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Duchándome Nude, Series. Set of 4 Watercolors on archival paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Set of 4 by Celso Castro-Daza From the Duchándome Series Watercolor and ink on archival paper 1. Duchándome May 22nd 2. Duchándose, May 27th 3. Duchándome May 28th 4. Duchándose, May 27th Overall Size: 39 in. H x 27.5 in. W Individual size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W Unframed 2018 Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. ____________ 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...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

French Neo classical school, Allegory of Time, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Neo classical school, France, end of the 18th Century Allegory of Time, Pen and black ink on paper, gray ink wash 30.5 x 19 cm irregularly shaped In g...
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1790s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink

The Boy at the Sea - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
The boy at the sea is a drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fresh and be...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

'Seated Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950. A graphite study of a young woman shown nude and seated in an armchair. Winner of...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite, Paper

Female Nude - Contemporary Figurative Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you. Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA.)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preparatory drawing for Figure Composition, Carmel (CA) Graphite on paper, 1931 Signed with the artist's initial "W" lower right corner (see photo)...
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1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

1950s "Looking Up" Mid Century Figurative Ink New York Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Looking Up" c. 1950s Ink on paper 14" x 16.5" unframed Unsigned Came from artist estate Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey Studied: Newar...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Zittend Naakt (Seated Nude) /// Figurative Girl Lady Pencil Drawing Woman Art
By Hendrik Paulides
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Hendrik Paulides (Dutch, 1892-1967) Title: "Zittend Naakt (Seated Nude)" *Monogram signed and dated by Paulides in pencil lower left Year: 1958 Medium: Original Graphite Pencil Drawing on cream wove paper Framing: Recently exquisitely framed in a heavy gold Art Deco moulding...
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1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Graphite

Little witches 1
Located in Genève, GE
Erotic scene Wooden frame with glass pane 49.5 x 41.5 x 1.3 cm
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1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

The Boy at the Sea - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
The boy at the sea is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist represents the f...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Modern Abstract Black Ink Line Drawing of a Reclining Female Nude
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract black ink line drawing of a reclining female nude. The work features a loose rendering of a single woman laying on her left hip and looking off in the distance. Signed and dated in front lower right corner. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: Frank...
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1980s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Venus - Original Pencil Drawing Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Venus is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first years of the Twentieth Century. Pencil on paper. Cardboard passepartout included (cm 49 x 34). Very good conditions. The artwork represents a standing Venus figure realized in pencil. The artists uses chiaroscuro to define the volumes of the statue. The lit parts of the statue are realized with a white pencil. The artwork reproduces an ancient classical female sculpture on a base. The artwork is an academic study to represent the female anatomy...
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Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Nude Female Figures (Nude Women Study)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Martin Friedman (1896-1981). Two Nude Figures, ca. 1960. Charcoal on paper, image measures 17 x 22.5 inches; 24 x 30 in original custom chestnut frame ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Seated Nude with Mirror /// Figurative Chair Lady Woman Byron Browne Drawing Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Byron Browne (American, 1907-1961) Title: "Seated Nude with Mirror" *Signed and dated by Browne in pencil lower right Year: 1957 Medium: Original Graphite Pencil Drawing on u...
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1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Graphite

Lonely Erection
Located in New York, NY
Nate Lowman Lonely Erection, 2010 Ink on vellum 14 x 10 7/10 inches (sheet) 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (frame) Signed and dated recto
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Vellum, Ink

Sleeping Woman - Watercolor Drawing by Domenico Cantatore - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Woman is an original modern artwork realized by Domenico Cantatore in the mid-20th Century. Watercolor drawing of brown paper. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes f...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931) Nude, presumed portrait of Lina Cavalieri
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Giovanni BOLDINI (Ferrara 1842 - Paris 1931) Nude from behind, presumed portrait of Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944) Paper graphite, H. 280 mm; L. 255 mm. Signed lower right, dated 1901 P...
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Early 1900s Italian School Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

The Boy at the Sea - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
The boy at the sea is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fresh an...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

Thai Beauty - Seated Female Nude
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Sanguine on paper. Signed and dated upper left. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist at his home in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1969.
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1960s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Chalk

In My Garden (2022), figurative nude woman, glasses, figure drawing, sketch
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"In My Garden" (2022) by Rebecca N. Johnson Pastel and gel ink on rice paper Pink, yellow, purple, magenta, yellow, green color palette Female figure, nude portrait of seated woman ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Ink, Rice Paper

