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Nude Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Style: Post-Modern
Style: Old Masters
Four Nudes
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) remains one of the best-known and most intriguing artists from the "Painters Eleven" group. Town's reputation was established in the late 1950s with a serie...
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1980s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

French School, Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 60cm x 42cm, (74cm x 60cm framed). The picture is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass. Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academ...
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19th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Carbon Pencil

Nude Couple, Pastel Drawing Signed Erik Miran 1976
Located in Pasadena, CA
A naked couple is depicted in a pastel on framed paper. The drawing seems to be a studio study signed Erik Miran and dated 1976 . The couple is characteristic of modern painting in...
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1970s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel

18th Century Italian Old Master Drawing Nude Figure Sketches Male & Female
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Sketches Italian School, mid 18th century circle of Pompeo Batoni (1707-1787) charcoal and pencil, heightened with white chalk, unframed...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Charcoal, Chalk

Astraea, a study for the Golden Age fresco at Dampierre by Ingres
Located in PARIS, FR
This beautiful drawing, of great technical virtuosity, is one of the many studies made by Ingres for Astraea, one of the key characters in the Golden Age fresco he painted between 18...
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1840s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen, Pencil, Carbon Pencil

Erotic French painter - 19th century figure drawings - Nudes - Ink on paper
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (19th century) - Four erotic scenes. 17 x 24 cm without frames, 21.5 x 28.5 cm with frames. Antique ink drawings on paper, in wood...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper

Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)  A Mythological scene, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)  A Mythological scene Pen and black ink on paper Bears an old inscription with the name of the artist on the lower left bo...
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1770s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

four drawings colored inks nude
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pedro Pruna Ocerans (1904-1977) - Four drawings - Ink drawing Four framed drawings, ane of them signed and dated. Frame measures 26x29 cm. Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, ​​1904-1977...
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1940s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Bacchantes. Paper, watercolor, 47x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Bacchantes. Paper, watercolor, 47x65 cm "Bacchantes" is a watercolor artwork that portrays colorful women figures. The medium used is paper, and the dimensions of the artwork are 47...
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1970s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Dances. Paper, watercolor, 59x83.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dances. Paper, watercolor, 59x83.5 cm "Dances" is a watercolor artwork that portrays colorful figures dancing in nature. The medium used is paper, and the dimensions of the artwork ...
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1970s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

French School, Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Pencil on paper, dated (lower right), 55cm x 44cm (76cm x 64cm framed) Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academic art training in Europe from the 16th century onwar...
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1850s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Carbon Pencil, Paper

Dances. 1971. Paper/watercolor. 56x76 cm
Located in Riga, LV
"Dances" is a watercolor artwork from 1971 that portrays orange figures dancing in nature. The medium used is paper, and the dimensions of the artwork are 56x76 cm. The use of vibran...
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1970s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

two drawings colored inks nude
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pedro Pruna Ocerans (1904-1977) - Two drawings - Ink drawing Two framed drawings, all of them signed and dated. Frame measures 23x28 cm. Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, ​​1904-1977) ...
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1940s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Disegno figurativo fregio china su carta ripreso dall'antico, XIX secolo.
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, china su carta, rientra negli studi all'antico molto diffusi nelle Accademie dal XVIII secolo in poi, e rimanda al fregio di un sarcofago antico. Al centro si trova un cl...
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19th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Paper

