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Figurative Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Balenciaga Fall, Proenza Schouler and Vetements fall, Triptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 47.7 cm (12 ³/₈ x 18 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile Pissarro
Executed circa 1925
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
Macking - Surf Collage Watercolor Purple Black Silver with Swarovski Crystals
By Axel Getz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Borrowing its title from surf terminology for ideal wave conditions, "Macking" plunges the viewer into a dynamic watercolor collage landscape sparkling with Swarovski crystals. Simil...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Man Becomes His Work - Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
This is one of many cartoons by Gahan Wilson where the subject morphs into the identity of his work. "Wish Not to Be Disturbed for the Duration of Winter - Playboy Cartoon from 1960...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
small woman on a big chair, figurative, colorful, botero-like, pastel, paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...
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1980s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Bodybuilder
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Graphite on colored paper.
This work is unique.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the V...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
French School 19th Century, Scenes from parisian life, three drawings signed
Located in Paris, FR
French School of the 19th Century
Scenes of the parisian life, three drawings
each one signed with the initials LV
Pencil on paper
Sizes of the drawings :
4.8 x 8 cm
4 x 6.5 cm
4....
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1870s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Mother and Child by Raymond Debieve, French Cubist Figurative Painting on Carton
Located in Atlanta, GA
Experience the profound beauty of "Mother and Child," a mixed media on cardboard artwork created in 1988 by the acclaimed artist Raymond Debiève. This stunning piece, crafted in a Cu...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Mid-Century Art Deco Minimalism Black & White Japan Geisha Latin Artist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Ode to Mineko Iwasaki (1970s Japanese Geisha)' is an original charcoal drawing by the American artist Jorge Ruiz-Martinez. The artist works in an art deco style, imagining graceful ...
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2010s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
insomniacs, 2015
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper.
Whimsical, imaginative , surreal, humor, folk, vivid, playful, evocative, fantasy, self taught, mentor style of Max Beckmann, Francisco Goya, Willem DeKooning, Philip Guston, Marsden Hartley, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
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2010s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Richard Westall Neoclassical Mythology Drawing 1800s pencil on paper
Located in Florence, IT
Drawing Pencil on paper, 17.7 x 26.7 inch; with gilded frame 28.3 x 37 inch
The scene is set on the seashore, in the part were the stormy sea is licking the land, made of a rocky an...
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Early 1800s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Fairies among the Lily Pads - Female Illustrator Fantasy
Located in Miami, FL
A turn-of-the-century fantasy illustration by female illustrator May Audubon Post features a charming fairy with expanded wings resting on Lilly s...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
A woman in jewels and a gossamer sari – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
A woman in jewels and a gossamer sari churns butter for ghee.
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on ...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Nur Jahan seated with a painted spice jar. Rajasthani School, 19th cent.
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink, 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (340 x 222 mm). Toning, handling creases and...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Original Sinatra on the Set
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original Graphite and Pen Sketch on Paper
12 1/4″ x 15 5/8″ Viewable
26″ x 29 1/2″ Framed
Circa 1960’s
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Set of 4 watercolours, mid 20th Century British by Harold Dearden, farm helpers
By Harold Dearden
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Harold Dearden (British, 1888 – 1962)
Farm helpers sorting a farm crop
Set of four watercolours
16.3/4 x 17.1/8in.
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1600’s Flemish Old Master Ink Wash Drawing Biblical Figures Group on paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure Studies
Attriubted to Cornelis Schut
(1597 - 1655) Flemish
ink drawing on paper, inscribed on mount
size: 4.75 x 7 inches
private collection, France
The painting is in overa...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Set of 4 artworks Mixed media on paper book
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An everyday situation, from our memory, from the memory of childhood in a non-place, that is to say, an enigmatic ephemeral place, a space that is delimited and that grows, that mult...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Portrait. 1966. watercolor on paper, 35.5x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1966. watercolor on paper, 35.5x30 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside...
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1960s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Personnage, Modern Crayon Drawing by Frantisek Kupka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871 -1957) - Personnage, Medium: Crayon on Paper, initaled lower right in pencil, Size: 8 x 3 in. (20.32 x 7.62 cm), Frame Size: 11.25 x 6.5 inches, Descr...
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1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Surrealist Figure in Space-scape, Surrealist Wax Crayon Drawing by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 -2002) - Surrealist Figure in Space-scape, Year: 1956, Medium: Wax Crayon on paper, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Frame Size: 20.5 x 18 inches...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon
Spring Bloom, Large Colorful Floral Watercolor by Gary Bukovnik
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gary Bukovnik, American (1947 -) - Spring Bloom, Year: 1983, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, Size: 45 x 71 in. (114.3 x 180.34 cm), Frame Size...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ancestry, female figure refers to African ancestry masks, dark, patterns, text
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio, furiously tearing and pasting image...
