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Item Ships From: USA
Nude Study XXXI
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald is an artist of unusual depth and complexity. Sculpture has become his primary means of expression, yet this ability was built upon the foundation of a rigorous tra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
French Pen & Ink - Artist's Muse
By Jean-Baptiste Grancher
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white pen & ink drawing of a nude female model posing for an artist by French artist Jean Baptiste Grancher, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat...
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1950s USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Untitled
2019
Signed and dated
Double-sided drawing in charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
30.25 x 20.5 inches
$1,600
This work is offered by CLAMP in Ne...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Light and Shape
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald is an artist of unusual depth and complexity. Sculpture has become his primary means of expression, yet this ability was built upon the foundation of a rigorous tra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
Balenciaga Fall, Proenza Schouler and Vetements fall, Triptych
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Bul IlI - expressive line drawing
By Dmitrii Drugakov
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Bull III- expressive line drawing on 140lb paper. Part of the triptych. The work size is 12x8 inches framed (black) with a styrene face on a double mat board in grey-beige or white-b...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Wax Crayon, Rag Paper
Norman Gorbaty Pastel Figure Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Norman Gorbaty (1932-2020)
Untitled, 1996
Pastel on paper
19 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.
Framed: 32 1/2 x 40 x 1 in.
Signed and dated lower right
After graduating from Amherst College, Gorbaty...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
'Erika in Gesture II, ' by James Cobb, Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 21" x 19" academic drawing by artist James Cobb, 'Erika in Gesture II,' captures a female model in a standing pose. Facing away from the viewer...
Category
2010s Academic USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Graphite
Nude
By A. Delamaire
Located in Houston, TX
Classic nude charcoal sketch of back of figure laying on side by French artist A. Delamaire, circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on ...
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1930s USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Art Deco Prancing Horse with Female Nude
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Miami, FL
Famed Art Deco Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski depicts his signature "Stallion." in this stunningly elegant drawing. It features a nude female that is c...
Category
1930s Art Deco USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Female Sexual Nude
By Gaston Lachaise
Located in Miami, FL
Sotheby's New York . work is elegantly matted and framed with the Sotheby's sticker on verso
Category
1920s Art Deco USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Divertimento I (Picasso)
By Conger A. Metcalf
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Divertimento I (Picasso)
Graphite, color wash and oil paint on coated glossy paper, c. 1940
Signed C. Metcalf lower left (see photo)
Inscribed Matisse, Picasso, C. Metcalf lower left...
Category
1940s American Modern USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Jose Antonio Aranaz Drawing, Nude Female Figure
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Jose Antonio Aranaz (Venezuelan, 1948-2013)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1972
Materials: charcoal on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 20"h, 13.75"w; 22.75"h, ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of I...
Category
1960s Renaissance USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Duchándome May 28th. Watercolor and ink on paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchándome May 28th, by Celso Castro-Daza
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor and ink on paper
Image size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Playboy cartoon Illustration, "For Posing, My Terms Are a Dollar an Hour, Room
By Richard Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Put aside Richard Taylor's dry wit. Look at his masterfully rendered figures and brilliantly constructed compositions based on a two-point perspective. Clearly, he is an underrated and overlooked talent in the class of Charles Addams. Above all, Taylor, with his heavely-lidded-eyed figure, has a style of his own. An artist who has an instantly recognized style - unique to him/her is a rarity in today's artworld of derivative artists.
"For Posing, My Terms Are a Dollar an Hour, Room, and Board", Playboy cartoon illustration...
Category
1960s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Male and Female Nudes on a Sofa /// Philip Pearlstein Pencil Drawing Figurative
By Philip Pearlstein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-2022)
Title: "Male and Female Nudes on a Sofa"
*Signed and dated by Pearlstein in pencil lower left
Year: 1970
Medium: Original Graphite Pen...
Category
1970s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Graphite, Board, Illustration Board
Sea Battle - (Stories from the Edda)
By Arthur Rackham
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, "A Rackham" lower right
Sotheby's New York
Housed in an elegant , hi-end frame with museum glass.
Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators fr...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
George Dureau (New Orleans) "Young Man in Hat" - Framed Portrait Drawing
By George Dureau
Located in New Orleans, LA
George Dureau is an icon in the history of New Orleans art. He was friends with Robert Mapplethorpe, and influenced Mapplethorpe's work greatly. Dureau often drew or photographed dwa...
