Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Abstract
"Woman sleeping on couch"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This painting dedicated to "Women" series is a special one since it is all about my strong deep personal transformation as an artist. This transformation was based on the expansion ...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Nude woman mixed media original painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Perico Pastor (1953) - Nude woman - Mixed media
Paper measurements 33x24 cm.
Frame measurements 57x48 cm.
Perico Pastor (La Seu d'Urgell, 1953) is a Catalan painter, designer and il...
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Early 2000s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Blue Life - Painting - 2020s
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Life is an acrylic pouring painting on canvased cardboard realized by the Italian artist Amanda Ludovisi.
Hand-signed on the back.
The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Blue Life - Painting - 2020s
Located in Roma, IT
Gold Life is an acrylic pouring painting on canvased cardboard realized by the Italian artist Amanda Ludovisi.
Hand-signed on the back.
The art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Bronze Life - Painting - 2020s
Located in Roma, IT
Bronze Life is an acrylic pouring painting on canvased cardboard realized by the Italian artist Amanda Ludovisi.
Hand-signed on the back.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Grey Life - Painting - 2020s
Located in Roma, IT
Grey Life is an acrylic pouring painting on canvased cardboard realized by the Italian artist Amanda Ludovisi.
Hand-signed on the back.
The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Black Life - Painting - 2020s
Located in Roma, IT
Black Life is an acrylic pouring painting on canvased cardboard realized by the Italian artist Amanda Ludovisi.
Hand-signed on the back.
The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Purple Life - Painting - 2020s
Located in Roma, IT
Purple Life is an acrylic pouring painting on canvased cardboard realized by the Italian artist Amanda Ludovisi.
Hand-signed on the back.
The a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Francis Newton Souza, Indian 20th Century artist, nude abstract drawing
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924 – 2002)
Odalisque
Pen on paper
15.3/4 x 9.7/8 in. (40 x 25 cm.)
Provenance: The artist’s wife Maria, Nee Figueiredo, gifted to her nephew
We have 5 other similar examples by this artist all of the same size. Please go to Ottocento's storefront on 1st dibs for further information.
These examples were saved from being burnt on a bonfire by the artist’s nephew. Maria, Souza’ wife was sick and tired of Souza’s affairs and was burning many of his studies in the garden when her nephew intervened. These studies are from those. Others saved at the same time were executed in 1952 and is highly likely that these are from the same period.
Layered, dynamic, brutally humanistic, the paintings of Francis Newton Souza reveal an artist who never stopped experimenting throughout his six-decade career, perpetually seeking new modes and languages of painterly expression. A founder of the inestimably important Progressive Artists’ Group in Mumbai, he wrote the group’s manifesto and was a crucial intellect in the group’s formation and articulation—as, indeed, he was for Modern Indian art on the whole. He holds an unshakable place among India’s most important and influential Modern painters.
Despite the vast sweep of painting styles encompassed by his oeuvre, Souza’s work is unified by an overt sensuality, sometimes violent, sometimes sexual, but devoted above all to the human body as a wild, fragile, noble and corruptible object. He is hardly the first Catholic-raised artist to fixate on the body. Nudes...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Francis Newton Souza, Indian 20th Century artist, nude drawing
By F.N. Souza
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924 – 2002)
Odalisque II
Pen on paper
15.3/4 x 9.7/8 in. (40 x 25 cm.)
Provenance: The artist’s wife Maria, Nee Figueiredo, gifted to her nephew
We h...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Judith Brenner, Sophie Dancing 2, Original Abstract Impressionist Nude Sketch
Located in Deddington, GB
Judith Brenner
Sophie Dancing 2
Original Nude Drawing
Mixed Media on Paper
Sheet Size: H 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper, Pastel, Ink
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Minimalistic, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled - Contemporary mixed media drawing, Figurative, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Minimalistic, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Untitled - Contemporary mixed media drawing, Figurative, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled - Contemporary mixed media drawing, Figurative, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Minimalistic, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Minimalistic, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Untitled - Contemporary mixed media drawing, Figurative, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Circle of Pablo Picasso Nude Abstract Figurative Monotone Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Superb period work from the 1960's era - very close in every respect to the later works by Pablo Picasso. The artwork is not signed but we believe it to be of French authorship.
Pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
French Abstract Figure Mid 20th Century Signed Graphite and Watercolour
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Nude Female Figure
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed right left
Watercolour and graphite on paper, unframed
measurements: 11 x 7.5 inches (overall sheet measures 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Female #5
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Another baboon face work from the very talented ant Pearce. Clever stuff. Ink on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
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 Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Bela Kadar Ink Drawing "A Study with Female Nude", about 1930
By Bela Kadar
Located in Berlin, DE
Black and brown ink, about 1930 by Béla Kádár ( 1877-1956 ), one of the most important Hungarian artists of the 20th century.
Signed lower right: Kádár Béla. Measurements: 10....
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Abstract nude drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract nude drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add nude drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, green, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Antoni Janusz Pastwa, Carmen Cicero, Louis Nadalini, and Joseph Glasco. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract nude drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 7.5 inches across are also available. Prices for nude drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $250 and tops out at $12,500, while the average work sells for $782.