a beautiful freestanding bath. The scene has been painted in all shades o...
Category
Mid-20th Century United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Joyce Moore - Contemporary Pastel, Blue Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished female nude in blues and yellows. Unsigned. On watercolour paper.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Joyce Moore - Contemporary Pastel, Nude Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A nude study of a woman sat on a mattress with a humorous distortion of scale, the vase and trunk to the left of the composition matching the size of the woman herself. Unsigned. On ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Phil Richards
By Brian Stonehouse
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and gouache on paper, titled ‘Phil Richards’ and dated ‘Friday Dec 8 72’ (lower left), 64cm x 48cm (72cm x 56cm framed).(Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso)). the picture is framed behind UV glass
Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elizabeth Arden. He was also an accomplished portraitist. His work is celebrated in Brian Stonehouse...
Category
1970s Post-War United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Susan Paine - Contemporary Watercolour, Inside The Artist's Mind
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking look into the psyche of Susan Paine, this fragmented watercolour shows all the preoccupations of the artist throughout her life: animals, lovers, flowers, conflict, dancin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
20th Century United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Amanda
By William Russell Flint
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 16 x 22 inches
Framed size: 30 x 26 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
#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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
#2203B
Located in Deddington, GB
#2203B by David Jones [2022]
original
Black ink on paper
Image size: H:42.6 cm x W:29.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:42.6 cm x W:29.5 cm x D:0.1cm
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Category
2010s Minimalist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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...
Category
20th Century United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
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...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
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 United Kingdom - 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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Nude drawing
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Charcoal on paper
31.3 x 24.2 cm (12 ⅜ x 9 ½ inches)
Signed lower right, L.Rodo
This work of art is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed and dated by Lélia Pissarro.
Artist biography:
Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, born in Paris in 1878, was Camille Pissarro’s fourth son. Encouraged by his father, he began drawing from nature at an early age. He was familiarly known as “Rodo” and generally signed his works "Ludovic-Rodo", or early on in his career simply "Rodo".
The impact of Camille’s art and teaching on Rodo was considerable. His artistic production encompassed a wide range of media, including oil painting, tempera, watercolour, gouache, wood engraving, drawing and lithography. Rodo exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants over a forty-year period.
In 1894, at the age of sixteen, Rodo published his first wood engravings in the anarchist journal, Le Père Peinard. When Camille left France for the safety of Belgium during the anarchist upheavals of the same year, Rodo joined him there.
Rodo moved into his first studio in Montmartre with his brother Georges in 1898. Works of this early important period until just after the death of his father in 1903 were post-impressionist and clearly painted under the influence of his father.
By 1904 living in Paris, he found the nightlife and the habitués of the cafes, theatres, circuses and cabarets compelling subjects for his work and changed dramatically the style of his painting, affiliating himself to the Fauve artists. Rodo became close to artists such as Kees Van Dongen, Maurice de Vlaminck and Raoul Dufy. In 1905 he participated in the first Fauve exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1907 he visited Van Dongen in Rotterdam and the two artists continued to paint together, something they often did in Paris.
In 1914 he married, though he never had children. Later that year at the outbreak of the War Rodo moved to England. Over the next seven years he lived mainly in and around West London. He worked closely with his brother Lucien to establish in 1915 the Monarro Group, formed with the aim of exhibiting work by contemporary artists inspired by Impressionism. Many of the works produced by Rodo while he was in England were of London landmarks but, he was also interested in the urbanisation of West London. After 1921, when Rodo had already returned to France, he divided his time between Paris and Les Andelys in Normandy, living and working closely with his elder brother Georges Manzana.
Despite his rich artistic heritage and his achievements as an artist, Rodo is perhaps best remembered for his contribution to art history. For ten years he researched and compiled a catalogue of his father’s paintings...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil, Paper
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 - Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile-P...
Category
1930s United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
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 United Kingdom - 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 United Kingdom - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Graphite
