Edna Elwell

Edna Elwell - Framed 1999 Tempera, Morning Run

1999

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 delightful pastel portrait depicting three Regency women in fashionable dress. The style is a of the French revival period of the early 20th Century, ...

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...

A drawing by Fernando Botero. "Dibujo a la Manera de Velasquez" is a portrait, charcoal and pastel on cardboard in an earth-tone palette by Latin American artist Fernando Botero. It is signed upper right, "Sobre Velazquez Botero -1-27-60 Para Rita. el recuerdo de uno payaso". Fernando Botero, best known for his voluptuously rotund human figures, was born in Medellín, Colombia on April 19, 1932. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, along with his two brothers. He attended a Jesuit school in Medellín and from the age of 12 to 14, he attended a matador training school. The bull fight became a recurring theme in Botero’s early work and while he was in his early teens, he sold his pictures of bull fights in front of the arena. By the time he was 16 years of age, Botero was working as an illustrator for the local magazine El Colombiano. He also began writing articles about art theory, one of which, entitled Picasso and Non-Conformity in Art, led to his expulsion from the Jesuit school for its endorsement of Cubism. One of Botero’s important early works, Woman Crying...

Man and Woman is an original pastel drawing on cardboard paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989). Signed "...

Portraits is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1898-1989). Colored portrait on one side, figure of a woman and two heads in black on the other side. Pastel and charcoal on pape...

Faces is a linocut realized by Mino Maccari in the 1940s. 50 x 30 cm. Handisigned in the lower right part. Edition of 12 copies. Reference; Cat. Meloni , pag 367, n.1741. Good c...

Pastel on paper pasted on canvas Hand-signed on the back by the artist “At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tr...