Female nude charcoal drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell (1932-2001) - Female Nude - Charcoal drawing Signed lower right Drawing measures 33x38 cm. Frame measures 44x50 cm. Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell Year of...
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1990s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Classical Roman Nude Man draped in Robes, signed French drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Roman Man French artist, 19th century pencil drawing on paper, unframed 13 x 11 inches private collection, France the painting is in overall good and sound condition - very frag...
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19th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Study of a Fate at mid-body, a red chalk attributed to Giovanni da San Giovanni
Located in PARIS, FR
This spectacular red chalk drawing depicts an elderly woman, her eyes bulging, her hand stretched out towards the sky. This disturbing character, who seems close to dementia, and the elongation of her arm with its Mannerist overtones, plunge us into the Florentine artistic milieu of the first half of the 17th century. The proximity of this drawing to some characters in the fresco in the Pitti Palace representing The Muses, Poets and Philosophers chased from Parnassus, the last masterpiece of Giovanni da San Giovanni, leads us to propose an attribution to this artist and a dating of around 1635-1636. 1. Giovanni da San Giovanni, the painter of contradiction We take here the title of the monography dedicated to the artist by Anna Banti in 1977, which remains the reference book for this artist. The son of a notary, Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni, abandoned his studies to go to Florence at the age of sixteen, where he entered the studio of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) around 1609 and enrolled in the Academy of Drawing Arts in 1612. Around 1615 he produced his first known works, mainly frescoes for the city's tabernacles. He became famous in Florence for his originality, combining an obsessive application to the study of drawing and the reading of poetry and history with a disheveled appearance. Between 1619 and 1620 he decorated the facade of the Antella Palace in Piazza Santa Croce, a decoration that still partly survives today. The death of Cosimo II in 1621 put an end to the Florentine building activity and Giovanni da San Giovanni left for Rome to find other sponsors with the painter Francesco Furini...
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17th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Three drawings by François Boucher in a mounting by Jean-Baptiste Glomy
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Juliette Parmentier-Courreau of the Custodia Foundation for her welcome and support during the consultation of Glomy’s Journal des Ouvrages. This spectacularly large "feuille de desseins ajustés" commissioned by François Boucher from Jean-Baptiste Glomy is emblematic of the painter's art and mastery of rocaille. It is also fully representative of the taste of this period in the field of decorative arts. The largest of these three drawings, placed at the bottom of the composition, is particularly interesting: dating from around 1756, it constitutes a modello (apparently unpublished) for the frontispiece of the "Catalogue des tableaux de Monsieur de Julienne"), preserved in the Morgan Library in New York. 1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre. As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him. On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale tapestry...
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1750s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Ink

three drawings colored inks horse nude
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pedro Pruna Ocerans (1904-1977) - Three drawings - Ink drawing Three framed drawings, one of them signed and dated. Frame measures 20x26 cm. Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, ​​1904-1977) was a Catalan figurative painter and illustrator. In 1920, at just 17 years old and with hardly any academic training, he traveled to Paris. Sebastián Sunyer provided her with a letter to introduce herself to Pablo Picasso, who was back to order in his classicist period, a style that Pruna would adopt from then on. Under Picasso's protection, he very soon entered the intellectual and artistic circles of the Parisian avant-garde. In 1924 he exhibited with Apel·les Fenosa at the Percier gallery, prefacing the Max Jacob...
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1940s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Traditional Japanese Scene, Geisha Nude, Ukiyo-e Style, Mixed Media Marbling
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a handmade cyanotype print inspired by Hashiguchi Goyo's 1915 print "Woman After a Bath." This image of a Japanese traditional Ukiyo-e print is then hand coated using the sum...
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2010s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Emulsion, Ink, Sumi Ink, Watercolor, C Print, Color, Engraving, Other Me...

Nude. Paper/ watercolor. 75x56 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Nude. Paper/ watercolor. 75x56 cm Malda Muizule Malda Muižule was born in 1937 in the family of a blacksmith. Graduated from Liepāja Applied Arts High School (1...
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

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)....
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1990s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Female nude charcoal drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 60x42 cm. Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell Year of birth: 1932 Biography: Member of a family spanish saga of artists, which highlighted Joaquim Vayreda, founder of the so-cal...
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1990s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

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

Sleeping Boy - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Boy is an original modern artwork realized in the 16th century by Giovanni Fontana. Ivory colored sheet attached on an ivory colored cardboard (...
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16th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

A Musical Party
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...
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16th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

The Martyrdom of the Santi Quattro Coronati
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, UK After initial training under Justus Suttermans and Vincenzo Dandini, in 1673 Anton Domenico Gabbiani embar...
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17th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Chalk, Ink, Pen