Untitled Nude (Double sided ink drawing with colored chalk)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Female Nude (Double-sided drawing) Recto: Reclining Nude Verso: Seated Nude Signed in pencil lower right, recto (see photo) Pen and ink with colored chalk, c. 1925 Condition: Repaire...
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1920s French School Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Reclining Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude Charcoal on paper, c. 1933 Signed lower right (see photo) Provenance: Weyhe Gallery, New York (Ganso's dealer 1925-1941) Joseph Mark Erdelac, Cleveland, noted collector who had a large collection of Ganso works Ganso was born in Germany in 1895. At age 14, he apprenticed to a baker and then worked his way to America when he was 17. He worked in bakeries in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati and Akron, Ohio. By 1916, Ganso out of a job, and was living the life of a bohemian in New York City, sometimes on less than 30 cents a week.1 In 1921, Ganso painted a realistic nude on a bedsheet, and was forced by the police to remove it from an exhibition. The bedsheet with the painting was later stolen. He soon had a job baking again at $140 a month, and with time to spare for painting and study. Ganso quit baking in 1925 when a New York dealer gave him financial backing of $50 a week. Ganso prospered from his art after that. His work is in over 15 American museums, and the Print Club of Cleveland awarded him a $500 purchase prize for a wood engraving. A versatile artist, he painted a variety of subjects. (from a profile written by Clyde Singer...
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1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

'Ballerina in Repose #2, ' by James Cobb, Charcoal and Conte Drawing, 2021
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 13.5" x 13.5" charcoal and conte drawing by artist James Cobb captures a ballerina in a seated, relaxed pose. The work is on toned gray drawing...
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2010s Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Conté, Charcoal

Nude Show Girl Buttocks Pondered by Show Horse - Sexy Cartoon Mad Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
This sexy joke cartoon with thought balloons and some bathroom humor was done by the brilliant humorist cartoonist for Mad Magazine, Al Jaffee. The joke's...
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1960s Conceptual Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Gouache

The Boy at the Mirror - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
The boy at the mirror is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist represents the figu...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

2003 Charcoal Drawing - Nude Study
Located in Corsham, GB
Depicting a nude female model leaning down to touch her ankle, highlighting her arched back and elongated legs. Signed illegibly and dated to the lower right. Well presented in a gil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Nude - Drawing by Marthe Delacroix - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Watercolor

Naked back
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 44.5 x 25.5 x 1.5 cm
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Mid-20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache

Women - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Women is an Original drawing in China Ink and water color realized by Lucien Coutaud in Mid-20th Century. Stamp Signed. Good conditions. The delicate and dynamic strokes created i...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

The Roman Bath
Located in London, GB
'The Roman Bath', pencil on art paper (circa 1960s), School of Rome. Three broad-shouldered men make their way through the sultry corridors of the Hammam in...
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1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

The Boy on the Motorcycle - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
The boy on the motorcycle is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The man is depicted ...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Man Lying - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Man lying is an original drawing in pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. In the fo...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

Lying Nude Woman - Original Pencil Drawing by Paul Véra - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lying Nude woman is a beautiful original drawing in brown pencil on paper, realized by the French artist Paul Véra (Paris, 1882 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1957)...
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Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Color Pencil

Futurist, Novecento Italiano, Mid Century Italian Painting, Figures at the Baths
Located in Cotignac, FR
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...
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Mid-20th Century Futurist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon, Pastel, Pencil, Paper

Modern Mid-Century Odalisque, Reclining Female Nude.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid 20th century modern work on paper of a female nude by Andre Petroff. Signed with monogram bottom right, presented under glass in plain red painted ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Crayon, Charcoal, Paper, Watercolor

Chinese Erotic Album Leaf, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...
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Mid-19th Century Qing Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Paper

The Return of Bella Cuculi - Mixed Media by Pablo Echarruen - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Return of Bella Cuculi is an original contemporary artwork realized by Pablo Echarruen in 1974. Hand Signed and dated on lower right. Titled on the lower left. China, watercol...
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1970s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Naked Woman on the Rocks - Drawing by G. Lallich - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Naked Woman on the Rocks is an original modern artwork realized by Giuseppe Lallich (1867-1953) in the early 20th Century. Mixed colored watercolor. Hand-Signed by the artist Inc...
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Early 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Women nude drawing
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper White wooden frame with glass pane 76,5 x 56,5 x 3 cm
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen, Pencil

Pity June 4th. Nude watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Pity, June 4th by Celso Castro From the Duchándome Series Watercolor, ink, and pastel archival paper. Image size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W 2018 ____________ 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...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

The Boy at the Sea - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
The boy at the sea is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The boy is depicted with a ...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait of a Boy - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing in pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. In the foreground the boy is de...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Female Figures - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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1940s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paste

Charles Richards (New Orleans) "Crouching Woman"
Located in New Orleans, LA
A truly lovely nude by noted 20th-century New Orleans artist and extraordinary draftsman Charles Richards, whose work does not come up for sale often enough here in New Orleans. Sorr...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Graphite

