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Figurative Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
No Name
Located in New York, NY
Black felt marker on paper with six bullet holes
Signed, titled, and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Willam Seward Burroughs (1914-1997)...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pen drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Peaceful Backstreets Of French Village
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper mounted in a card frame
size: 25.5 x 21 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed - wi...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
This appears to be dated 1927. It came in with a piece dated 1929. A very early, rare work.
Framed 22.5 x 18. Image 14.5 x 9
A great New York city street scene with an El train (elev...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Parrot, 20th Century Watercolor by New York Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965)
Parrot
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
25 x 19 inches
31.25 x 25.25 inches, framed
Born in 1876 in Illinois, Jane Peterson would grow into ...
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mythological combat scene with Roman soldiers on horseback.
By Virgil Solis
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and brownish black ink on grayish-cream laid paper, 6 1/2 x 8 inches (165 x 175 mm), irregular hexagonal sheet with margins. Some archival repairs along the top sheet edge, scatt...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen
Blanche et Noire
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Blanche et Noire, de l'album «Toulouse-Lautrec, douze lithographies»
52,2 x 35,9 cm
Category
1890s Naturalistic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
A heron fishing – Edo School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and watercolor on fibrous Japon paper laid down to period cream laid paper, 6 x 7 1/2 inches (155 x 190 mm). Minor toning and some insect damage on the mount, painting itself rem...
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Mid-19th Century Edo Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Infanta IV: Figurative Cubist Abstract Graphite Drawing with Antique Frame
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative abstract cubist style drawing inspired by the Infanta Margarita in an antique gold frame
“Infanta IV” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2015
23 x 18 inch...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Nude - Pen on Ivory Paper by Fausto Ghia - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pen on ivory paper realized by Fausto Ghia.
Hand-signed on the lower left with dedication.
The state of preservation is very good.
Included a Passep...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
$310 Sale Price
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Judith Brenner, Sophie Dancing 1, Original Figurative Art, Abstract Sketch Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Judith Brenner
Sophie Dancing 1
Original Figurative Drawing
Acrylic Paint, Pan Pastel, Ink and Watercolour Pencil on Paper
Sheet Size: 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Sophie Dancing 1 is an original nude drawing by Judith Brenner.The figure is continuously moving and the final work is a composition made in an attempt to capture the rhythm of the dance. This abstract-impressionistic work is evocative of Francis Bacon’s style...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, (Colors, new tales follow...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, published in Le Mercure de France
(Colors, new tales follow old things), 1908
Graphite and colored pencil, 1926
Signed in pencil l...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Framed 20th Century Watercolour - A Loyal Companion
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour and gouache study of a young child, lying outdoors with a black and white springer spaniel. Well presented in a circular gilt frame with hatching and foliate d...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, viewed of the back
bears the monogram ED but it is not visible because it is hidden by the mounting of the frame...
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1880s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
French Neo classical school, Allegory of Time, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Neo classical school, France, end of the 18th Century
Allegory of Time,
Pen and black ink on paper, gray ink wash
30.5 x 19 cm
irregularly shaped
In g...
Category
1790s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
$567 Sale Price
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Giuseppe Migneco(Italian painter) - 20th century figure drawing - Fortune teller
Located in Varmo, IT
Giuseppe Migneco (Messina 1903 - Milan 1997) - The fortune teller.
49.5 x 39.5 cm without frame, 52.5 x 40.5 cm with frame.
Antique mixed technique drawing on paper, in wooden fram...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Posing Nudes - Charcoal Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nudes is a drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Charcoal on paper.
Good Conditions.
The artworks are represented through strong deft strokes and nudes whil...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s.
He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
1910's Art Deco Erte Gouache Painting Original Hand Signed Rare French Costume
By Erté
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare original signed Art Deco gouache on paper by Erte (Romain de Tirtoff)
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This stunning theatrical costume design is signed Erte at the lower right.
The piece is 20 by 18 fram...
Category
1910s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil
$6,400 Sale Price
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1937 Academic Female Nude Charcoal Drawing "Head in Hand" UC Berkeley
By John Ayres
Located in Arp, TX
John Ayres
Head in Hand
May 1, 1937
Charcoal on Paper
25"x19", unframed $1250
Signed and dated in charcoal top right
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, India Ink
The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1958
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1958.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gold Rush Town Columbia, California Landscape by Lillie Heebner
By L. Heebner
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful figurative landscape watercolor painting of Columbia, California, showing two men in cowboy hats. By Lillie Eesther (Hillman) Heebner, a Monterey Bay area artist. Signed "L....
