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Untitled
Located in New York, NY
John Button Untitled 1968 Signed and dated in pencil, l.r. Pencil on paper 16.5 x 12.25 inches
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1960s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Untitled
Price Upon Request
Study of a Standing Female Nude
Located in London, GB
Evelyn de Morgan Study of a Standing Female Nude 1855 - 1917 Black chalk and pastel on grey paper Image size: 12 ½ x 19 inches (48.2 x 31.7 cm) Pre-Raphaelite style frame Provenance J.S. Mass & Co., Ltd., London, J.X. Reynolds & Co., Ltd. Once she had graduated from the Slade School of Art, Evelyn continued to draw every day for the rest of her life. Her drawings are enlightening not only for their skill and subject matter, but also for their ability to teach us her working process. From loose compositional sketches, Evelyn swiftly progressed to detailed life studies for the figures in her paintings. Choosing to draw mainly on a grey wove paper in pencil and pastel, Evelyn produced hundreds of figure studies. Her rigorously-examined double studies of clothed and nude figures are particularly fascinating and underline the artist’s obsession with the human form and her desire for accuracy. A deep understanding of anatomy is obvious in this drawing and looking at the work you feel as though you can reach out and feel the muscle and bone under the skin, that you could feel the pulse of life through the soft skin. Evelyn de Morgan Born into a landowning family, from an early age Evelyn De Morgan, née Pickering, demonstrated a precocious artistic talent and a passionate desire to pursue a career as an artist, writing in her diary on her seventeenth birthday ‘Art is eternal, life is short… I have not a moment to lose’ (Evelyn De Morgan’s Diary, 30 August 1872, De Morgan Foundation Archive). Her maternal uncle, the artist John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope encouraged her talents and accompanied her on her first formative journeys to Italy where she discovered the Renaissance masters, particularly Botticelli. Overcoming initial parental opposition, Evelyn enrolled at the newly formed Slade School in 1873, one of the first women to do so. The Slade revolutionised women’s artistic education by allowing female students to study the nude from life alongside their male counterparts. Whilst at the Slade she began to submit work under her middle name Evelyn, rather than her Christian name Mary, as its gender ambiguity offered a chance for her work to be judged on its own merit. One of her tutors, Edward Poynter...
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20th Century Victorian Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Chalk, Pastel

Water No. 1, after Tom, Self Portrait by Zachari Logan, Blue Pencil on Mylar
Located in New York, NY
This is a drawing and self portrait by Zachari Logan in blue colored pencil on Mylar of the artist nude and submerged in a body of water. This is a drawing made with blue colored pencil on Mylar of a nude man with long dark hair in water up to his thighs surrounded by branches. Water No. 2, After Tom 2022 Accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed by the artist Colored pencil on Mylar 7.5 x 5.25 inches “This drawing is a tribute to Tom of Finland, whose work has long-influenced my own in relation to drawing, the construction of space, and self-portraiture. In Finland’s compositions, images of men in the landscape—logging, foresting, and relaxing (together, naked, clothed, alone, in pairs and in groups) had a profound effect on my own thinking about the queer body represented. I see no separation between land and body—we are nature. The queer body is not unnatural (that is a false dichotomy, often espoused by religious and conservative world views). Finland’s renderings of bodies in nature are for me a rupture of the largely European tradition of only representing male nudity...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Mylar, Color Pencil

Pastoral Landscape with Reclining Odalisque and Fruit
Located in Long Island City, NY
This reclining nude portrait of a woman on a picnic makes several different art historical references. The bold, almost neon colors are reminiscent of the tropical paintings rendered by Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The setting harkens back to "Luncheon in the Grass" by Manetl. And the pose is historically associated with sex workers and the goddess Venus, in paintings like "Olympia" by Manet, "Grande Odalisque" by Inges, and even further back like "Venus of Urbino...
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1930s Cubist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Jon Writing
Located in New York, NY
Jon Writing Signed Color crayon on paper 19 x 25 inches (48.3 x 63.5 cm) Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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1970s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Crayon

Jon Writing
Jon Writing
Price Upon Request
Daphné
Located in New York, NY
Daphné 2012 Graphite on paper 42.5 x 44 inches Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Daphné
Daphné
Price Upon Request
Torso No. 2, Cranach (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series)
Located in New York, NY
Torso No. 2, Cranach (from the “Imaginary Europeans” Series) 2017 Blue pencil on Mylar 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm) Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by CLAMP in...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Mylar, Color Pencil

