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Medium: Board
Juventus Football Player, UEFA Champions League Triumph, 1996. Cm 72 x 50
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus Football Player, UEFA Champions League Triumph, 1996. Cm 72 x 50 Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96 Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Illustration Board, Cardboard, Carbon Pencil

1944 Searing Broadway Drama, "Anna Lucasta"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left This piece is on 11.00" x 15.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 8.50" x 10.00." Caricatur...
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1940s Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Woman in Red Swimsuit Perched on Diving Board, Three White Doves Around Her
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Unsigned
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1950s Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Board

Card Game
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Board Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.50" Illustration of a man and a woman playing cards. At bottom it reads "Of course you can tell fortunes with cards". This il...
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20th Century Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Board, Ink, Pen

Card Game
Card Game
$2,900
The Strange Fairy - Oil on Board - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Strange Fairy is an original contemporary artwork realized by a European Artist in the second half tf 20th Century. Mixed colored oil on board. Hand signed by the artist with ...
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1970s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Board

Secret Garden 1 - Contemporary, Flower, White, Black, Drawing, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Secret Garden 1, 2019 Black ink on white cardboard (signed) 39 3/8 H x 27 9/6 W in. 100 H x 70 W cm The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of micr...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Cardboard

Eric Blore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Illustration Board Signature: Unsigned Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of 1930s English character actor Eric Blore, best known for his film roles in ...
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1930s Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Illustration Board

Untitled IV, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled IV, 1992 by Enrique Grau Graphite on ight cardboard Image size: 17 in H x 14 in W Frame size: 32 in H × 28.5 in W × 2 D in Signed and dated in th...
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1980s Modern Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Cardboard

Femme Paysage by Grégoire Mathias – Graphite Drawing of a Woman
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Femme Paysage Graphite on cardboard 41.5 × 21 cm In Femme Paysage, Grégoire Mathias renders a seated woman from behind in delicately worked graphite, transforming the folds of her...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Cardboard, Pencil

Dame Laura Knight, signed, charcoal on board drawing of behind theatre scene
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A beautifully composed drawing of 'A Barry Jackson Xmas Play' by Dame Laura Knight executed in 1921. The work is signed and titled and is in good condition. The full details are as...
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20th Century Academic Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Tony Award Winning Actors, Arthur Kennedy, David Wayne & Sam Wanamaker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Triple Portrait by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), of Tony Award Winning Actor...
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1940s Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

“Holiday Carriage Ride”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache artwork on heavy card by the American artist, Justin Kilbourne. Signed lower left by the artist. Condition is excellent. Dated and artist address stamped verso. This artwork was used as a Christmas card by the Manville Greeting Card Company in 1980. Presently unframed but recently professionally matted. Overall matted measurements are 10 by 8 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York collector. Justin Kilbourne was a student of H.A. Wessel, and senior illustrator and designer at Gibson Greeting Cards. He had four watercolors commissioned by President Johnson...
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1980s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard

Vintage Bi-Plane Watercolor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage bi-plane
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20th Century Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

1944 Untitled Portrait Representing a Mexican Labor Protest, Signed M.S. Rivera
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1944 Social Realist, untitled caricature portrait representing a Mexican labor protest, signed M.S. Rivera. Below the portrait is written a Mexican song or poem relating to labor ...
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1940s Modern Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Flapper Era Woman with Feathered Headdress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1920s Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Artist Board Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00" Signature: Unsigned The 1920’s painting most likely is the original cover art...
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1920s Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board

The Vanishing Men
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1919 Medium: Charcoal on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 15.20" x 18.50" "The Vanishing Men," November 29, 1919.
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1910s Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Board, Charcoal

WPA Post Office Mural Study American Scene Regionalism Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
WPA Post Office Mural Study American Scene Regionalism Social Realism Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901 - 1980) Oil Riggers, Mural Study Image: 6 1/2 x 37 inches Watercolor and egg tem...
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1930s American Modern Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard

Respect Expect (2022) by Marisa V.R., graphic feminist pop, daisy, pocket knife
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Respect Existence or Expect Resistance (silver)" (2022) by street artist Marisa Velázquez-Rivas 9.25 x 9.25 x 2.25" Figurative, graphic wall art. La...
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2010s Street Art Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Foam Board

Secret Garden 2 - Contemporary, Drawing, Flower, Black, White, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Secret Garden 2, 2019 White ink on black cardboard (signed) 39 3/8 H x 27 9/6 W in. 100 H x 70 W cm The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of micr...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Cardboard, Ink