Category
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Duchándome. Nude watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchándome, by Celso Castro
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor, ink, and pastel archival paper. NUDES 2D
Individual size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
2018
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper
At the dock
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "At the Dock" c.1980 is a watercolor on 500 Aquarelle paper by noted American artist Allen Daniel (Dan) Burt, 1930-2004. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 21.5 x 29.5 inches, framed size is 29.5 x 37.5 inches. Custom framed in a white metal frame, with off-white matting. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has some minor scratches, the acrylic glass have some scratches and will be replaced by a new...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) Poèmes magyars
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
Poèmes magyars, Magyar poems
bears the monogram "M" on the lower left, titled in the upper right
Ink on paper
29,8 x 19,8 cm
in good condition, the sheet is slightly yellowed
In a modern frame : 33 x 23 cm
This is an illustration project by Felician Myrbach for François Coppée's work, "Poèmes magyars". He leaves the space to be occupied by the text blank on the sheet and arranges his composition accordingly. It is interesting to see the artist imagine his drawing with this constraint.
Felician Myrbach (also Felicien de Myrbach, Felician von Myrbach, from 1919 Freiherr von Rheinfeld) was born on 9 February 1853 in Zalishchyky, he died 14 January 1940 in Klagenfurt
He was an Austrian painter, graphic designer and illustrator. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession and the director of the Applied Arts School in Vienna (now the University of Applied Arts Vienna), and was instrumental in the creation of the Wiener Werkstätte.
Myrbach's father was Franz Myrbach (1818–1882), the Administrator of Bukovina in 1865–70. His older brother Franz Xaver (1850–1919) was an economist and professor at the University of Innsbruck. He attended the Theresian Military Academy in 1868–71, graduating as a Leutnant, then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under August Eisenmenger. In 1875, he joined the 19th Feldjäger Battalion, and in 1877 became an Oberleutnant in the Military Geographic Institute, then, after campaigning in Bosnia in 1878, he taught drawing at the Infantry Cadet School in Vienna. He continued his artistic studies under C R Huber. In 1881, he went on military leave and moved to Paris, retiring totally from the military in 1884 as a Hauptmann, 2nd Class. He stayed in Paris until 1897, working as an illustrator, including illustrating the works of Alphonse Daudet, Victor Hugo and Jules Verne.
Myrbach was a founding member of the Vienna Secession in 1897. In the same year, he became the a professor of the Applied Arts School at the Museum of Art and Industry; Arthur von Scala, another reformer Modernist, was made head of the Museum. In 1889, Myrbach became the director of the school. He brought an enthusiastic Modernist attitude and encouraged an integration between art, design and production. He added Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann to the staff, amongst other Secession artists. This would lead to the foundation of the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. Myrbach leant more towards an aesthetic approach than von Scala, but both worked together to bring about their combined vision of successful, popular Austrian applied art. Myrbach was a voice for reform towards Modernist ideals in the School, which was started 1899 with the support of Alfred Roller, and completed by 1901.The reform of the school has been described as his "lasting merit".
Ludwig Hevesi called Myrbach "probably the best [illustrator] in Vienna", partially for his work (with Moser) in the Secession magazine Ver Sacrum.
Myrbach visited America on a state-funded study trip in 1904, part of which was to represent the Applied Arts School at the 1904 World...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
John W. Carmichael (1800-1868) - Graphite Drawing, Mussel Pickers on the Shore
By John Wilson Carmichael
Located in Corsham, GB
Initialled and dated lower right. Artist's name and dates inscribed verso by a later hand. Presented in a narrow wooden frame. On primed paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Frank Richards, Newlyn School, English Watercolor of figures on a Cornish beach
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully fluid watercolour capturing the end of the day on a Cornish beach, most probably Newlyn where Richards was painting from the 1890s onwards.
Frank Richards (1863-1935)
...
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1890s Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Judith Brenner, Solfrid Dancing 2, Original Contemporary Figurative Nude Sketch
Located in Deddington, GB
Judith Brenner
Solfrid Dancing 2
Original Figurative Drawing
Acrylic Paint, Pan Pastel, Ink and Watercolour Pencil on Paper
Sheet Size: 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Plea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Gwen Verdon "Redhead" Original Caricature Drawing NY Times Published Tony Awards
Located in New York, NY
Gwen Verdon "Redhead" Original Caricature Drawing NY Times Published Tony Awards
Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003)
Gwen Verdon in "Redhead"
Sight: 14 1/2 x 19 inches
Ink on board
Signed l...