Reclining Youth, 18th Century Nude Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
French School 18th Century Reclining Youth Graphite and charcoal on paper Image size: 15 x 23 inches (38 x 58.5 cm) Wash line mount and gilt frame Painting in eighteenth-century Fra...
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18th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite, Charcoal

Study in the Antique Style, a neoclassical drawing by Augustin Pajou
Located in PARIS, FR
In this lively and fresh drawing, probably taken from one of the artist's notebooks, Pajou presents us with a composition freely inspired by antiquity, as a souvenir of a visit to th...
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1750s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) A Mythological scene, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)  A biblical or mythological episode Signed and dated lower right (under the mount, see photos of the drawing out of frame) ...
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1770s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Study after Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment”
By Michelangelo Buonarroti
Located in New York, NY
Italian School, 16th Century Provenance: Private Collection, New York This intriguing drawing is a study by an anonymous 16th-century Italian artist after a vignette in Michelangelo’s fresco of The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. The altar wall of the Sistine Chapel was already richly decorated when Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint his Last Judgment...
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16th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Gawkers, Original 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 ...
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1980s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

"Queenie, " Keith Hamilton, mixed media, contemporary art, nude
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Much of Keith Hamilton's work is a comment on human perception: how our mind tries to recognize patterns and make sense of a complex world. Because context greatly influences how we ...
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2010s Post-Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

Apollo and the Muses, a Renaissance drawing attributed to Girolamo da Carpi
Located in PARIS, FR
This subtle drawing from the Roman Renaissance presents Apollo accompanied by three Muses. It is based on a sarcophagus depicting the nine Muses framed by Minerva and Apollo, which is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Girolamo de Carpi repeatedly drew figures from this sarcophagus during his stay in Rome between 1549 and 1553. Despite this common source of inspiration, the more delicate execution of our drawing and the similarities with a painting by the artist depicting Apollo or Poetry made around 1532-1534 (9th photo in the Gallery) suggest the same period of production for our drawing. 1. Girolamo de Carpi, a life between Ferrara and Rome at the service of the Este family Our knowledge of Girolamo de Carpi's life is largely based upon the second edition of the Lives of the Artists published in 1568 by Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 1574), became a close friend of his around 1550. Girolamo de Carpi was born in 1501 in Ferrara where his father was also a painter. After an apprenticeship shared between his father's workshop and that of Garofalo, Girolamo began his career in Bologna, where he settled in 1525, working on the frescoes in the sacristy of San Michele in Bosco alongside Biagio Pupini. He was then influenced by Parmigianino, whom he had met in Bologna or during a brief stay in Rome before moving to Bologna. From 1530 onwards, Girolamo de Carpi settled in Ferrara, probably making a further stay in Rome in 1531. He also began to work for the d'Este family, first in Belriguardo, where he took part in the decoration of the Sala della Vigna, then in the Palazetto della Montagna di San Giorgio (of which he may have been the architect), which he also decorated with frescoes, and finally in Copparo. A true Renaissance court artist, Girolamo also executed easel paintings, ephemeral decorations and tapestry cartoons for his clients. Cardinal Hippolyte d'Este, who, since the early 1540s, had been one of his main clients within this powerful family, called him to Rome to design the layout of his Quirinal garden. Girolamo remained in Rome for four years, also working as an architect at the Belvedere for Pope Julius III, before returning to Ferrara in 1553. His last work as an architect was the reconstruction of the ducal palace in Ferrara, which was partly destroyed by fire in 1554. 2. Description of the artwork and some related artworks This double-sided drawing depicts four figures inspired by antique statuary: Apollo accompanied by a griffin with the Muse Calliope on his right, and the Muses Melpomene and Polymnia on the reverse. The drawing of each figure, made of fine hatchings, is particularly delicate and evokes the refined art of Parmigianino, who inspired Girolamo de Carpi in his early days. The figure of Apollo...
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16th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Study of Nude Man, a red chalk study by Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728 - 1781)
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Marco Riccòmini for his help in preparing this note and in particular for pointing out the existence of the drawing in the Musei Civici of Reggio Emilia. The ...
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1760s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

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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.

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