Dino
Located in New York, NY
1998 Signed and dated, l.r. Conté crayon on paper 22.5 x 15 inches, image
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1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Conté

Dino
Dino
Price Upon Request
Leaning Female Nude
Located in New York, NY
Leaning Female Nude Crayon on paper 12.5 x 9 inches (31.8×22.9 cm) Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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1960s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Conté

Nude Study no. 50, Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Nude Study no. 47 Year: 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated l.l. Size: 24 x 19 inches
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1940s Fauvist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Many Figure Studies and Studies for Compositions with Groups
Located in New York, NY
Many Figure Studies and Studies for Compositions with Groups Black ink on paper 14 x 9.75 inches (35.6 x 24.8 cm) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Athletic Nude Model in Repose
Located in New York, NY
Athletic Nude Model in Repose 1962 Initialed and dated, l.r. Black ink on British Scraper Board 12 x 19.5 inches (30.5 x 49.5 cm) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Illustration Board

Nude Model Wearing a Cross Necklace
Located in New York, NY
Nude Model Wearing a Cross Necklace Black ink on paper 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Flexing Male Nude
Located in New York, NY
Flexing Male Nude Black ink on paper 20 x 14 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

On One Knee
Located in New York, NY
On One Knee Ink on paper 18.5 x 12.5 inches (47 x 31.8 cm) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Athletic Pose
Located in New York, NY
Athletic Pose Charcoal and Conté crayon on paper 17.5 x 12 inches (44.5 x 30.5 cm) This work is offered by Clamp Art in New York City.
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Conté, Charcoal

Backside
Located in New York, NY
Backside Pink ink on paper 13 x 8 inches (33 x 20.3 cm) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category

20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Backside
Price Upon Request
Many Studies of One Model
Located in New York, NY
Many Studies of One Model Graphite and black ink on paper 14 x 9.75 inches (35.6 x 24.8 cm) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Graphite

"Spiritual Self-Portrait" Watercolor, Ink, Portrait, Nude, Linear Grid, Colors
Located in Detroit, MI
"Spiritual Self-Portrait" is a portrait of the artist by the artist. She has presented herself nude gazing boldly and directly at the viewer not so much challenging, but inviting dia...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

"UNTITLED", Drawing on Paper, Ink and Acrylic, Nude Woman in Black, Cream, White
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Natasha Wright's art probes the politics of representation of the female form. Gender, sexuality, vulnerability and power, seduction and aggression - th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Feminist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Monster Mash
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Surrealism has been my passion since a young age. The concept of being able to manifest my visions into a space where it can be seen and interacted with has always been fascinating...
Category

2010s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen, Pencil

Shower Study II, 20th Century, David Hockney, Drawing, Modern British
Located in London, GB
David Hockney Shower Study 2, 1963 signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Shower Study 2 DH. '63' (lower right) wax crayon and graphite on paper 12 3/8 x 9 7/8 in (31.4...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Wax Crayon, Graphite

"Nude Study 9, " Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Nude Study no. 9 Year: 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated Size: 19 in. x 24 in. (48.26 cm x 60.96 cm)
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1940s Fauvist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

"Nude Study no. 30, " Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Nude 30 Year: 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed u.r. Size: 19 in. x 24 in. (48.26 cm x 60.96 cm)
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1940s Fauvist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

"Nude Study no. 47", Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Nude Study no. 47 Year: 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated l.l. Size: 24 x 19 inches
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1940s Fauvist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Polynesia
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green stu...
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1940s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Spirit of Free Men
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a monumental original graphite drawing by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld. Rosenfeld was classically trained in Poland before set...
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1930s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Repose
By Dale Barnhart
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional original drawing by American artist Dale Barnhart. Barnhart, was an illustrator who works prolifically on many films including, "The Jungle Book", Winnie...
Category

1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Repose
Price Upon Request
California Girl
By Emil Jean Kosa Jr.
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A wonderful original charcoal drawing by American artist Emil Kosa Jr. The drawing is unframed, and there is a small tear in the upper right margin, but it does not detract from t...
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1940s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charcoal on paper
Category

1970s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

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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.

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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