Category
Late 20th Century USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Multi-Figural Study (Bacchanal)
Located in New York, NY
This James Childs artwork is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite
Reclining Nude Woman Covering Her Face
By Emile Lejeune
Located in Houston, TX
Reclining nude woman covering her face from the viewer. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed.
Many others are available. Ple...
Category
1950s Naturalistic USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Est...
Category
1960s Renaissance USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
"The Artists Wife" Realistic Nude Woman in Conté on Paper by Garth Benton
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Artists Wife" Realistic Nude Woman in Conté on Paper by Garth Benton
Detailed nude drawing by Paul "Garth" Garfield Benton (American, 1940-2012). Po...
Category
1980s American Impressionist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Aeron's Gift
Located in Columbia, MO
Aeron’s Gift
Oil on panel
24 x 18 inches
Framed: 32.5 x 26.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Comme des Garcons and Louis XV Tries on Shoes, Diptych. From The Fashion Series
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate o...
Category
1960s Renaissance USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Resting Man (Man relaxes draped only in a small towel) - In Celebration of Pride
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
A rare pencil drawing by John Lear created in 1937, signed and dated in pencil.
John Brock Lear...
Category
1930s Academic USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Wax Crayon, Rag Paper
Japanese Shunga, Sitting Woman
Located in New Orleans, LA
A beautiful example of the Japanese art form known as shunga, this sensual work depicts woman exploring her sexuality. Hand-painted on paper with splashes of vivid gouache color, the...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Gouache
Shower
Located in Columbus, OH
"Shower" is an original oil pastel, ink and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald S...
Category
1980s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache, Ink
On Top of the World figurative, green colorful spiritual
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance
and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
Category
2010s Expressionist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Homenaje de Camilla Claudel 2, Conte Crayon and Pencil on Alcantara
By Roberto Estopiñan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Estopiñan, Cuban (1921 - 2015)
Title: Homenaje de Camilla Claudel 2
Year: 1992
Medium: Conte Crayon and Pencil Drawing on Alcantara h...
Category
1990s Art Deco USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Handmade Paper, Pencil
The Dynamic Center, colorful, goddess with abstract elements, red, blue, yellow
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
This piece is very much about the energy of the body and breath. We are just rediscovering the power of the breath to increase energy and gen...
Category
2010s Expressionist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
French Ink Drawing - Couleur Nude
By Kei Mitsuuchi
Located in Houston, TX
French ink sketch of a nude female figure standing and stretching in a bright orange hue by French-Japanese artist Kei Mitsuuchi (1948-2001), circa 19...
Category
1990s USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
German Expressionist Drawing, Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Cuba Scene 1910
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist
Subject: Woman, Cuban Scene
Medium: watercolor paint, ink or pencil
Surface: Paper
This is hand signed lower right.
There is an inscription at bottom e...
Category
1910s Expressionist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: E...
Category
1960s Renaissance USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
"Lounging Nude Woman" Charcoal Drawing
Located in Austin, TX
Charcoal drawing of a lounging nude woman by Miles Mathis.
18 x 24 inches
About the Artist:
Miles Mathis is an American artist known for his nude portrai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Ink and gouache drawing of a nude woman from behind
By John Begg, 1903
Located in Brookville, NY
A nude viewed from behind, with black hair , inscribed on the lower right by the artist John Begg "Mature Nude" c.1953 Outlined in black ink and with som...
Category
1950s American Modern USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Drawing - Love and the Minotaur by Cuban Artist Jesus Nodarse
By Jesus Nodarse
Located in Brooklyn, NY
For the Love and the Minotaur.
Figurative Pencil Drawing on archival paper. Cuban Artist Jesus Nodarse
11 x 8 inches unframed
THE MAN: Jesús Nodarse Valdés was born in Sagua la ...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil
Study for “L’Acropole”
By Paul Delvaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul Delvaux
1897-1994 Belgian
Study for “L’Acropole”
Signed and dated "P.Delvaux 1965" (lower right)
Watercolor, pen and ink on paper
This preliminary drawing for Paul Delvaux’s greatest masterpiece L’Acropole, which resides today in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, features the artist’s most beloved subject — mystical scenes of nude women. A centrally-placed, stoic woman draped in a long green gown stands with her arms outstretched by her sides. She gazes at another idealized woman in the foreground, lying nude on a chaise lounge, while behind her, multitudes of other women in white dresses undertake a long procession towards a distant door. The captivating scene exudes the unique Surrealist style for which the artist has become known.
