Unknown

20th Century Pastel - Regency Beauties

Unknown

A vibrant palette is used in a gestural manner to depict a captivating portrait of a man deep in thought. The artwork holds a charismatic charm and is signed in the bottom right-hand...

A fine head and shoulders portrait of an innocent young girl, delicately depicted in soft pastel by British artist Donald Wood (1889-1953). The drawing has...

A delightful pastel study of a woman arranging small spring flowers into a brightly coloured vase. The artist captures the scene in bright, uplifting colours from the neatly arranged...

A fine pastel portrait of brown eyed Border Collie Misty, by the well-listed animal portraitist Marjorie Cox (1915-2003). Smartly mounted in a handsome gilt-effect frame with the art...

This fine Victorian portrait depicts a rosy cheeked and red lipped girl, sat wearing a black buttoned down frock with delicate lace collar. The artist has man...

A charming portrait of a wide eyed young girl riding on her father's shoulders, holding a flower. The artist has initialed faintly to the lower left and the drawing has been presente...

Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century. Original colored pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboa...

William Huggins was born in Liverpool, England on the 13th of May, 1820. His parents were Samuel and Elisabeth Huggins. He took his first drawing lessons from the Liverpool Mechanics...

Born in Paris, France in 1873, artist Auguste Grass-Mick apprenticed under lithography engraver Auguste Lemoine, the Dangler brothers and painter Georges Lavergne. A patron of Paris's cabarets, Le Chat...

Dance at the Dream Bar

Pastel on paper Image size: 6 x 7 inches (15.25 x 17.75 cm) Mounted Peter Gardner Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He studied at the Hammersmith School of Art between 193...

Robert Philipp, 'Portrait of a Young Man', color pastel and wet brush, c. 1967. Signed in pencil, lower right. A fine, painterly drawing, on cream laid Michallet drawing paper. The artist's tack holes in the four sheet corners, in very good condition. Image size 19 x 11 1/2 inches (483 x 292 mm); sheet size 19 x 12 3/8 inches (483 x 314 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir. In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis...