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

Martin Tardy (AT / FR)
“Speed Nude Sketch” White Edition, 2021
1c screen print on Munken Kristall Rough, 300g/m²
40x30cm, edition of 96
The regular edition is SOLD OUT
The remaining print in stock is a Print Proof.
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 (White) is the same seated figure on Munken Kristall Rough — the gesture drawing tradition translated into a clean black line on white. Where academic figure study demands precision, Tardy’s line carries the speed and intimacy of Schiele’s nudes: too quick to be careful, too skilled to be careless. The regular edition of 96 is sold out; this is a signed print proof. 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.”

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