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Figurative Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Wakechai (Crouching Eagle) A Saukie Chief Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1842 Wakechai (Crouching Eagle) A Saukie Indian Chief Lithograph with Applied Watercolor The lithograph depicts Wakechai, also known as Crouching Eagle, who was a member of the Sauk and Fox delegation. King renders Wakechai with exceptional detail. The Saukie Chief is adorned with fine accoutrements such as a white fur robe...
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1840s Hudson River School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph

Boat - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1975. Hand signed and dated. Includes a contemporary wooden frame cm. 49x39. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, o...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Paper

Homme à l'agneau, mangeur de pastèque et flûtiste
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed, dated and numbered “Picasso / 3.2.67 / II” (upper right) Crayon on paper Hailed among the fathers of modern art, Pablo Picasso possessed a seemingly e...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon

Mid Century French Portrait of a Chic Auburn Hair Woman Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait Signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided Size: 10.75 height) x 8 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good P...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Study of a Horseman Charging His Opponent
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Joseph Parrocel (1646–1704) Study of a Horseman Charging His Opponent Black chalk on cream paper 20 × 29 cm France, late 17th century Provenance: – William Bateson ...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Lonely go-go dancer
Located in Zofingen, AG
Experimental work done live on a thick red paper with industrial marker and tempera. Inspired by the eponymous song by Mark Almond: "Lonely go-go dancer Dancing in crazy foam Surrounded by your acolytes But going home alone When did you last see A sun-drenched afternoon When did the morning light Last invade your room?" *** In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov won 5 awards at once in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition including the prestigious William Bouguereau Award. In addition, his painting "Girl with a Gun" was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Tempera

The Thinker? —vintage drawing, original 'Superman' artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Nowak, 'The Thinker?', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove dra...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté, India Ink

The Librarian - Blue, Collage, Paper, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Librarian, 2022 collage on paper 61.5 H x 56 W cm Signed on reverse Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands o...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Dead King 11 [12th Century Polish Lord]
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Dead King 11 [12th Century Polish Lord]" is an original ink drawing on archival paper by Kate Glasheen measuring 20.75”h x 16.75”w when framed. The piece sh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Archival Paper

Home VI - Family With A Dog - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple wooden black frames behind glass. The full signature is on the back of the drawing. Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pencil

Nude - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an ink drawing realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Early-20th Century. Ink and watercolor. Good condition. Hand monogrammed.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Young Lovers - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Young Lovers is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Pencil Drawing. Good Conditions. Georges Henri Tribout (1884-1962) ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Mid Century French Ink Illustration of a Woman Carrying a Jug and Bags
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Illustration of a Woman Carrying a Jug and Bags Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Ink and Paper Size: 7.5 (height) x 5.25 (width) Sta...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Silhouette of a Young Girl
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance Grand Central Art Galleries, New York; Samuel B. and Marion W. Lawrence Collection; Christie's, Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, November 29, 2007, l...
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Late 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Man In His Search for God, 1939 WPA Era Original Grey Scale Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This striking vintage 1939 original painting, titled Man In His Search for God, is a powerful piece from Charles Bunnell’s renowned Black and Blue Series. The artwork is painted in i...
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1930s Futurist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Liber Mystia XLIII
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Liber Mystia XLIII" is an original artwork by Henry Hablak made of gouache, ink, and colored pencil on paper measuring 16.25"h x 12.25"w framed and 14"h x 11"w unframed. Henry Habl...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Gouache, Color Pencil

Chinatown, San Francisco
By Edward Wilson Currier
Located in London, GB
'Chinatown, San Francisco', gouache on fine art paper, by Edward Wilson Currier (1903). Spofford Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown is best known for an address (number 36) where Dr. Sun Yat-Sen plotted the overthrow of China's last dynasty. During Prohibition, it was the site of turf battles over local bootlegging and protection rackets. Today it is lined with seniors' community centres. However, the quiet alley livens up in the evenings when a Chinese orchestra strikes up a tune, mah-jongg games begin with a cascade of clicking tiles, and barbers and florists use the pretence of sweeping their doorsteps to gossip. In this artist's depiction, a man smokes a long-stemmed Chinese pipe under the awning and colourful lanterns hanging from the wooden supports while a child looks on. The artwork is interesting from several standpoints including architectural, cultural and historical. Shortly after this work was painted, the neighbourhood was completely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake that levelled most of the city. From 1910 to 1940, Chinese immigrants were detained at the Angel Island...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Barca de Refugiados, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel, Crayon, Pencil

Cuban Artist - Caricature of Adolphe Menjou Debonair Devil
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Cuban Artist/Caricaturist Conrado Walter Massaguer presents Hollywood star Adolphe Menjou in a satirical dual portrait. In the foreground, the subject is seen in a dapper top hat, tux, fashionable cigarette and boutonnière, and is shown as being the epitome of being stylishly debonair. To make a larger point about this subject, Massaguer paints a cast shadow of Menjou as a burning red devil who studies his alter ego from above. Keeping with the artist's sarcasm, we see the good and bad in one image. Works by Massaguer are rare and this work is in keeping with his signature style. This work was most likely done on assignment for Life Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker or Vanity Fair. Signed upper right. Inscribe lower right. Titled on verso. Unframed, Slight bend to board; toning to board; scattered faint foxing; pin point abrasions to margins, not affecting image. 19-1/2 x 15-1/8 inches board size. Conrado Walter Massaguer y Diaz was a Cuban artist, political satirist, and magazine publisher. He is considered a student of the Art Nouveau. He was the first caricaturist in the world to broadcast his art on television.He was first caricaturist to exhibit on Fifth Avenue. He was the first caricaturist in the world to exhibit his caricatures on wood. He, and his brother Oscar, were the first magazine publishers in the world to use photolithographic printing. Self portrait of Conrado Walter Massaguer, depicted on a carrousel ride, with the devil over his left shoulder and an angel over his right. (1945) He created the magazine Social with his brother Oscar to showcase Cuban artistic talent. The duo later created the magazine Carteles, which became for a period the most popular magazine in Cuba, which was purchased by Miguel Ángel Quevedo in 1953. In his life, he met and drew caricatures of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, the King of Spain, and many others.[ In sum total, he was the author of more than 28 thousand caricatures and drawings.Ernest Hemingway once had to refrain himself from punching Massaguer in the face after the artist drew an unflattering caricature of him. The dictator Gerardo Machado, however, did not punch Massaguer for his own unflattering caricature - he had the artist deported. He was one of the most internationally renowned Cuban artists of his day, and his art is still regularly featured in galleries across the Western Hemisphere and Europe. Early life Massaguer was born on October 18, 1889, in Cárdenas, Cuba.[In 1892, his family moved to Havana. When the Cuban War of Independence broke out, Massaguer's family escaped the country. From 1896 to 1908, he lived in Mérida, Mexico. However, during this time, his parents enrolled him in the New York Military Academy, where he stayed during school years. In 1905, after graduating the military academy, he briefly attended the San Fernando school in Havana, where he was tutored by Ricardo de la Torriente and Leopoldo Romañach. In 1906, less than a year later, he returned to the family home in Mexico. Career as artist Early career While living in Yucatán, Mexico, Massaguer published his first caricatures in local newspapers and magazines. These included La Campana, La Arcadia, and the Diario Yucateco. In 1908, he moved back to Havana. After returning to the island in 1908, Massaguer began mingling with Havana's aristocratic circles, forming close friendships with some of the city's most powerful and influential men, as well as winning the favor of many women who were quickly charmed by him. Massaguer, largely self-taught, honed his style using the avant-garde techniques he studied from the European and American magazines that were widely available in Cuba at the time. Cover of the immensely popular Cuban magazine El Figaro, drawn by Massaguer in 1909. This cover depicts two bumbling, incompetent American tourists to the island. He started drawing for El Fígaro, and was featured prominently on the cover in 1909. After two years of refining his craft, Havana announced a poster contest aimed at attracting North American tourists to stay in the city during the winter months. Notable figures like Leopoldo Romañach, Armando Menocal, Rodríguez Morey, Jaime Valls, and others also entered the competition. The jury was particularly impressed by the modern execution and creative solution of one piece, signed by Massaguer, who was relatively unknown at the time. The jury deliberations caused a great controversy.