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2010s Assemblage Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Adhesive, Acrylic
New York City 11 original work on japanese paper color pastel collage charcoal
Located in Miami, FL
Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977)
'Untitled', 2017
mixed media on Japanese paper
12.3 x 17 in. (31 x 43 cm.)
ID: NAA-311
Hand-signed by author
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
Diadem, drawing and collage of female belly dancer, jewels
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Out of the Sun (Under the Racetrack Grandstand), Saratoga Springs, Anne Diggory
By Anne Diggory
Located in New York, NY
Anne Diggory (b. 1951)
Out of the Sun (Under the Racetrack Grandstand), 1978
Watercolor on paper
7 x 10 inches
Signed and dated lower left
Provenance:
Ac...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
The Little Mermaid - Fairy Tales - English Female Illustrator Pen and Ink
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering English Female Illustrator Helen Stratton masterfully renders in pen and ink a scene from "The Little Mermaid" in George Newnes's 1899 editi...
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1890s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Side Profile of Young African American Man with Black Hoodie
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This pastel portrait captures the side profile of a young African American man dressed in a black hoodie. The artist skillfully employs the pastel medium to bring out the rich textur...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Hand-Me-Downs - Street Children - Waif - Cockney Gutter Imps.
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her i...
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Early 1900s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
French Contemporary Art by Liubov Juravliova - Création de Mode
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour, ink on paper
Liubov Juravliova is a French painter born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1963 who lives and works in Argenteuil, near Paris, France She has been listed at Drouot...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Running Men
Located in London, GB
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 36cm x 44cm, (45cm x 53cm framed). The picture is behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
Throughout h...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Mughal School, 17th century Tiger Hunt near the Jahangir Maha, Agra
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
c 1690. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on light ...
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17th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
(After) "The Gleaners" Ink Drawing Painting Study
Located in Houston, TX
The original "The Gleaners" is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. ...
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19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Edwin, Marzo 14, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Edwin, Marzo 14, 2014 by Celso Castro
Black Crayon on archival paper
Image size: 39.2 H in. x 28 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Crayon
Deschmacker, Young Woman Lying By The Sea, Watercolor
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Paul-Alex Deschmacker, France, 1920s. This watercolor is in the classical period populated by mythological characters of Paul-Alex Deschmacker, itself becoming part of ...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study For "The Land Of Enchantment"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image Dimensions: Image 9" x 19"
Sheet Dimensions: 15" x 20.25"
Medium: Watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper laid to board
This is an unsigned study for the 38" H x 75" W oil pain...
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1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Board, Graphite
Drawing, Acrylic, Ink And Colored Pencils On Paper. "Old love, new love"
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
“Old love, new love” Drawing, acrylic, ink and colored pencils on paper. I developed a drawing technique based on natural pigments from leaves, flowers and bark with which I intend t...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Musician, The Lute Player, 1945 circa - Watercolour Painting by Duncan Grant
By Duncan Grant
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Estate of Paul Roche, the Artist's partner. Unsigned.
Duncan Grant was a British artist, designer and prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group.
His father...
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1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Jairo- Portrait. Watercolor and ink on archival paper drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jairo, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza
Watercolor and ink on archival paper
Image size: 53 H in. x 36 in. W
Unframed
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 foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
20th century British Drawing - Les Deux Landaises (Evening)
Located in London, GB
Pencil on paper
Signed 'G.L. Brockhurst’ (lower right)
Drawn c.1920
Collections:
The Fine Art Society, London, 1981;
Mr & Mrs Alan Fortunoff, acquired from the above;
Private col...
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Drawing with Flowers, signed and dedicated to Max Brun
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall's Drawing with Flowers (1969), signed and dedicated to Max Brun, is an intimate testament to their close friendship. This unique pen drawing, measuring 32 x 24 cm, holds...
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1960s Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Gel Pen
Snow Scene with Young Couple
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
William Thomas Smedley’s black and white watercolor presents a delicate winter scene featuring a young couple amidst freshly fallen snow. The crisp contrast between the deep blacks a...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Preciosa II
Located in BARCELONA, ES
The Preciosa series explores the intimacy of the female body through a subtle and deeply respectful gaze.
