Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Poli Negri I and Vilma Banky Diptych, 2016 From The Dis-enchanted series Ink on paper Overall frame size: 20 in. H x 32 in. W x 1 in D Individual size: Image size: 16.5 in. H x 11....

Female Portrait is a modern artwork realized in 1965. Mixed colored drawing on paper. Signature and date on the lower margin. 

This original artwork on paper features the classic black pencil skirt, a quintessential fashion staple. Using paint and pencil, deliberate emphasis is placed on simplified compositi...

A muscular male torso with tattooed arms, holds a gun while gazing up towards the sky. The face is obscured but the viewer is drawn toward the taut, defined muscles. This piece is floated and framed in a simple black frame measuring 18.25h x 15.25w inches. Bruno Surdo Strength charcoal on paper 11h x 14w in 27.94h x 35.56w cm BRS113 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden Mike & Jill Rose SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Bruno Surdo: The Method Artist Responds, by Lucia Mauro, June 26, 2014, anitathemovie blog An Exhibition of Exhibitionism: Bruno Surdo’s ‘Respond’, by Carrie McGath, July 1, 2014, The Chicagoist Website, Arts and Entertainment “Inspired Environs: A renowned designer decks out his Loop abode in art and texture” Modern Luxury, Men’s Book, Spring 2014 “Master Class” What’z Up Magazine, Fort Wayne, 2011 ”9/11 Painting will be on Display” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 2011 “Illuminated Images” Fort Wayne Reader, 2011 “Two Faces of Beauty” American Art Collector Magazine, Issue #3 and #59, 2006/2010 “Art and Calamity” Art Papers, 2009 “Versions of the Present, Techniques of the Past” American Artist Magazine, 2004 “Living Artists” Crow Book Publishing, Chicago, IL 2004 “The New Master” by Craig Keller, Chicago Social Magazine, 2004. “Tragedy, Memory, and Honor,” by William Hageman, Chicago Tribune, March 28, 2002 “Mural Depicts Tragedy of 9/11” Art Section, Chicago Sun Times, 2002 Review by Dennis Raverty, Art Papers Magazine, July 2001 WTTW Channel 11...

Poli Negri III, Poli Negri and Louise Brooks Triptych, 2016 From The Dis-enchanted series Ink on paper Overall frame size: 20 in. H x 48 in. W x 1 in D Individual size: Image size:...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937) Pencil on paper 56 x 76 cm (22 x 30 inches) Signed below left end of stick, Yvon Vey Executed 1982 Provenance Studio of the Artist, Montpellier ...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Artist: Leroy Neiman (1921 - 2012) Title: Femling - Happy New Years Type: Original Material: Ink & Paper Year Produced: 1992 Medium: ink on paper Size: 8.25" x 13" Framed approx.: 20...

A dream landscape, this piece is ethereal and subtle. It would make a lovely addition to a bedroom or study. A figurative piece that's currently very on trend; the technique hints at...

Female Portrait is a modern artwork realized in 1965. Mixed colored drawing on paper. Signature and date on the lower margin.

Pastel on paper, signed (lower right), 50cm x 74cm (70cm x 92cm framed). The picture is good condition and the work comes directly from the artist. Painter, draughtsman and teacher...

Read the Signs, No. 13 Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2013 Signed lower right corner (see photo) Series: Read the Signs (22 watercolors) Exhibited: William Busta Gallery, Read the Signs, ...

French school circa 1880 Portrait of a boy holding a book graphite and white gouache on paper 39.5 x 32 cm oval view in good condition, slightly yellowed with age In its original ova...

Original Artwork of cyclists, made from specially treated coffee and then submitted to a further setting treatment so the artwork will last Complete size of sheet: 42 x 59.4 cm ADD...

Artist: Leroy Neiman (1921 - 2012) Title: Femling with A HOT Iron Type: Original Material: Ink & Paper Year Produced: 1992 Medium: ink on paper Size: 8.25" x 13" Framed Approx.: 20x...

In the Mirror 2 , nude, ultramarine tempera on colored paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series. Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio. 1s...

Self Love, nude, ultramarine tempera on colored paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series. An expressive line, revealing the essential of the female sensual body. ...

This drawing by Paul Cadmus is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Multi-Figure Nude Study n.d. Signed, u.r. Color crayon on paper 8 x 18.5 inches (20....

