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Fine 19th Century Coloured Pencil - Portrait of a Gentleman

19th Century

A delightful graphite study depicting the head and shoulders of a woman with her back turned to the viewer. She wears a plain headscarf and large hooped earrings. Unsigned. Presented...

A dramatic contemporary coloured pencil scene, showing a modernist figure in a night time landscape, holding the yellow moon in their hand. The artist ...

A page of soft facial studies in graphite of a young girl. Although just studies, the drawings capture a lot of the child's personality. The drawing has been presented in a black, g...

A wonderful portrait of a young woman by the listed British artist Peter Collins. With pastel detail. Very well presented in a contemporary black frame with double card mount. Signed...

A wonderful portrait of a young woman by the listed British artist Peter Collins. Here he has captured the sitter's effortless beauty with a small number of expressive pencil marks a...

A fine portrait by the listed British artist Peter Collins. With pastel detail. Very well presented in a contemporary black frame with double card mount. Signed and dated. On wove.

Date: 1990 Medium: Ink and Conte Crayon over Graphite on Board Dimensions: 10.00" x 12.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right John Elway, from the middle part of his career, when he was throwing to the Three Amigos...

Medium: Graphite on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Upper Right On illustration board, matted. The piece measures to 18.00" x 14.00" overall with an 8.00" x 6.00" image. Caricature by George...

Medium: Watercolor and Gouache with Graphite on Paper Mounted Signature: Signed Lower Right "I Should Worry." Cover illustration for Judge magazine, pu...

Medium: Watercolor, Graphite, and Wash on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left "The Study Hour (The College Girl at Her Studies)." Illustration for the Colleg...

English Graphite Sketch of a Male Nude, in Profile by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905) on pale blue/grey artists paper, unframed measurements: sheet 18.5 x 12 inches provenance...

Bijing-Ga series XXVII (Nº 27) Title: Tomomoto Toyohina Tomimoto Toyohina was a much sought-after geisha (entertainer) who performed narrative ballads accompanied by the shamisen. She was one of several non-prostitute beauties, including teahouse waitresses, whom Utamaro depicted repeatedly in the early to mid 1790s. She appears here with a brush in hand, dressed and combed with simple elegance. This composition is from a six-print series comprising half-length portraits of famous beauties (Famous beauties of Edo). Utamaro elevated Tomimoto Toyohina to the status of one of the three most renowned beauties of her age (together with Okita and Ohisa). She was from a prominent family of musicians that provided entertainment in the Yoshiwara. Toyohina’s appeal undoubtedly was as much due to her appearance as to her skills in singing, and Utamaro’s celebration of her would have further elevated the status of an already well-known lineage. This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...