Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Hostility, Female Nude
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Hostility, Female Nude, 20th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil and Charcoal on Paper
Inscription: below with estate stamp
Date: ...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper
A girl II - XXI century, Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing
PROVENANCE
Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery.
The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist.
The Gallery o...
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Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
Katya
Located in Sempach, LU
This is one of those sketches where Evgeniy Monahov first used an industrial marker together with tempera - the thick velvety black of his lines expands the tonal range of the delica...
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2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker, Tempera, Paper
Sun reflex before Sunset
Located in Sempach, LU
The last live sketch with industrial marker and tempera at the very end of a beautiful day, when the setting sun painted everything in the studio gold.
Sheet from Monahov's studio a...
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2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Paper, Permanent Marker
Nude woman charcoal drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Luis Fuentetaja (1951) - Nude woman - Charcoal drawing
Drawing measurements 48x32 cm.
Frame measurements 69x53 cm.
Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951.
After attending prim...
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1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Morning stretches
Located in Sempach, LU
A quick live sketch is always a little imperfect - too little time and too much adrenaline in the blood at this moment, but it perfectly conveys the delight of beauty and, as the Fre...
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2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Permanent Marker
Upset Spynx
Located in Sempach, LU
At first, Polina lay in the proud classic pose of the Sphinx, supported on her hands, with her back strongly arched and her head held high. But then the conversation turned to sad to...
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2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
"Boating on the Morin River"
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Pen, ink, watercolor and wash on paper by André Dunoyer de Segonzac, France, 1922-1924. Boating on the Morin River. Measurements : with frame: 52.5x65x2 cm - 20.7x25.6x0.8 inches / without frame: 36.5x45 cm - 14.4x17.7 inches. Signed lower left "A. Dunoyer de Segonzac". Colors may vary slightly depending on your screen. The lighter band at the top and the bottom of the piece, visible in the first picture, is only due to the reflection in the protective glass. It does not exist. In its frame gilt with gold leaf and its protective glass.
André Dunoyer de Segonzac was born in Boussy-Saint-Antoine (Essonne) July 7, 1884. After his schooling at high school Henri IV, as early as 1900, he attends classes at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris in free listener where he will befriend Charles Dufresne. In 1903, he enters the private studio of Luc-Olivier Merson. In 1907, he studies with Jean-Paul Laurens and attends the La Palette and Colarossi academies in Montparnasse. He meets Luc-Albert Moreau and Jean-Louis Boussingault with whom he shares a studio. His first drawings are published in 1908 in The Great Review and The Witness. Nearly indifferent to contemporary aesthetic revolutions, Dunoyer de Segonzac undertakes, with Jean-Louis Boussingault and Luc-Albert Moreau, to revive Gustave Courbet's realism by performing still lifes, nudes, landscapes, in a thick paste and masonry . In one of his letters to the painter Maurice Boitel, he wrote in the 1950s: "I have not forgotten the heroic period of the independents - when we were grouped around Paul Signac, the charming and valiant Maximilien Luce - in these barracks where the living and authentic Art was grouped outside the academic formulas - or literary and systematic tendencies - which were to lead to this abstract aesthetic of which the painting dies. "
In 1908, he begins exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants, with Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce. He befriends Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Raoul Dufy and Vlaminck. From this period, renting a house belonging to Signac, Dunoyer discovers the landscapes of Saint-Tropez, to which he will remain faithful and where he lived until the end of his life. He stays in Saint-Tropez only in the summer season. For the rest, he leads a real nomadic life, in search of the motive especially through the Île-de-France, the Grand Morin valley, Feucherolles, Chennevières-sur-Marne, Guyancourt, etc. "I also worked a lot on the banks of the Seine in Chatou, Bougival, Andrésy, Poissy and Triel that I particularly like, with its beautiful Gothic church that is reflected in the Seine and the high wooded hills that surround him", he will say.