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937) Conté chalk on paper 76 x 56.5 cm (30 x 22 ½ inches) Signed lower middle Yvon Vey Executed in 1983 Provenance Studio of the artist, Montpellier ...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

"Untitled 28" (FRAMED) Pencil Drawing 21" x 18" inch by Antonio Pelayo Size unframed: 15.5" x 13.5 inch Medium: Pencil on Paper Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California...

Study for “The Breaker of Chains” Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018 Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo) For the Midtown (Cleveland) Mural, located on 28th and Euc...

Olivia Kemp’s ink drawings are both intricate and expansive, fruit of an intuitive stream-of-consciousness approach to drawing. She works in pen on paper w...

Untitled- Penis by Celso Castro-Daza Aquacolor Crayon on archival paper Image size: 48 in. H x 39.5 in. W Sheet size: 59.5 in. H x 44 in. W Unique 1996 Drawing on paper is his bas...

This is a drawing by Paul Cadmus offered by CLAMP in New York City. Five Female Nudes n.d. Signed, u.r. Color crayon on paper 10.5 x 18.5 inches (26.7 x 47 cm), sheet

Alexa Chung, Portrait, by Manuel Santelices Watercolor on paper Framed size: 7.7 in. H x 7 in. W Image size: 6.5 in. H x 6 in. W Framed 2016 The worlds of fashion, society, and p...

Untitled is a contemporary arteork realized by Julio Galan in 1988. Mixed colored pastel on paper. Hand signed and dated on the higher margin. Provenanc...

La Terremoto is a contemporary artwork realized by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra in 2013. Pencil on waxed paper. Hand signed on the back. Sandra Vasquez De La Horra was born in Viña ...

Joe "I try to get something accomplished everyday. I ask the Good Lord for Patience and Stregnth" Verso: "I was in for a technical violation. I spent 65 days, but I thank the Lor...

Stolen Moments (4) Ink on Yupo paper, 2019 Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image size: 14 x 11 inches Darius Steward is establishing hi...

Stolen Moments, Attitude Shift #1 (Emily and Sippy Cup Smiling) Watercolor on Twinrocker Multi Purpose paper, 2019 Signed with the artist's initials lower right Signed with the ar...

Llanto piramidal is a contemporary artwork realized by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra in 2013. Pencil on waxed paper. Hand signed on the back. Sandra Vasquez De La Horra was born in V...

O Watercolor on Yupo paper, 2018 Signed with the artist's initials (see photo) Note: The Series MORE? is centered around the artist’s family. There are two images of the artist’s s...

Line drawing from the figure model. Charcoal on Stonehenge paper. Framed in walnut wood with UV museum glass.

La Fuerza is a contemporary artwork realized by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra in 2014. Pencil on waxed paper. Hand signed on the back. Sandra Vasquez De La Horra was born in Viña del...

MB 702 (Contemporary Life Drawing of Male Nude by Mark Beard) graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper 30 x 19 inches unframed Con...

Solo el alma es verdadera is a contemporary artwork realized by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra in 2013. Pencil on waxed paper. Hand signed on the back. Sandra Vasquez De La Horra was ...

Baja la mascara is a contemporary artwork realized by Sandra Vásquez de la Horra in 2014. Pencil on waxed paper. Hand signed on the back. Sandra Vasquez De La Horra was born in Vi...

Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. This is how she writes about the drawing: In my intimate drawings, I capture what is closest to me – the private moments that I would hardly want to reveal. And yet, I choose to share them with my audience. The motif of the odalisque, a reclining woman, has long been a popular subject in art. Throughout history, numerous artists have embraced this theme, and some of their paintings depicting reclining women have become iconic, shaping the course of art in their respective eras. Art historians have extensively written about the influence of these works. Notably, the odalisques created by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, such as his renowned piece “La Grande Odalisque...

Untitled, 1997 by Celso Castro-Daza Pencil on archival paper Image size: 39 in. H x 48 in. W Sheet size: 45 in. H x 59 in. W Unique Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some ...

Amal, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, by Manuel Santelices Watercolor on paper Image size: 9 in. H x 12 in. W Unframed 2016 The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are ex...

William Anthony, born 1934, Forth Monmouth, NJ. and grew up in Washington State. Education 1958 Yale, New Haven, CT, B.A European History 1959-60 San Francisco Art Institute, CA 196...