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Pastel Portrait of Stella Samuel in the style of Charles Sheldon for Photoplay

1933

This abstract pastel drawing by artist Amalua Schulthess features large light and dark blue blocks crossed by wide black lines. They are so wide that they could be easily mistaken fo...

Nahuatl art inspired this multicolor geometric abstract by artist Carl Lewis Pappe. The overall impression is of a colorful overlap of shapes of different sizes thanks to curvy black lines. The crossing of these black lines creates a large variety of geometric forms. Some forms have been left almost blank, because the artist added small red circles or ovals, suggesting some kind of mysterious gates to another dimension. It adds a sense of wonder to the general feeling of the artwork. Th abstract is signed by the artist at the lower right and dated 1989. It is labeled for Taxco, Mexico. Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Carl Lewis Pappe was born in Hungary in 1900. He died in 1998. Following grade school, Pappe first enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (not the Cleveland Institute of Art) from 1921 to 1925. Upon graduation, the Hungarian Society awarded him a full scholarship to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Daniel Garber and Hugh Breckinridge. In the late 1930s, Pappe and Goodspeed opened a studio and gallery in the silver mining...

Presenting a drawing by Joan Strauss Carl, which served as a preparatory study for one of her three-dimensional sculptures. Joan Strauss Carl’s artistic j...

The power of an image cannot be received at a glance. To understand it fully, we should interpret it, letting ourselves be lulled by its balance. The architecture of his drawing be...

Pair of nude figure drawings done with a mix of pastels, and gouache. Signed and dated 1963. Born in Tacoma, WA on Oct. 23, 1918. Randall was in Salem, OR during the 1930s. He create...

Lorraine Ginsburg was an insightful and prolific artist, born in the Bronx in 1929. She passed away in 2020. She experimented extensively, playing with abstract forms or executing m...

Examples like this of Sylvia Spicuzza's work offer a chance to see a musical composition, with repeating curvilinear lines and patters dancing across the image like Jazz music though...

Marc Chagall 1887-1985 Russian Musiciens sur fond multicolore (Musicians on a multicolored background) Signed 'Chag' (on the sleeve of the right figure); stamped with the signature 'Marc Chagall' (lower right) Tempera, gouache, colored ink and India ink and pastel on paper “The fact that I made use of cows, milkmaids, roosters and provincial Russian architecture as my source forms is because they are part of the environment from which I spring and which undoubtedly left the deepest impression on my visual memory of the experiences I have." - Marc Chagall Marc Chagall’s 1981...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Fire (3) by Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) Gouache and pastel on paper 27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 ⁷/₈ x 8 inches) Signed, ...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Red River Inside my Eyelids by Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) Ink, pastel, felt pen on paper 55 x 39.8 cm (21 ⁵/₈ ...

Work : Original Drawing, Unique Work, Handmade Artwork. The work has been treated with Archival Varnish with UV protection and it is not framed. Medium : Soft Pastel on archival pap...

Pastel & pencils on paper Anna Kazmina is a Russian artist born in 1987 who lives between Moscow, Russia and Beijing, China. She was graduated from Department of Art, Moscow State U...