"Hollow" hand-drawn illustration, female figure, architecture, surrealism
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Hollow" is an original artwork made from ink on paper mounted on board by Eva Redamonti. This piece measures 12.75"h x 18.5"w. This work relates to my childhood ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Board

Untitled 1 - Series Final Fantasy, Minutiae Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in ...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Cardboard

Secret Garden 3 - 21st Century, Flowers, Drawing, Black, White, Contemporary
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Secret Garden 3, 2019 White ink on black cardboard 39 3/8 H x 27 9/6 W in. 100 H x 70 W cm The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic o...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Cardboard

Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932). Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right. Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left. Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing. Mat size: 22"H x 16"W Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane. Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York. When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others. It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5. After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann. In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village. Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
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1930s American Impressionist Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board

Nude - XXI century, Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing PROVENANCE Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery. The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist. The Gallery o...
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Early 2000s Realist Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Cardboard, Chalk, Pencil

“Winter Evening”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival Molvin arches paper by the well known American illustrator Fred Sweney. The scene depicts Central Park in New York City in a winter landscape with figures in conversation under an illuminated lamp post. Signed lower right. Titled verso in pencil with American Scene magazine #32 and page 30...
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1960s American Realist Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

Doble Standard 14. From The Doble Standard Series. Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The more transcendental the representation, the more it tends to evoke it through its prodigies. Such is the case of the Double standard series in the words of the artist "It is a process of visual archeology through a search for human representations conditioned by their ritual, aesthetic or utilitarian meaning where a resignification of beauty patterns is proposed, a game with female representation with its multiple meanings, functions and forms” James Bonachea...
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2010s Abstract Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Cardboard

1985 Joan Collins Portrait by Louis Nadalini
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful 1985 pencil drawing of actress Joan Collins by American artist Louis Nadalini (Italian, 1927-1995). Signed and dated "Nadalini 85" lower right. Unframed. Image, 20"H x 16"L. ARTFORUM article: Louis Nadalini In the last couple of seasons, San Francisco has lost several of its galleries. Some others have just recently begun operating but often with an entirely new group of artists. Some members of those apparently secure gallery stables that went out of business have found their way into other stables, but a larger group is without a place to show. I decided to look into such a person’s studio in my endeavor to find out what is really happening in the Bay Area art world. I went to see Louis Nadalini. His latest painting continues with the lattice of slats protruding forward with two variations of the painting painted on the sides of the slats which are viewable when standing to either side. This was always a very abstract method and he had quite often painted pure abstractions which centered quietly into hypnotic devices of exceptional color richness, but which gave a kaleidoscopic change as you moved past it. Untitled #42 (the most recent painting) has subject matter and was done in a much more painterly way. The side variations were flat in color, and there were some elements seen only in the side views, a skeleton’s arm and a black hand, for example. Nadalini says that he may abandon the lattice altogether if it gets in his way, but so far it seems to work better than it did with the abstractions. He is enthusiastic about the work he is doing, felt very free about making changes, and was, at the same time still happy about work from several years ago and unwilling to think that older work and new work should not be exhibited together. He hasn’t been thinking about galleries for a while. Nadalini goes to sea periodically which gives him time for contemplation as well as for renewing his resources. by —Knute Stiles...
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1980s American Impressionist Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Cardboard, Pencil