With this skillful rendering of the surreal setting, Delvaux has mastered depicting nude women in a sensual yet non-erotic manner. The artist drew inspiration from a variety of sources, including the futuristic writings of Jules Verne and the mythos of Homer, and blended them with his subconscious themes, which frequently included the nude female form. In combination with the loose concepts of form and perspective found in the 16th-century Mannerist paintings that Delvaux studied in Italy before World War II, his distinctive style served to create memorable dreamscapes without veering into lewdness. Like the very best Surrealist images, the work is both innovative and engaging.
Paul Delvaux's earliest and most lasting influences in his art were the futuristic writings of Jules Verne and the mythos of Homer. After completing his initial artistic training at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Delvaux exhibited with Surrealists Dalí...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Norman Gorbaty Cubist Woman Pastel Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Norman Gorbaty (1932-2020)
Untitled, c. 1996
Pastel on paper
Framed: 39 1/4 x 30 x 1 in.
Signed and dated lower right
After graduating from Amherst College, Gorbaty was the recipien...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Seated Nude
By August F. Biehle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seated Nude
Match Stick ink drawing, c. 1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: A. Biehle
Created at the Kakoon Arts Club, Cleveland. Influenced by friend and fellow artist...
Category
1920s American Modern USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Reclining Woman I, Impressionist Watercolor and Gouache by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Reclining Woman I, Year: 1980, Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 22.5 x 30 in. (57.15 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1980s Impressionist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Arm
By Frantisek Kupka
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on paper
13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.2 cm.)
Signed (at lower right): Kupka
EX COLL.: private collection, St. Louis; to Howard Baer, 1972; [Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Galleries,
New York...
Category
20th Century USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Artist and Nude Model - XVI, Modern Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - XVI, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: ...
Category
1970s Modern USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: E...
Category
1960s Renaissance USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate o...
Category
1960s Renaissance USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Atlas Cornice Drawings 1 — Vienna Secessionist
By Heinrich Brad Schmidt
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Heinrich Brad Schmidt, two early 20th-century German Secessionist, male nude cornice drawings. Graphite on pale blue/grey wove drawing paper, spot ...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Gawkers, Original Conte Crayon and Watercolor Illustration by Bill Ward
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bill Ward, American (1919 - 1998)
Title: Gawkers
Year: circa 1981
Medium: Graphite and Watercolor on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 23 in. x 17 in. (58.42 ...
Category
1980s Post-Modern USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
'Bacchanal', Mid-century Pompeii, Roman Mythology, Bacchus, Neo-classical
By Giovanni Gallo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gallo Giovanni' for Giovanni Gallo (Italian, 20th century) and dated 1954.
Titled lower left, 'Eseguito a Pompei, 'Trionfo di Bacco'' (Done in Pompeii, 'Triumph of Bacchus...
Category
1950s USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Standing Figure, figural abstract expressionist ink drawing, 20th century
By Joseph Glasco
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Figure
1955
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower center
9 x 12 inches
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma and grew up in Texas. In 1...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude Female Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Dynamic study of nude female figures, 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archi...
Category
1950s USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: E...
Category
1960s Renaissance USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
From the Duchándome Nude, Series. Set of 12 Watercolors & Ink on archival paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchando me series by Celso José Castro - Daza
1. Duchándome May 22nd
2. Duchándose, May 27th
3. Duchándome May 28th
4. Duchándose, May 27th
5. Duchándome, June 5th
6. Pensando & recordando a Luis...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Water Sports - Nude Swimmers and Bathers at Coney Island
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Miami, FL
Historically, academic artists have always featured the central figures in their composition in a prominent light with the background figures being darker. In water sports...
Category
1940s Realist USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Est...
Category
1960s Renaissance USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
A Musical Party
By German School
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Dr. George Hamilton, Massachusetts; and by descent.
Private Collection, Ohio, until 2021.
Exhibited:
(Possibly) Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts (according to a handwritten inscription on the reverse).
This drawing by an anonymous, 16th-century German hand presents a delightful scene of nymphs—mostly nude but some draped with cloth—making music in an outdoor setting. The composition is executed within a roundel and centers on the harpsichord played by the figure seen from behind. She is accompanied by a host of other instruments, including horns, a harp, and a lira da gamba played by figures gathered nearby, several of which are positioned along the curved edges of the visual field. Two satyrs observe the merrymaking—one leans on the harpsichord while the other holds aloft a cup, presumably of wine, adding a bacchic element to the revelry.
The drawing was previously owned by Dr. George Hamilton, scholar of modern art and Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (1966–1977). Hamilton played...
Category
16th Century Old Masters USA - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