In 1910, he knows fashion designer Paul Poiret and meets Max Jacob, Raoul Dufy and Vlaminck. From 1910 to 1914, he travels to Italy, Spain, North Africa, and is interested in sport and dance (drawings of Isadora Duncan's Russian Ballets, 1911, The Boxers1910). From 1914 to 1918, mobilized in the infantry, he makes the war hardly, before being assigned to camouflage. He performs many war drawings, valuable for their artistic and documentary value.
From 1919, he appears again in many exhibitions, including major Parisian salons. Nearly indifferent to contemporary aesthetic revolutions, Dunoyer de Segonzac undertakes, with Boussingault and Moreau, to revive Courbet's realism by performing still lifes, nudes, landscapes, in a thick and masonry paste. Enlisted in engraving by Jean Émile Laboureur, he makes nearly 1,600 brass plaques from 1919 to 1970. He was president of the Society of French painters-engravers.
In 1921, he meets Paul Valéry, Léon-Paul Fargue and Jean Cocteau. In 1928, he makes a trip to America where he met with great success. In 1930, he becomes friend with Derain. In 1933 he receiveds the Carnegie Foundation of Pittsburgh Award and in 1934 the Venice Biennale.
During the Occupation, in November 1941, he takes part in a "study trip" to Germany, organized by Arno Breker, accepting, like other artists of the most renowned, to visit the hotspots of German culture as well as artist workshops.
After the war, he is exhibited in the best galleries...
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1920s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Dream of flying dandelions
Located in Sempach, LU
This live sketch was made on the same day as the first sketch for the painting “Passion for Color”, which later became famous. The posing session was difficult, Polina was tired and ...
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2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Paper, Permanent Marker
Nude. Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing on cardboard by Polish artist Andrzej Szypluk. Monochromatic drawing of a female in nude.
PROVE...
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Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
Nude. Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing on cardboard by Polish artist Andrzej Szypluk. Monochromatic drawing of a female in nude.
PROVE...
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Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
Nude Female - Italian British art Edwardian nude portrait drawing female artist
Located in London, GB
This is a fine detailed and superbly executed Edwardian drawing by Estella Canziani which dated to circa 1911. Drawn by one of the leading artists of the day, it is a very striking a...
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1910s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Charles Sims, RA - Nude Drapery Study for the Royal Academy Mural
Located in London, GB
CHARLES SIMS, RA, RWS, RSW
(1873-1928)
Drapery Study for the Royal Academy Arts & Crafts Mural
Pencil, squared for transfer
Unframed, in conservation mount
17.5 by 24 cm., 7 by 9 ...
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1910s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude - 20th Century British chalk drawing of a Female Nude by Frank Dobson RA
By Frank Dobson
Located in London, GB
FRANK DOBSON, R.A.
(1886-1963)
Nude
Signed l.l.: Frank Dobson
Red chalk
Framed
35.5 by 25.5 cm., 14 by 10 in.
(frame size 62 by 51 cm., 24 ½ by 20 in.)
Provenance:
Collection of...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
"Large Seated Male Nude" - Modern Pastel Portrait
By Kittie O'Meallie
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite nude by Kittie O'Meallie, an artist out of the famous Newcomb arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans which beginning in the early 20th century led the Southern "...
