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Minty RamseyStanding Nude Male Figure Sketch in Pencil on Paper2025
2025
$282.39
£205
€241.54
CA$390.05
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About the Item
Title: Standing Nude Male Figure Sketch in Pencil on Paper
By Minty Ramsey
Signed verso
Size: 8.5 x 11.75 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 figure study by British contemporary artist Minty Ramsey depicts a nude male model standing in a strong, grounded pose with both arms crossing the torso. Ramsey’s work often explores how posture, balance, and gesture reveal the emotional presence of the sitter, and this piece captures that immediacy through energetic, instinctive line work. The upright stance creates a sense of stillness and centred gravity, while the crossed arms introduce subtle tension across the chest, shoulders, and abdomen — features that are characteristic of classical life-drawing practice.
Rendered in pencil on textured artist paper, the sketch showcases Ramsey’s ability to shift between loose gestural marks and more concentrated areas of cross-hatching. The limbs are defined through quick, structural strokes, while the torso is built with layered graphite, giving the figure solidity without overworking the surface. The face, lightly indicated but expressive, adds to the sense of direct observation from a live modelling session.
Standing poses have long been central to figurative art, offering artists the opportunity to study verticality, anatomical proportion, and the distribution of weight through the hips and legs. This drawing continues that tradition with a more contemporary spontaneity, reflecting Ramsey’s interest in capturing the fleeting presence of the human form rather than polished finality.
Ideal for collectors of male nude drawings, life-drawing studies, gesture sketches, and contemporary British figurative art, this work provides a compelling insight into the artist’s process. Unframed and ready for bespoke presentation, it makes a striking addition to any figurative art collection.
- Creator:Minty Ramsey (British)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 8.5 in (21.59 cm)Width: 11.75 in (29.85 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cirencester, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU509317257292
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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