[5] The prize was ultimately awarded to the Galician painter Mariano Miguel, who had recently married the daughter of Nicolás Rivero, the wealthy owner of the conservative newspaper Diario de la Marina. Although Massaguer received only an honorable mention, the fraud scandal caused such an uproar that his name quickly entered the public spotlight, and he became an overnight sensation. In 1910, he became co-owner of the advertising agency Mercurio, with Laureano Rodríguez Castells. At Mercurio, he led the Susini cigar campaign, and earned substantial wealth. Massaguer has been described as a restless man, in both mind and body.After earning enough money from his art to begin traveling, he was almost always doing so. He constantly traveled between New York City and Havana, Mexico and France, Europe and the Americas. In 1911, his reputation among the Havana socialites solidified when he organized his own first public caricature exhibit, and also the first Caricature Salon ever held in the Americas, hosted at Athenaeum of Havana (the Ateneo), and the Círculo de La Habana. Other exhibitors here included Maribona, Riverón, Portell Vilá, Valer, Botet, Barsó, García Cabrera, Carlos Fernández, Rafael Blanco, and Hamilton de Grau. "Messaguer Visits Broadway." Caricatures of theatrical and literary figures. Elsie Janis, Raymond Hitchcock, S. Jay Kaufman (columnist), Ibanez, author of The Four Horsemen, and Frances White In 1912, in the New York American Journal, he published his first Broadway drawings. From 1913 to 1918, he was an editor for Gráfico. Social Main article: Social (magazine) Cover of the magazine Social, July 7, 1923 In 1916, he created the magazine Social with his brother, Oscar H. Massaguer. Social's contributors included Guillén Carpentier, Chacón y Calvo, Enrique José Varona and others.Social has been described as Massaguer's great love in the magazine industry, and was the property that historians say he cared the most about. Social was an innovative magazine, being the first magazine in the world to use a modern printing process called photolithographic printing. Social set cultural trends, not only in the fashion of Cuba, but in art, politics, and Cuban identity.[11] Social catered to a certain aesthetic in Cuba - that of the sophisticated elite socialite - but Massaguer would also use this magazine to ridicule and jibe against that same class of society when he found their personalities worthy of his contempt. In Social, readers could find a variety of content, including short stories, avant-garde poetry, art reviews, philosophical essays, and serialized novels, as well as articles on interior design, haute couture, and fashion. Occasionally, the magazine also featured reports on sports such as motor racing, rowing, tennis, and horse riding.The cultural promotion efforts of both Massaguer and Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring are evident in the magazine. Notably, this period overlaps with their involvement in the Minorista Group, which was then at the forefront of the country's intellectual life.[5] Many contributors were devoted members of the group, leading some experts to consider Social as the cultural voice of the Minoristas. One of the features of Social magazine was its section called "Massa Girls," which was a play on his own name, and pronounced with a glottal 'g' in a similar fashion to the letter in Massaguer.[12] Massaguer drew women as independent and free-thinking, and never drew the woman celebrity as a caricature of herself, but as a free agent surrounded by caricatures.[11] However, Massaguer himself has been described as a womanizer in his personal life, and hesitant to fully embrace every facet of women's liberation. In 1916, he also established la Unión de Artes Gráficas and the advertising agency Kesevén Anuncios.[9] The art critic Bernardo González Barroa wrote: “Massaguer has solved the problem of working hard, living comfortably off what his art produces and not missing any artistic, sporting or social event. His broad, childish laugh, of a carefree individual who carries his luck hidden in a pocket, appears everywhere for the moment, disguising the pranks of pupils that lurk, mock and, finally, flash with satisfaction at finding the characteristic point after having analyzed a soul... Massaguer's personality is beginning to solidify now. He has been the best-known and most popular caricaturist for a long time, but his technique had not reached the security, the mastery of values that he presents in his latest works, which is very natural and explainable”[5] Carteles Main article: Carteles Cover of the magazine Carteles, November 29, 1931 In 1919, Massaguer and his brother created the magazine Carteles.[9] Carteles gained the widest circulation of any magazine in Latin America, and the most popular magazine in Cuba for a time, until that title was claimed by Revista Bohemia. Carteles remained in print until July 1960.This magazine showcased Cuban commerce, art, sports, and social life before the revolution. In 1924, Carteles took a more political turn, with articles criticizing Gerardo Machado's government. it became a prime example of the humor and graphic design employed by artists like Horacio Rodríguez Suria and Andrés García...
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1930s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink, Illustration Board