Attractive Young Woman Sitting in Chair and Looking Upwards in Domestic Setting
Located in Miami, FL
Female Illustrator of the Golden Age Alice Barber Stephens renders in an academic style and women sitting in a chair and responding to something outside of the frame. Signed lower left. Most likely done for a major newsstand magazine like Harper's, Century or Scribner's Monthly. Work is framed under glass in a simple black wood frame. Perhaps period. Matt is new. Frame size: 20.5 x 14.5 From: Wikipedia Alice Barber Stephens (July 1, 1858 – July 13, 1932) was an American painter and engraver, best remembered for her illustrations. Her work regularly appeared in magazines such as Scribner's Monthly, Harper's Weekly, and The Ladies Home Journal. Early life and education Alice Barber was born near Salem, New Jersey. She was the eighth of nine children born to Samuel Clayton Barber and Mary Owen, who were Quakers. She attended local schools until she and her family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At age 15 she became a student at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art & Design), where she studied wood engraving. The Women's Life Class (1879), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was admitted to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876 (the first year women were admitted), studying under Thomas Eakins. Among her fellow students at the Academy were Susan MacDowell, Frank Stephens, David Wilson Jordan, Lavinia Ebbinghausen, Thomas Anshutz, and Charles H. Stephens (whom she would marry). During this time, at the academy, she began to work with a variety of media, including black-and-white oils, ink washes, charcoal, full-color oils, and watercolors. In 1879, Eakins chose Stephens to illustrate an Academy classroom scene for Scribner's Monthly. The resulting work, Women's Life Class, was Stephens' first illustration credit. New Woman As educational opportunities were made more available in the nineteenth century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior by the art world, and to help overcome that stereotype women became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "New Woman". Artists then, "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman, both by drawing images of the icon and exemplifying this emerging type through their own lives." Alice Barber Stephens, The Women Business, oil, 1897, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania One example of overcoming women stereotypes was Stephens' Woman in Business from 1897, which showed how women could focus not only in the home, but also in the economic world.[8] As women began to work, their career choices broadened and illustration became a commendable occupation. People's ideas about education and art started to merge, and the outcome of a certain sensitivity to the arts began to be seen as uplifting and educational. By using illustration as a means to further their practices, women were able to fit the traditional gender role while still being active in their pursuits for the "New Woman". According to Rena Robey of Art Times, "The early feminists began to leave the home to participate in clubs as moral and cultural guardians, focused on cleaning up cities and helping African Americans, impoverished women, working children, immigrants, and other previously ignored groups." Stephens took advantage of the explosion of illustration opportunities, including the opportunity to work from home. Women's education Edwin Forrest House, formerly the home of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. Throughout the period before the civil war, textile and other decorative work became acceptable occupations for those who aspired to be in the middle class. The Philadelphia School of Design for Women, founded in 1848 by Sarah Worthington Peter was first among a group of women's design schools established in the 1850s and 1860s; others appeared in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati. It began as a charitable effort to train needy and deserving young women in textile and wallpaper design, wood engraving, and other salable artistic skills, providing a means for training women who needed wage work. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) was established in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush...
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Early 1900s Academic Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Board, Charcoal

“Sleigh Ride”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original artwork for Manville Card Company. Circa 1975. Condition is very good. Watercolor and gouache on heavy card stock. Will be sold with original Christmas card with notations. Sheet size 9 by 10...
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1970s Other Art Style Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Watercolor, Cardboard

“Sleigh Ride”
“Sleigh Ride”
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Doble Standard 10. From The Doble Standard Series. Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The more transcendental the representation, the more it tends to evoke it through its prodigies. Such is the case of the Double standard series in the words of the artist "It is a process of visual archeology through a search for human representations conditioned by their ritual, aesthetic or utilitarian meaning where a resignification of beauty patterns is proposed, a game with female representation with its multiple meanings, functions and forms” James Bonachea...
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2010s Abstract Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Cardboard

Portrait - Original Mixed Media Artwork by Maurice Lourday - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil, pastel and watercolor drawing on creamy cardboard, realized in 1927 by Maurice Lourday (1860-1934). Titled on the lower. In very good conditions, ex...
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1920s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor, Cardboard

Pygmalion - Sculptor Studio II - 21st Century, Female, Couple, Nude, Flowers
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Pygmalion - Sculptor Studio II, 2015 collage on cardboard 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in. 70 H x 100 W cm The artist's reference to fundamental myths of humanity and their analysis from th...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Cardboard

Oriental Landscapes With Palm Trees And Arab Houses. 1 Half Of The 20th Century.
Located in Firenze, IT
Fauve landscape with palm trees and Arab houses. 1 half of the 20th century. Gouache paintings on cardboard. Paintings is signed with monogram. Dimensions with Passepartout 45.5cm x ...
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard

?! Apollo Daphne - Contemporary, Love, Myth, 21st Century, Green, Violet, Yellow
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
?! Apollo Daphne, 2017 Acrylic, acrylic marker, collages on cardboard (signed, front right corner) 20 5/64 H x 28 11/32 W in. 51 H × 72 W cm The artist...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Cardboard

Cell 02 - Contemporary, Black, White, Drawing, Conceptual
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Cell 01, 2019 Black ink on white cardboard (signed) 39 3/8 H x 27 9/6 W in. 100 H x 70 W cm The drawings signed by Alina Aldea reveal the meticulousness and perfection of microscopi...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Cardboard

Afternoon - Contemporary, Orange, Yellow, Male, Sun, Figurative, Summer, Sunbath
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Afternoon, 2015 Collage on cardboard 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in. 70 H x 100 W cm On a orange background a naked men is lying on the bed. In a very relaxed and ...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Cardboard