Category
1950s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Ink
Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Daniel Ralph Celentano, Untitled (Strike Breakers) pencil, c. 1934. Signed, lower right. A fine, social-realist drawing, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches), in...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mid Century French Portrait Seated Figures with Hat and Loose Shirt
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated figure
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 12 (height) x 8.5 (width)
Condition: G...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
$145 Sale Price
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19th Century Watercolour, Street Musicians
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour sketch of two travelling street musicians in the style of the 18th century artist David Allan. Well presented in a simpl...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$273 Sale Price
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Pat Buckley leaving town. From The Art, culture & society Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
MB 005 (Modern, Traditional Style Figurative Life Drawing of Muscular Male Nude)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative nude drawing on Arches paper
graphite, conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
22 x 15 inches unframed
Contemporary figurative life study drawing of a reclining male nu...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Graphite
Reginald Daniel Sherrin (1891-1971) - Framed Gouache, Views of Dartmouth
Located in Corsham, GB
This captivating gouache painting by British artist Reginald Daniel Sherrin (1891-1971), depicts a coastal view at the mouth of the river Dart with sail...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
An Afternoon Cafe Scene of Figures Engaged in Conversations French Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Landscape
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper
Size: 7 height) x 9 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenance: All the pa...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Double sided crayon drawing in colors: Study for "The Shoe" (recto)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Double sided crayon drawing:
Front: Study for "The Shoe"
Reverse: Studies of Figures
Blue crayon, red and black crayons
Image size: 19.25 x 15.375 inches
Frame size: 30 x 25 1/2 inch...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
This Ain't Sotheby's This is Texas, Rosemary Mahoney, Cattle Auctions,
Located in Houston, TX
"People, the human figure, fascinate me. Regardless of age or social status, I take particular interest in grasping the one moment that belongs solely to an individual." - Rosemary Mahoney...
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1990s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Reclining Female Nude
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Reclining, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower left, unframed. 18" H x 24" W. Provenance: From a 35 East 7...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s.
Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe.
Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area.
In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little.
In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society.
In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
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1940s Tribal Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper
Spirit of Youth, Watercolor and Pastel Drawing by Will Barnet
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Barnet, American (1911 - 2012)
Title: Spirit of Youth
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Watercolor and Pastel on Paper, signed and dedicated
Size: 11 in. x 7.5 in. (27.94 cm ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Portrait of a Woman, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 24.25" H x 19" W. Provenance: Fr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Edward Hull (1810-1877) - Framed Watercolour, Exercising
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming watercolour shows a steady jockey exercising his owner's racehorse with a strong, galloping stride. The watercolour has been signed to the lower left. Immaculately pres...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$443 Sale Price
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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...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$2,421 Sale Price
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The Pilgrim - Green, Red, Collage, Contemporary Art, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Pilgrim, 2022
collage, tempera, ink on paper
56.5 H x 40.5 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pie...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Tempera
$899 Sale Price
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Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Female- Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided
8.25 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Boats at the Dock
By Stephen Seymour Thomas
Located in Dallas, TX
gouache with pen and ink
signed "Seymour Thomas" at lower right
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
Dreaming - original large Blue nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Dreaming”, pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Nude shown in a Victorian interior, in a cinematic view. In a distorted per...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Archival Paper, Pencil
MB 017 (Figurative Life Drawing of Female Nude by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style life drawing of female nude with charcoal and graphite by Mark Beard, "MB 017"
graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 22 inches unframed
Signed, lowe...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
'Navajo Family', Santa Fe, Modernism, Corcoran, Whitney, PAFA, AIC, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'by Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower center, 'for Ruth' and painted circa 1945. Additionally signed and titled verso 'Navajo Fa...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache, Watercolor
" la Voix Humaine " . certified .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889-1963 )
" la voix Humaine " . 1939 .
dessin original de jean Cocteau . signé . avec l'étoile .
19 x 12 cm .
encadrement : 39 x 32 cm.
certificat de Madame Annie...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Malua Rosea Multiplex (drawing paper monochrome Botany girl braids monochrome)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Georgian Contemporary Art by Eter Merkviladze - Flamingos
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on a watercolor paper
Eter Merkviladze is a Georgian female artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated from Robert Schuman European Schoo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Sister Corita Kent, "Love You" Unique signed watercolor painting on paper Framed
Located in New York, NY
Sister Mary Corita Kent
Love You, ca. 1975
Original signed watercolor painting on paper
Signed in graphite pencil on the recto
Floated and framed in white wood frame
This is a unique work
Measurements:
Framed:
5.5" x 5.5" x 1.5"
Artwork alone: 4" x 4"
Extremely difficult to find unique watercolor works on paper on the market by Sister Corita...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
France 19th century, The Bohème artist in his workshop, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1850
The Bohème artist in his workshop
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 21.5 cm
In good condition except a small tear (visible on the photographs) on the upper right border.
I...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$681 Sale Price
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The Round Pond, Market at Concarneau, Brittany, France /// Female Artist Antique
By Beatrice Stella Pedder
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Beatrice Stella Pedder (English, 1875-1965)
Title: "The Round Pond, Market at Concarneau, Brittany, France"
*Signed by Pedder lower right
Circa: 192...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Central Park" Leon Dolice, New York Central Park Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Central Park
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young ma...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$2,400 Sale Price
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Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Lady - Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided
10.5 x 8.25 inches
provenance: private collection ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
