Martin Tardy (AT / FR) – Speed Nude Sketch (Black)

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Martin Tardy (AT / FR)
“Speed Nude Sketch” Black Edition, 2021
1c screen print on Stone Carbon, 300g/m²
40x30cm, edition of 24
The print ships signed and numbered by the artist including a certificate of authenticity

Martin Tardy is a Vienna-based artist of Austrian-French descent, born 1992, whose practice follows a single rule: the pen never leaves the paper. His continuous line drawings trace the human body in unbroken gestures — a technique rooted in Picasso’s single-line portraits and Matisse’s figure studies, but taken further. Tardy often draws with both hands simultaneously, turning each work into a performance. This is his first screen print series, produced in close collaboration with LEAP — the artist selected three works from his private collection to be reproduced on carefully chosen papers.

Speed Nude Sketch (Black) shows a seated figure from behind — hair tied up, legs crossed, spine curving — captured in the kind of rapid gesture drawing that has been central to figure study since the Académie des Beaux-Arts. But where academic nudes aim for anatomical precision, Tardy’s line moves too fast for that. The result sits closer to Egon Schiele’s charged figure work: raw, intimate, and unapologetically quick. White line on Stone Carbon paper. One-color screen print.

The original came from a mutual sketching session — “I sketched her and she sketched me. This one came out very raw, and for me the line work brings so much emotion and calmness. The original is owned by my girlfriend and remains in our collection.”

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