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Medium: Gesso
DAMIEN HIRST
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor, gesso and gilding on BFK paper. Drawing of a medieval styled woman in front of a pharmacy/restaurant and bar. Satire.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold Leaf

Untitled (mama study) II
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon, Ink, Mixed Media

Portrait of Joan Didion, Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Portrait o Joan Didion, by Manuel Santelices Acrylic on gesso panel Image size: 14 in. H x 11 in. W Unframed 2023 The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored throu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Panel, Acrylic, Gesso

Freya (Seated Backwards), Mixed media on grey board
Located in London, GB
Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...
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2010s Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Other Medium, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Pen, Felt Pen, Permanent M...

The Butterfly /// Antique Victorian Watercolor Girl Lady Landscape Romantic Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jan Jacobus Matthijs Damschröder (Dutch, 1825-1905) Title: "The Butterfly" *Signed by Damschröder lower right Circa: 1880 Medium: Original Gouache/Watercolor Painting on paper Framing: Framed in a gold-leafed mat and Victorian gesso frame...
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1880s Victorian Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Watercolor, Gesso

Moon Dancer
Located in London, GB
Discover the enthralling "Moon Dancer" drawing crafted by Rafael Melendez in 2020. This medium-sized drawing on paper seamlessly fuses various art forms, epitomizing the artist's rem...
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2010s Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gesso, Acrylic Polymer, Watercolor, Pencil, Archival Paper

Natasha (Sitting), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment
Located in London, GB
Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Womenswear. There, he tutored many contemporary greats, including John Galliano, Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane, Wes Gordon, Zac Posen and Hussein Chalayan. Examples of Tangye’s portraits are held in many important collections, both public and private, including the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Harvard University and London’s National Portrait Gallery. Throughout his teaching career Tangye quietly developed a particularly idiosyncratic art practice. By employing a decisive line with bold applications of richly layered materials, Tangye explores the nuances of the human form in an effort to expose his subjects’ true essence and energy. — Howard Tangye Natasha (Sitting), 2012 Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment 100 x 70 cm (39.37 x 27.55 in) (signed) (unframed) — This portrait shows Natasha, an ex-student and model. Here she’s posed in Howard’s studio wearing a look from Louise Gray’s S/S 2013 collection. The collection featured headwear by Stephen Jones, the renowned British milliner who created the cut-out plexiglass fascinator Natasha wears here. This work hails from a series commissioned by Dan Thawley, director of “A Magazine Curated By” for the edition guest edition by Jones who dedicated his issue to Anna Piaggi...
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2010s Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gesso, Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayo...

Emilie (Sitting, Legs Out - Pinks), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment
Located in London, GB
Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gesso, Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayo...

Jake W. (Before Paris II), Mixed media on Fabriano paper
Located in London, GB
Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, includi...
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2010s Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Felt Pen, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil, Graphite, Gesso, Pigment,...

Jo Haran, Season End, Original floral painitng
Located in Deddington, GB
Season End by Jo Haran [2020] original Watercolour, gouache and gesso Image size: H:65 cm x W:49 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:66.5 cm x W:53 cm x D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gesso, Watercolor, Gouache

Mid Century Modernist Seated Nude Figure Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract nude figurative drawing by George Giusti, (Italian 1908-1990). India ink on gesso patterned drawing paper created in 1949. Signed “George Giusti 1949” in the lower right corner. Presented in a distressed giltwood frame with glass and a light pink and grey mat. Image size: 15.75”H x 10”W This extraordinary artist was born in 1908 in Milan, Italy, of a Swiss father and an Italian mother. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and did graphic design there before deciding to move to Zürich, Switzerland, where he opened a design studio, which he operated for seven years. While on a visit to the United States in 1938, Giusti was induced to stay by the several excellent commissions that were offered to him, including the opportunity to collaborate with Herbert Matter on the design of the Swiss pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Giusti is well known in Europe and America for his architecture and sculpture, as well as his graphics. He studied architecture in Milan and worked at it from time to time, producing stunning examples of contemporary design. For more than four decades in America, and before that in Italy and Switzerland, George Giusti’s graphic designs have graced the covers of Time, Fortune, Holiday and other major magazines, as well as most of the publications of the United States Information Agency, and Giusti had a twelve-year design association with Geigy Pharmaceuticals. He has done advertising and graphic designs, illustrations, trademarks, client and employee publications, package designs for major corporations, and drawings. He has succeeded to the extent that his designs are consistently ahead of their time. It is Giusti’s expressed intention to build a bridge between fine art and art for commercial use. He disdains the terms “fine” and “commercial” as defining a distinction which should not exist. Art is art, he believes, whatever its purported use. Exhibitions: George Giusti’s work has been exhibited in America’s large cities and in most of the capitals of the world. His portfolio has been published in Graphis, Switzerland, Idea, Japan, Gebrauschsgraphik, Germany, Pagina Art, Italy, and Communication Art, and The United States. Awards and Affiliations: Over the years, Giusti has garnered more than ten gold and silver medals and eighty other awards and citations. He is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Alliance Graphique Internationale, International Center for Graphic Art (Typographic Art...
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1940s Modern Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Gesso, Paper

TOWER BRIDGE
Located in New York, NY
watercolor, gesso, and gilding on BFK paper. Gold Leaf. Depiction of the Tower Bridge in London. Medieval figures.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold Leaf

Regeneration -- Grasses w/ Fire Map 4
Located in New Orleans, LA
Davidoff creates drawings, paintings, prints and installations that consider intricate patterns in nature and the overlaying systems used to observe, map and define organic landscape...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Wood Panel, Charcoal, Gesso, Graphite

Regeneration -- Grasses w/ Fire Map 5
Located in New Orleans, LA
Davidoff creates drawings, paintings, prints and installations that consider intricate patterns in nature and the overlaying systems used to observe, map and define organic landscape...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gesso Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Gesso, Graphite, Watercolor, Wood Panel

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