The Sketch Class, Figurative Study Line Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive line drawing figure study featuring a group of figures in a classroom by David Rosen (Canadian, 1912-2004). Unsigned, but was acquire...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pen, Watercolor

Blue Nude 1 - original tempera on paper by Paula Craioveanu inspired by Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Blue Nude. Inspired by Matisse. Part of my "Nude in Interior" series Original, signed. 50x70cm / 20x28in actual size ink, graphite, tempera on pa...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Tempera

Study for Tongue Cloud Over London with Thames Ball (framed original drawing)
Located in New York, NY
This gestural Claes Oldenburg drawing features subdued watercolor hues of green, orange, brown and grey. Pictured is “Ball”, an unbuilt monument conceived of in 1967 with Oldenburg’s wife Coosje van Bruggen. They imagined two ballcocks – the round mechanism in a toilet tank...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Mid Century French Portrait of a Woman with Draped Veil Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper Size: 25 (height) x 19 (width) Stamped: Verso Condition: Go...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Pencil

Mid Century French Portrait of A Female in Draping Flowing Dress Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided Size: 10 height) x 7.5 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good Provenan...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

The Thinker - Drawing - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Thinker is a drawing artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in late 19th century Ink and watercolor on paper Good condition.
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

ITZCHAK TARKAY "SUNNY DAY" ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR 22"X15" ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK Title: "SUNNY DAY" Size: 15 X 22 INCHES Medium: WATERCOLOR ON FRANCH ARCHES PAPER Edition: ORIGINAL Description: Hand signed by the artist The artwork is in e...
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Early 2000s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Fashion Expenses - Watercolor and Ink by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Fashion Expenses is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In goo...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Murakami Original hand signed Flower Drawing on limited edition skateboard deck
Located in New York, NY
Takashi Murakami Original hand signed Flower Drawing on limited edition skateboard, 2017 Unique Flower Drawing in Marker on skateboard. Signed by Murakami Flower drawing done in mark...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Wood, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Screen

In Isolation Series VI
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This architectural wall-hanging artwork titled "In Isolation Series VI" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of collage, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. This pi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite

The Blue Earth II, CoBrA movement, Mid-20th Century Danish Watercolor
By Carl-Henning Pedersen
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl-Henning Pedersen (Denmark, 1913 - 2007) The Blue Earth II, 1971 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated lower right, signed, dated and titled verso 30.5 x 21.5 inches Carl-Henning Pedersen was born in Copenhagen in 1913. At an early age he began taking part in politics, first in the youth association of social democrats and later in the youth association of communists, which better suited his revolutionary activist nature against fascism. In 1933, he attended the public high school of Humblebaek where he met the painter Else Alfelt, who he would marry in 1934 and with whom he would have two daughters. For many years the family divided its time between Copenhagen and the city of Bovbjerg, located on the North Sea, where Carl and Else had a studio. Between 1935 and 1940, Pedersen started to sketch and paint. He exhibited for the first time, together with his wife, in “Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling” (The Artists' Fall Exhibition) in Copenhagen in 1936. Pedersen associated with the young painters close to abstract movements, and like them, worked under difficult conditions. He went to Paris in 1939, where he encountered the work of Picasso, Matisse and Chagall. Between 1940 and 1945, he contributed to the journal Helhesten. In the same journal, Pedersen published the text "Arte astratta o arte immaginaria," that supplied the most complete and precise definition, up to that point, of the work principles of the young generation of painters, of which he was a part. This definition, in many ways, was close to that which would be the program of the group Cobra. Between 1945 and 1960, the Danish artists went abroad and, along with Dutch and Belgian artists, founded the group Cobra, which was active between 1948 and 1951. During this period in 1948, Pedersen participated in the Biennial of Venice. He exhibited extensively with Cobra in shows such as its first important show which was held at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam in 1949, “International Experimental Art.” Afterwords, Pedersen distanced himself from the group and began to travel frequently. His destinations included Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Norway, Lapland, Iceland, Turkey, Nepal, and Jerusalem. He received the Eckersberg Award in 1950 from the Royal Danish Academy of Art. In 1952, he participated in “Contemporary Drawings from 12 Countries, 1945/1952,” an exhibition held at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, the exhibition also traveled to other museums in the United States, while in 1955, he took part in the group exhibition “Expressionism 1900/1955,” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (also a traveling exhibition throughout the United States). He participated in the 1952, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1964, and 1967 editions of “The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Art of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The same museum also honored him with solo exhibitions in 1961 and 1968. In 1966, he exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York in the show “European Drawings” that also traveled to Hawaii, Canada, Argentina, and Germany. In 1967, he showed at the “2. Internationale der Zeichnung” in Darmstadt, and then in 1968, he participated in the Premio Marzotto and the “Exhibition of Expressionist Art after 1950” at the Kunstmuseum of Lucerne, which then toured in Romania, Australia, Belgium, and Finland. Pedersen received the medal of Prince Eugen in 1980, and he participated in the exhibition “Danish Artists, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Else Alfelt, Egil Jacobsen...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Miniature 19th Century Watercolour - The Street Performer
Located in Corsham, GB
A detailed miniature watercolour study depicting figures enjoying a street performer. Possibly Turkish or Middle Eastern. Well presented in an ornate gilt-effect frame. Signed indist...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Toys - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Maccari in the mid-20th Century. Hand signed lower left. Very good condition except for a minor burn in the top left edge.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice New York Harbor Nocturne Signed lower right Pastel on paper 12 x 19 inches The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Italian Coastal Scene with Bell Tower
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine late 19th century watercolour. Italian coastal scene with fishing boats and white bell tower to the background. Smartly mounted in a gilt-effect frame. On watercolour paper.
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Drawing 14, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. Krzysztof Gliszczyński born in Miastko in 1962. Graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski. Between 1995 and 2002 founder and co-manager of Koło Gallery in Gdańsk. lnitiator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, con-ferred by the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Gdańsk Chapter. Dean of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2008-2012. Vice Rector for Development and Cooperation of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2012-2016. Obtained a professorship in 2011. Currently head of the Third Painting Studio of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts. He has taken part in a few dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has received countless prizes and awards for his artistic work. He is active in the field of painting, drawing, objects, and video. Artist Statement In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Leslie F. Everett - 1914 Watercolour, The Joust
Located in Corsham, GB
This scene depicts two knights caught in a violent joust, with one striking other in the face with their lance. The artist captures the knights in a mix of watercolour and black indian...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor A charming illustration, by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows a woman with a...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Katya
Located in Zofingen, AG
This is one of those sketches where Evgeniy Monahov first used an industrial marker together with tempera - the thick velvety black of his lines expands the tonal range of the delica...
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2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Tempera, Permanent Marker

20th Century French Modernist Figure and Child Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure and child by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 8 x 5.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ballpoint Pen

The Head Of A Woman Echo - Figurative Watercolor Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you. Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Gallant Proposals - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Gallant Proposals is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In go...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

The Violet Dress 14 - Pink and Red Minimalist Figurative Ink Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Mauel expresses dynamism and sensuality in her paintings: “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, flowers, and people in motion, capturing th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Linen, Ink, Mixed Media

Ballet Dancers Resting (Original Watercolor, Reminiscent of Degas)
Located in New Orleans, LA
We added this superb Degas-like watercolor to our inventory years ago, then it disappeared and has just resurfaced - but without the name of the artist, sadly. At any rate, it is cha...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"#220 – PEACE", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, vintage book, hemingway, poetry
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#220 – PEACE" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 220 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's W...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil

Studies for the Judgment of Solomon, a double-sided drawing by Simone Cantarini
Located in PARIS, FR
In this double-sided red chalk study, Simone Cantarini offers us a double reflection on the theme of the Judgment of Solomon. This sheet reveals his precise style and his sense of de...
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1640s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Laid Paper

