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Minty RamseyStanding Back View Nude Male Figure Expressive Contemporary Life Drawing2025
2025
$501.38
£365
€427.57
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About the Item
Title: Standing Back View Nude Male Figure Expressive Contemporary Life Drawing
By Minty Ramsey
Signed bottom right
Size: 11.75 x 16.5 inches (height x width)
Medium: Pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Condition: Good overall condition with light handling marks and faint edge wear consistent with studio sketches.
Description:
This expressive pencil study by British contemporary artist Minty Ramsey captures a nude male figure standing in a turning back-view pose. The figure’s torso twists subtly as he looks over his shoulder, creating an elegant asymmetry through the spine and shoulders. This kind of rotated stance is especially prized in life-drawing for its ability to reveal the tension, flow, and anatomical complexity of the human body. Ramsey’s gestural mark-making conveys both structure and movement, giving the drawing a lively immediacy rooted in direct observation.
Working in pencil on textured artist paper, Ramsey combines quick, energetic strokes with areas of deeper shading to enhance the form of the back, hips, and legs. The long vertical lines of the pose emphasise height and balance, while the subtle shift of weight onto one leg provides a natural, grounded sense of posture. The lightly indicated facial features maintain the drawing’s focus on gesture and anatomy rather than portrait identity — a hallmark of contemporary figure study.
Back-view male nude drawings have been a staple of art education and artistic exploration for centuries. They allow artists to focus on musculature, structure, and the relationship between balance and rotation. Ramsey’s interpretation embraces this classical heritage while introducing a modern spontaneity that reflects the rapid pace and instinctive decision-making of live drawing sessions.
Ideal for collectors of male nude studies, gesture drawings, back-view figure art, and expressive contemporary pencil work, this piece offers both immediacy and sophistication. Unframed and ready for bespoke presentation, it enriches any figurative art collection.
- Creator:Minty Ramsey (British)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 11.75 in (29.85 cm)Width: 16.5 in (41.91 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cirencester, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU509317257522
Minty Ramsey
Up and coming British contemporary artist Minty Ramsey lives in Cornwall. She draws her influence from the natural light and movement that Cornwall has inspired in so many leading painters.
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