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Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Carolyn Sergeant - 20th Century British drawing of nude figure
Located in London, GB
CAROLYN SERGEANT
(1937-2018)
Standing Nude
Signed A M C Cann (the artist's maiden name) on the reverse and inscribed Finals
Pencil on buff paper, unframed
49.5 by 34 cm., 19 ½ by...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Reclining female nude
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Reclining female nude, 20th century, Charcoal
Technique: Charcoal on Paper
Inscription: Inscr...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Female back nude
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Female back nude, 20th century, Indian ink
Technique: Indian ink over Pen drawing on Paper
Inscription: monogrammed "C.W." lower ...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Fluting Faun and Female Nude II
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Fluting Faun and Female Nude II, 20th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil and Charcoal on Paper
Inscription: below with estate stam...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Bathers in the pond II
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Bathers in the pond II, 20th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil and Charcoal on Paper
Inscription: verso with estate stamp
Date: ...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Sleeping III
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Sleeping III, 20th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil and Charcoal on Paper
Inscription: below with estate stamp
Date: 20th centu...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Study sheet with bathers
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Study sheet with bathers, 20th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Inscription: right with estate stamp
Date: 20th centur...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Bathers braiding their hair
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Bathers braiding their hair, 20th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Inscription: verso with estate stamp
Date: 20th cen...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Bathers in the pond I
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Bathers in the pond I, 20th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil and Charcoal on Paper
Inscription: verso with estate stamp
Date: 2...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Sleeping II
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Sleeping II, 20th century, Indian ink
Technique: Indian ink over Pencil on Paper
Inscription: below with estate stamp
Date: 20th...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Spartan Warriors (male nude fantasy)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Amazing fantasy group male nude composition by American artist, Robert Frederick Vorreyer (1924-2016). Graphite pencil on paper, image measures 15 x 27 inches; 27.5 x 40.5 inches framed. signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation.
VORREYER, Robert Frederick
Robert Frederick Vorreyer (August 25, 1924 - January 27, 2016) was truly a master of graphic media. The power and dynamics of Robert's graphics are in the use of negative space in the skillful rendering of the human form. Handled with great sensitivity and dignity, the figures seem to be alive with a sharpness that challenges the eye of the beholder. Robert was born in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago, IL and graduated from the Downers Grove High School with and art scholarship to an accredited college. He attended the University of Illinois, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Royal Academy in London as well as studying independently with various artists. Robert was a World War II special service artist in Camp Robinson, AR and eventually became the art director for TLVA Infantry/Airborne School in Fort Benning...
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1990s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Male Nude. Charcoal Drawing
Located in Brecon, Powys
Really well executed male study
Charcoal on paper. Matted
Matting a little tired. Drawing in good order
Image 25" x 18". matted 33" x 25"
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Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Rococo portrait Nude lady in Royal mantle Early 20th century Pastel drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
The drawing perfectly conveys the individual originality of the character of the king's favorite with a lively mind and a kind heart, as evidenced by the royal mantle thrown over the naked body from above. The grace of the pose and the cold courtesy of the lady's smile indirectly reflected her playful temperament and refined coquetry. The drawing is built on the harmony of colors used by the artist. By an unidentified professional painter, vintage pastel drawing...
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Early 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Pastel
Rococo portrait Nude lady in Royal mantle Early 20th century Pastel drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
A lady with a porcelain-delicate toasty face, enchants with playful and refined coquetry. The lively movability of the artist's stroke conveys with all tangibility the reflections and the play of light on the surface of the blue satin, and the airiness of the underwear. The professionalism of this work captures with its imagination, grace and harmony of colors. By an unidentified professional painter, vintage pastel drawing...
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Early 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Pastel
untitled / ohne Titel
By Martin Eder
Located in New York, NY
Martin Eder untitled work on paper executed in ballpoint pen with traces of watercolor. Ohne Titel Arbeit auf Papier, ausgeführt in Kugelschreiber mit Spuren von Aquarell. 2007
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Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Sleeping Nude Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Drawing of a sleeping nude woman by S. LeDrew (20th Century). Signed "S. LeDREW" in the lower right corner. Presented in a double mat of dark red and whi...
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Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Bushwick
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Gina Bellando
Gina Bellando is an award-winning artist and photographer with over 35 years or experience. She graduated with honors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts i...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Wax Crayon, Crayon
Thai Beauty - Seated Female Nude
By Theo Meier
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
Materials
Paper, Chalk
"The Dance, " Ludovico Lipparini, graphite, gouache, mythological, classical
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"The Dance" by Ludovico Lipparini is a beautifully rendered work on paper in the classical tradition using graphite and gouache and created in the f...