Side View Seated Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Side View Seated Female Nude Graphite on paper, c. 1890's Unsigned Provenance: Rookwood Pottery Factory Collection, Cincinnati Spanierman Gallery, New York (label) Drawings from the sketchbook are in the collections of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, New York and the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Condition: Excellent Sheet size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches Frame size: 16 x 12 1/2 inches Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) Born in Covington, Kentucky, Frank Duveneck had the birth name of Frank Decker. He became a well-trained academic painter whose work ranged from single figures in interiors to plein air canvases of figures in landscape and often included the depiction of low-life persons. His styles included Realism, Social Realism, and Impressionism, and his work was ever influenced by the dark tones and vigorous brush-strokes of the Munich style, which he learned at the Munich Academy in the 1870s. Art historian Matthew Baigell described Duveneck's mature style as having "loose highlights brushed over ruggedly blocked-out forms emerging from a richly suggestive chiaroscuro." He apprenticed to a church decorator, Wilhelm Lamprecht, in Cincinnati, and worked in Catholic Churches in Covington, Cincinnati, Latrobe, Pennsylvania and Quebec, Canada. At age 22, entered the Royal Academy of Munich where he intended to further his interest in church decoration but instead veered to fine-art painting on canvas. One of his most influential teachers was realist Wilhelm von Diez, and Duveneck, also impressed by the realism of French painter Gustave Courbet, became known for adopting this revolutionary approach with rich brushwork. In Munich, Duveneck shared a studio with William Merritt Chase. Returning to Cincinnati, he painted portraits and decorated churches and also taught art classes. At first he did not gain much attention, but an exhibition in Boston in 1875 gained him good attention. In 1875, he went back to Europe and opened an art school in Munich and also in Poling in Bavaria, and many Americans who became known as "Duveneck's Boys," studied with him. Several years later, he opened his school in Italy where he spent the winters in Florence and the summers in Venice. In 1879, he and his followers went to Venice where he began etching and briefly shared a studio with James Whistler in order to learn from him. He also did sculpture. During this period, his painting changed drastically from dark interiors with heavy, impasto paint to outdoor, plein air painting in much lighter colors giving the appearance of sunlight. Among his students was the future Impressionist painter John Henry Twachtmann, and also Elizabeth Boott, whom he married in 1886 and who died two years later. In 1888, he returned to Cincinnati where from 1900 he taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy. He spent the summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts painting...
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1890s American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Smiling Boy - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Smiling boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The boy isdepicted with a delicate ...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Chinese Erotic Album Leaf, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...
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Mid-19th Century Qing Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Standing Nude in Profile - Pencil Drawing Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude in Profile is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first years of the XX century. Pencil on paper. Passepartout included. Good conditions except fo...
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Early 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Chinese Erotic Album Leaf, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...
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Mid-19th Century Qing Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Brothers - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Brothers 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. In t...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Two Friends Walking on the Beach - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Two friends walking on the beach is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the ...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Boy Lying Down - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boy lying down is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. I...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait of a Boy - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil and pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. In the foreground th...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Leda and the Swan
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 51 x 60 x 1.5 cm
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1960s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Nude Reading by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO -Figurative work on paper, School of Paris
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Nude Reading by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) Black and colour pencil on paper 3...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Color Pencil, Paper

From the Duchándome Nude, Series. Set of 12 Watercolors & Ink on archival paper
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...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Ink, Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Three Nudes - Original Red Pen on Paper by Unknown French Artist Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 10.5 x 15 cm. Three Nudes is an original artwork realized by a French artist. Original red pen on paper. Passepartout included (cm 25.5 x 33). Very good cond...
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Early 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen

Portrait of a Boy - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. In the foreground the boy is...
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1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

Shop Nude Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

The human body has long been a favorite subject for artists throughout history. Nude drawings and watercolor paintings reveal the human figure but also the social ideals, traditions and cultural beliefs around people and bodies at the time they were created.

Nude drawings and watercolors offer a unique way to illustrate the human body. Drawings in pencil or ink can quickly capture movement or poses while watercolor is more expressive of a moment. Different cultures utilize the same materials differently, and each piece provides a singular glimpse into the perspectives and expectations around people’s bodies.

Artists like Francisco Goya, Gustav Klimt and Lucian Freud — who painted his friends, his lovers and his children — found acclaim and success by creatively depicting the human body. More recently, as contemporary artists have followed the figurative muse, many painters are exploring the nude as a subject for their drawings and works in watercolors.

If you’re thinking about bringing this kind of work into your space, there are many ways to consider how to arrange wall art in your living room or elsewhere in your home. Creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design vision together. It allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests.

On 1stDibs, find a collection of nude drawings and watercolor paintings for diverse views and attitudes toward the human form through a range of cultures and times.

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