Untitled - XXI Century, Gouache Painting, Figurative, Portrait
Located in Warsaw, PL
ALEKSANDER GRZYBEK He was born in Białystok. He studied artistic education in the studio of painting of prof. Marian Bogusz and Andrzej Kołodziejek. He graduated in 1979. His works c...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Cardboard

"I Don't Know Either, " Oil Pastel on Canvas Board Abstract by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"I Don't Know Either" is an original oil pastel drawing on canvas board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts multiple abstracted faces. 40...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Board

Abstract Expressionist CoBrA Style Figure. Chalk on Card.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist CoBrA style chalk on paper of a human figure attributed to French artist, A Nuchy. The work is unsigned but was acquired along with ...
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1970s Outsider Art Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk, Cardboard

Nightie Night - 5.25" x 9.25", Original Artwork, White, Beige, Framed
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
In this original artwork, focus is placed on the blending of delicate detail and expressive brush work. A tone on tone texture is built up in the background through the use of paint ...
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Pencil, Illustration Board

Whimsical Illustration Hiking Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country hiking signed "W. Steig" Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938. Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed. In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper. William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988. Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each. Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage. In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator. Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand." Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me." According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
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1930s Naturalistic Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board

My Husbands Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Black Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
Cuties Cartoon Strip - E. Simms Campbell My Husband Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Cartoonist,
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1940s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Board

Whimsical Fishing Illustration Cartoon 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one of a fisherman signed "W. Steig" Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938. Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed. In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper. William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988. Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each. Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage. In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator. Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand." Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me." According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist...
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1930s American Modern Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Located in Jersey City, NJ
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Hompage Magritte, Called Woman Seen From Behind, Original Gouache
Located in Stockholm, SE
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Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative female nude crayon on cardboard drawing by Leszek 'Maestro' Zegalski. Artwork depicts a woman with head of a fantastic creature, she has wings. This drawing i...
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Located in Chicago, IL
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1930s American Modern Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Located in Soquel, CA
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Soviet Union pro-natalist communist Bulgarian propaganda poster design
Located in London, GB
To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Bulgarian pro-natalist propaganda poster design (circa 1950s) Gouache on board 17 x 12 cm After a Communist takeover in 1945, Bulgaria was a Soviet ally during the Cold War, and maintained good relationships with Russia until the Revolutions of 1989. From 1945 to 1948, the country became entrenched within the Soviet sphere of influence under the control of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) which oversaw a program of Stalinization in the late 1940s and 1950s. Both countries are Slavic nations, and are bound together by a common Orthodox Christian...
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Located in Fort Washington, PA
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1940s Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Landscape - Mixed Media on Cardboard by Sun Jingyuan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
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1970s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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"Fine Manners" Movie Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor, Pen & Ink on Board Dimensions: 16.25" x 11.25" Paramount Pictures Movie Poster Illustrated American Artist
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20th Century Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1891 Medium: Watercolor on Board Dimensions: 13.50" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left
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Boat - Watercolor by Michele Cascarano - 2010s
Located in Roma, IT
Boats is an original drawing in Watercolor on paper applied on cardboard. realized by Michele Cascarano. The state of preservation of the artwork is good. Hand-signed and dated on ...
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Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
F. N. Souza - Untitled Marker on Paper, 11 x 8.5 inches Marker on Tracing Paper Pasted on Board, 12.5 x 9 inches ( Set of 2 works ) (Unframed Delivered) Francis Newton Souza was born in 1924 in Saligao, Goa. After losing his father at a very young age and being afflicted by a serious bout of small pox, he vowed to go about life his own way. Souza was expelled for participating in the Quit India Movement while studying at the Sir J J School of Art in Mumbai. In 1947, he founded the Progressive Artists' Group along with S H Raza...
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1960s Modern Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Board

Composition - Original Ink and Watercolor by Bertrand Mogniat - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original drawing in china ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos in 1940. This Artwork is depicted through strong and confident stroke...
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1940s Modern Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Cardboard, Ink, Watercolor

No title
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
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Located in Mississauga, Ontario
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2010s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Landscape - Mixed Media on Cardboard by Sun Jingyuan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing artwork in mixed media on cardboard, realized by Sun Jingyuan in 1970s. The state of preservation is very good. Sheet di...
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1970s Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Cardboard, Charcoal, Oil Pastel

Portrait of Man - Tempera on Board - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of man is an original contemporary artwork realized by a European Artist in the second half of 20th Century. Mixed colored tempera on board. Hand signed by the artist with...
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1970s Contemporary Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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