Matador
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Born in New York, Julian Levi spent his early years in Philadelphia. He began his art studies art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Arthur B. Carles, Daniel Garber, and Henry McCarter. On graduation, Levi was awarded a scholarship which he used to travel to Italy and Paris. During his stay in Europe, which lasted five years, from 1920 to 1925, Levi was influenced by Cubism. He was especially drawn to the art of Juan Gris, adopting the gentle color harmonies and precise linear treatments of forms found in Gris's works. In 1924, Levi participated in an important show of Philadelphia modern artists which included works by Charles Demuth, Hugh Breckinridge, Franklin Watkins...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women artist Green Blue
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
STUDIO OF RAFFAELLO SANZIO, called RAPHAEL (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520) Title The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist Medium Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black ch...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Red Poppy - line drawing woman figure with flower
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size framed (gold) with a styrene face on a double mat b...
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2010s Minimalist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1973, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled, 1973 Year: 1973 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 40 x 30.25 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed & ...
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1970s Photorealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

A ca. 1950 Watercolor of Male Bathers in Morocco by Artist Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1950 watercolor of male bathers in Morocco by artist Andre Delfau. Image size: 7 1/2" x 7 3/4". Archivally matted to 14" x 14". Provenance: Estate of the artist. Born in ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper

Fontainebleau #15 by Yann Bagot - Ink drawing, forest, black & white, nature
Located in Paris, FR
Fontainebleau #15 is an India ink and salt on paper drawing by the French contemporary artist Yann Bagot, dimensions are 70 × 100 cm (27.6 × 39.4 in). The artwork is signed, sold un...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Holiday End - Color Pencil Drawing, Surreal Christmas Scene, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
The artist is a master at storytelling. He sets the stage for the viewer to bring the events to a particular scene. Here, the artist presents us with a curious scene. The Holidays are over and the thought of getting rid of the tree is always a chore. Hrehov has chosen to show how to quickly eliminate the tree (and everything around it!). His sense of humor comes out in this small, highly detailed drawing that is matted and framed measuring 14.5 x 16 inches. John Hrehov Holiday End colored pencil on paper 6.50h x 8w in 16.51h x 20.32w cm JHR005 John Hrehov Education 1985 MFA-Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1981 BFA-Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Solo Exhibitions 2017 John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN. 2012 Shades from White to Black, New Drawings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2011 John Hrehov: Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. 2009 John Hrehov: A Survey 1999-2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Paintings and Drawings. Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 2004 John Hrehov: Drawings and Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2002 Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2001 Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2000 The Picture Proper. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Fearful Symmetry. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. Allegories in Contemporary Life. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1999 Paintings and Working Drawings. Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. 1998 John Hrehov. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. John Hrehov: Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1997 Object Lesson, Paintings, and Drawings by John Hrehov. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1995 John Hrehov. Trinity Art Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 1993 John Hrehov: Selected Works 1980-1992 Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. Group Exhibitions 2019 2019 Alumni Exhibition. Reinberger Gallery at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Out Of The Closet. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 1026 West Berry Street: The Fort Wayne Art School. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 2018 Artlink Regional Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN. 2017 Sola Grace-Faith-Scripture: An Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art. Good Shepherd Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN. Norman Bradley...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Color Pencil

French School 19th Century, Portrait of a dandy, watercolor on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a dandy, watercolor on paper 19 x 13 cm Signed (?) with pencil lower right "L ... " illegible Framed : 29 x 23 cm
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1880s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Differences - Original Abstract Figurative Yellow Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Melissa Chalhoub, a 2014 graduate of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, seamlessly navigates the realms of cinema and visual art. With a background in directing and sound design for ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

John Chetcuti "Fishermen" Original Watercolor c.1950
By John Chetcuti
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Chetcuti "Fishermen" Original Watercolor c.1950 Watercolor dimensions 11" wide x 7" high The frame measures 18.25" wide x 14.5" high Signed in the lower right corner Good vi...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Foxglove" (2024) By Ania Mohrbacher, Original Fantasy Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Foxglove" (2024) Is an original watercolor fantasy painting, which depicts a young witch and her black cat in the center of a clearing in a forest, rife with magical flora and fauna...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Mid Century French Pencil Portrait of a Posed Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided Size: 9 (height) x 7 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good Prov...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Pencil

Nude - Watercolor by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). Good conditions. Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter, eng...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES
Located in Portland, ME
Michallet (attributed). ACADEMIC MALE NUDE FIGURE STUDIES. Four Charcoal drawings, each on heavy wove paper, 19th Century. 24 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches (s...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

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