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Early 19th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Gouache
Untitled (Seated Man Facing Left)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. ...
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1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Nude - XXI century, Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing
PROVENANCE
Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery.
The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist.
The Gallery o...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Pencil, Cardboard
Untitled #257
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
Numbered 257 in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman an...
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1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
"Vanity, " Charcoal Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Bradley Schwartz's (US based) "Vanity" is an original, handmade charcoal drawing that depicts the monochromatic portrait of a woman with lo...
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2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Vellum, Charcoal
Untitled #187
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
Numbered 187 in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman an...
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1960s Realist 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 ...
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2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Rag Paper, Charcoal
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 Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Robert Schefman "Portrait Study" Graphite Charcoal Nude, Male Portrait
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
"Portrait Study" is a well-detailed portrait study of an older nude man. It is signed and dated by the artist. Michael Hodges has written about Robert Schefman fo...
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2010s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite
Sit In
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Gina Bellando
Gina Bellando is an award-winning artist and photographer with over 35 years or experience. She graduated with honors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts i...
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20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Wax Crayon
Study for femme Nue, Liggend Naakt
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century life drawing study on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. Possibly an atelier sketch for the painting, 'Liggend Naakt' from 1937 (SK054 Mon...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and drew from life models throug...
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1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled #238
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Numbered 238 in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and drew from life model...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Water Sports - Nude Swimmers and Bathers at Coney Island
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...
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1940s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
1937 Academic Female Nude Charcoal Drawing "Head in Hand" UC Berkeley
By John Ayres
Located in Arp, TX
John Ayres
Head in Hand
May 1, 1937
Charcoal on Paper
25"x19", unframed $1250
Signed and dated in charcoal top right
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...
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1930s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, India Ink
Nude
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nude" 2013 is a ink drawing on paper, by noted American artist Richard Benjamin Royce, born 1941. It is signed and dated at the lower right by the artist. The artwork size is 13.75 x 10.75 inches, framed is 21.25 x 17.15 inches. It is custom framed in wooden silver frame. it is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
After getting his BA and MA in fine art at the University of Wisconsin, Richard Royce went to France to study with Stanley W. Hayter, On returning to the US he opened a studio where he produced etchings, cast paper, paintings and sculptural commissions of his own work while at the same time helping other artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, Marisol, George Segal, Raphael Soyer, Francoise Gilot and Jim Rosenquist to realize works in various media.
Selected collections
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York
International Paper Corporation, New York
Isla Center, University of Guam, Micronesia
Byer Museum of the Arts, Evanston, Illinois
Musee du Petite Format, Couvin, Belgique
Uyasuda Life Insurance Company, Japan
Selected solo exhibitions
1991 Prestige Gallery, Danvers, MA
1989 Watermark/Cargo Gallery.. Kingston, NY
1986 ARRAS Gallery, NYC, NY
1985 The Tremellen Gallery, Lancaster, PA
1982 Linden Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
Keller Gallery, Salem, OR
The Tremellen Gallery, Lancaster, PA
1970 Ventura College, Ventura, CO
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1969 Comsky Gallery, Boston, MA
Ohio University, OH
1968 Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
The Galor Hagen Gallery, Dallas, TX
University of Southern California Gallery
Selected group exhibitions
2004 Living Space Gallery, Cornville, AZ
2001 Rodman Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1997 Dalton Fine Art, Boston, MA
Boston Corporate Art, Boston, MA
Prestige Gallery, Atelier Royce Group Show, Danvers, MA
1996 Copley Society Gallery, Group Sculpture Show, Boston, MA
1995 Barbara’s Hang Up Gallery, Group Show, Beverly, MA
1991 Creative Framing Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 5e Exposition International "Petit Format de Papier" Cul-Des-Arts (Couvin), Belgique
1988 Premiere Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format (Traveling show to museums throughout France)
1987 "Eight Upstate Sculptors", Woodstock Artist Assn., NY
1986 First International Biennial of Paper Art, Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Dueren, Germany
1985 '85 Mini-Exhibition, Isla Center, University of Guam, Micronesia
1984 Paperworks: A National Invitational, Chevey Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
Paper, Canvas & Glass, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA
Atelier Royce Group Show, Eclipse Gallery, New York
Contemporary Paperworks, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1983 Paper As Images - Traveling exhibition: Six galleries throughout England
1982 Papermaking USA, American Crafts Museum, New York
Atelier Royce Group Show, State University, Purchase, NY
New American Graphics 2, Art Museum Association of San Francisco Traveling...