Using pencil on paper, Natalia Mancilla captures the softness of the skin, t...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Ephemeral
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the beau...
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2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Jaider Portrait. Watercolor, Ink and Pastel on Archival Paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jaider by Celso Castro-Daza
One of a kind
Watercolor, ink, and paster on an archival paper
Sheet Size: 19.50 H x 13.75 W
2018
Unframed
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, s...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pastel, Archival Ink
Vielle Femme en Petite Cape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Signed with stamp, J.V.
7-5/8" x 4-3/4" art
19" x 15-1/4" frame
Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963) French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Gouache
WINDMILL AND WORKERS (Large Pastel)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
B.J.O. NORDFELDT (Swedish/American 1878 – 1955)
(WINDMILL AND WORKERS). c.1900. Color pastel on colored paper, unsigned. 22 ¼ x 15”. Sheet: 24 ½ x 18 ¼”. In 1900 Nordfeldt studied ...
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Early 1900s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Final Stretch
By Maurice EMPI
Located in London, GB
'The Final Stretch', pastel on weighted art paper, by Maurice Empi (circa 1980s). One can almost feel the excitement of the horse race from this exuberant and colourful work of art. ...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Guglielmo Ciardi (Venetian master) - Late 19th century landscape painting
By Guglielmo Ciardi
Located in Varmo, IT
Guglielmo Ciardi (Venice 1842 - Venice 1917) - Badoere Market.
20 x 27.5 cm without frame, 44.5 x 51 cm with frame.
Pencil drawing on paper, within passe-partout in wooden frame.
...
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Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Farmhouse View, pencil sketch by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
Farmhouse view
Pencil sketch
18 x 25 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mining village o...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Drawing, Pastel, Ink and Colored Pencils. "Forest Inhabitants"
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Pastel, Pencil, Petal Flowers, Color and Ink on Paper.
The base of this drawing is 120g/m2 Fabriano paper. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree bark as the first...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
The grand punishment I.
By Fritz Aigner
Located in Wien, 9
ritz Aigner (1930–2005) war ein österreichischer Maler und Grafiker, geboren und gestorben in Linz. Er studierte an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien und wurde früh mit dem S...
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Late 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
L’Heure du goûter! by Jules-Émile Saintin
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jules-Émile Saintin
1829-1894 French
L’Heure du goûter!
(Snack Time!)
Signed "Jules-Émile Saintin" (lower right)
Charcoal and white chalk on paper
A tender moment unfolds as a young girl leans over her bowl of soup, savoring her midday snack with focus and delight. Her spoon rests beside a slice of bread on the polished tabletop, while a cup, perhaps filled with tea or chocolate, and a second piece of bread complete the simple yet cozy scene. Nearby, her stuffed toy lies temporarily forgotten atop a shawl, hinting at the world of play just briefly paused.
The setting is intricately detailed. The dining room showcases a marble fireplace adorned with a clock, fine porcelain and delicate cups. Saintin’s composition captures the quiet grace of the moment as well as the interplay of light and texture, skillfully rendered using only charcoal and white chalk. His ability to infuse luminosity into a monochrome drawing speaks to his refined technique and observational sensitivity. This work resonates with Saintin’s charming studies of children during his American period, such as A Little Girl Dozing Over Her Drawing (possibly a portrait of Jennie Walters), now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
Born in 1829 in Lemé, Saintin began painting at age 11 and was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris by 16. Trained under Martin Drölling and Édouard Picot, he became an accomplished portraitist and debuted at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1848, earning several medals.
In 1853, he moved to New York to work in a photography studio, soon dedicating himself fully to painting. He exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design—becoming a member in 1858—and gained a strong reputation for his portraits of American elites, as well as for his depictions of landscapes and Native American clothing...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Spanish folk dance Jota pastel drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Alfredo Opisso Cardona (1907-1980) - Jota - Pastel
Measures work 46x36cm.
Frame measures 65x55 cm.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Korean Contemporary Art by Shin Seung-Hun - Healing Greenland, Chunja-Go
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics, oil pastel on canvas
Shin Seung-Hun is a South-Korean artist born in 1979 who lives & works in Jeju Island, Korea. He is considered by critics as the new Korean Takashi Mu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
"Medieval Thoughts, Prague, " Alphonse Mucha, Czech Art Nouveau Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939)
Medieval Thoughts, circa 1890
Wash, ink, and watercolor on paper
11 x 9 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Phillips New York, 19th and 20th ce...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
View of the Village Church, pencil sketch by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
View of the village church
Pencil sketch
13 x 18 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mini...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