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Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Blue Nude
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Gina Bellando
Gina Bellando is an award-winning artist and photographer with over 35 years experience. She graduated with honors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in...
Category
20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Wax Crayon
Untitled (Male Nude with Hands on Waist)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper
Signed and dated, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now...
Category
1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. His works ...
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1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Untitled (Standing Male Nude Facing Right)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper
Signed and dated, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now...
Category
1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Paola I", Nude Drawing by Franco Fusari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian (1945 - )
Title: Paola I
Year: 2009
Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 14 in. x 19.3 in. (35.56 cm x 49.02 cm)
Frame Size: 22.5 x 30 inches
Category
Early 2000s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled (Nude Man with Black Hair)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. ...
Category
1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Rare Rodin Watercolour & Pencil on Paper of a Seated Nude - The Cambodian Dancer
Located in London, GB
Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)
Seated Nude, Cambodian Dancer
c. 1898 - 1900
Pencil and watercolour
11.5 x 9.3 inches;
25 x 20.5 inches, inc. frame
Provenance:
Christie's South Kensington: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
"It's very simple. My drawings are the key of my art."
Rodin was an extraordinary creative artist and a prolific worker. After attending the “Petite École”, he worked in the studio of the ornamentalist Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, first in Paris, then in Brussels, where his skill in handling decorative subjects fashionable in the 18th century became apparent. His discovery of Michelangelo, during a visit to Italy in 1875-76, was a decisive moment in his career. Rodin would, in turn, break new ground in sculpture, paving the way for 20th-century art, by introducing methods and techniques that were central to his own artistic aesthetics.
In 1906, King Sisowath of Cambodia visited France on an official state visit. It was on this visit that Rodin discovered the dancers of the Cambodian Royal Ballet and was inspired to draw and paint them over 150 times.
They made a deep impression on the artist, as he confided to Georges Bourdon, in an article for the newspaper Le Figaro on 1 August 1906: “There is an extraordinary beauty, a perfect beauty, about these slow, monotonous dances, which follow the pulsating rhythm of the music… [The Cambodians] have taught me movements I had never come across anywhere before…”
Originally seeing them in Paris he left everything suddenly to follow the dancers of the royal ballet to Marseille, from where they would embark on their return to Cambodia.
In just one week, he made about one hundred and fifty drawings, re-transcribing or interpreting the ballet poses, with an obvious fascination for the arms and hands of the dancers. These drawings were later highlighted with watercolour, creating coloured harmonies of a rare refinement.
The first performance of the Cambodian Royal Ballet took place in the context of the Colonial Exhibition in Marseille. Sisowath 1st had just been crowned King of Cambodia when he undertook the first trip ever to be made by a Cambodian sovereign to France, which had controlled Cambodia since June 1884. This official visit occurred at the height of French colonial expansion. Previously, the Universal Exhibition of 1900 had attracted 48 million visitors! The organisers realised what a tremendous impact this event made on the public, and it was soon adopted as the main tool for colonial propaganda. At the exhibition in Marseilles, the area devoted to Indochina was the largest of the seven sections.
When Auguste Rodin met the troupe of dancers for the first time in July 1906, during their brief visit to Paris for an exceptional performance at the Pré Catalan...
Category
19th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled #177
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
Numbered 177 in pencil, u.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and...
Category
1970s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Cross Up
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original realist pastel drawing by American female artist Catherine Koenig.
Category
1990s Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
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