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Medium: Graphite
THE ENDURING SPIRIT NEW YORK
Located in Aventura, FL
Original graphite, watercolor on paper. Hand signed top left front by Richard Lindner. Artwork size 14 x 12.25 inches. Frame size approx. 22.75 x 20.75 inches.
Artwork is in o...
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Mid-20th Century Pop Art Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
$31,600 Sale Price
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Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin Strathmore paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenanc...
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1960s Renaissance Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
$1,880 Sale Price
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Mid-Century Modern Abstract Pen & Pencil Drawing by Taos Artist James Meek
By James Meek
Located in Denver, CO
This striking mid-century modern pen and pencil drawing by acclaimed Taos-based artist James Meek (b. 1928) features a bold geometric abstract composition that exemplifies his master...
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20th Century Pointillist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite
Mid 20th century black and white drawing landscape trees houses figures signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Monkey Island at Washington Park Zoo" is an original graphite and charcoal drawing on paper by Francesco Spicuzza. It depicts a number of figures gazing out at a monkey enclosure at a zoo. The artist signed the piece in the lower left.
8 1/2" x 11 3/4" art
17 1/4" x 21 1/8" frame
Francesco J. Spicuzza, born in Sicily on July 23, 1883, came to America at the age of 8. He supported himself as a fruit peddler until a newspaperman gave him $4 a week to go to school. He attended classes at the Milwaukee Art Students League, where he studied under Alexander Mueller. There he learned to paint in the then-fashionable "Munich School" technique, with detailed realism in heavy browns and grayed-out hues. Spicuzza completed eight grades in four years, and then in 1911, three businessmen advanced him enough money to allow him to study in New York under artist and teacher John Carlson. It was during this time that Spicuzza changed his style of painting, developing an impressionistic use of color, form and atmospheric renditions. After a period of grinding poverty, one of Spicuzza's pictures won a major New York competition. It was the first of 60 wins, both in the U.S. and Paris. He became a fashionable painter, and many of the leading collections have his work. Spicuzza's typical works were beach scenes, still life, landscapes and portraits done in pastels, oils, ink, charcoal and watercolors. Much of his work traced the history of Milwaukee in the early 1900s. He was probably best known for his scenes of women and children splashing in...
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1950s Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA. 8 x 10 ¾ inches. Graphite on paper, 1936. Initialed on lower right. The play opens October 14, 1936 at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre.
Handwritten title, date, and signature on lower center of original matte which is now affixed to the verso. Inscription on lower right of matte reads, "For Prince & Barbara - Jo Mielziner...
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1930s Performance Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Billie the Brownie Laughing' original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a growing spring of a tree. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper
8 x 5.75 inches, artwork
14 x 12 inches, frame
Stamped with artist signature, below image, lower left.
Presented in a new custom frame with a gold-finish neoclassical wood moulding, archival matting and mounting materials; and UV glass to inhibit fading.
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
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1940s Modern Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
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1950s Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Japanese Art Figurative Painting, Love for a street-walker, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
LOVE FOR A STREET-WALKER
Crayon, graphite, pencil on paper.
Measurements: (H) 76 x (W) 56 cm.
Attractive portrait of an Edo prostitute hurrying through the streets. She wears a black kimono over layers of colored kimono, tucking her hand into the "obi" at her waist. A white scarf is draped over her head, the edge caught between her teeth, and loose wisps of hair framed her face. There is an impressive contrast between the black kimono and the yellow-orange of collars, sleeves and "obi", balancing the composition the pastel pink of the scarf that covers her head.
This image is part of the "bijin-ga" series, Pretty Women, drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print "Love for a street-walker" (1795), 37,2 x 24,6 cm. The British Musem. London, UK.
The artist reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and from the original publisher ("Tsutaya", climbing leaf)), between the two, the signature of Mario BGil written in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the "bijing-ga" series, Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the family business, away from commercial art galleries. In 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him and he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Boy Launching a Sailboat
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Graphite and charcoal on paper signed by the artist.
7.38" x 8.63"
16.75" x 15.5" frame
Framed to conservation standards. Float mounted on 100% cotton matboard and glazed in UF5 Plexiglass that filters 99% of UV Rays to ensure the preservation of the piece. All housed in a bold miter jointed bevel frame in distressed silver finish with reflective accents.
Francesco J. Spicuzza, born in Sicily on July 23, 1883, came to America at the age of 8. He supported himself as a fruit peddler until a newspaperman gave him $4 a week to go to school. He attended classes at the Milwaukee Art Students League, where he studied under Alexander Mueller. There he learned to paint in the then-fashionable "Munich School" technique, with detailed realism in heavy browns and grayed-out hues. Spicuzza completed eight grades in four years, and then in 1911, three businessmen advanced him enough money to allow him to study in New York under artist and teacher John Carlson.
It was during this time that Spicuzza changed his style of painting, developing an impressionistic use of color, form and atmospheric renditions. After a period of grinding poverty, one of Spicuzza's pictures won a major New York competition. It was the first of 60 wins, both in the U.S. and Paris. He became a fashionable painter, and many of the leading collections have his work. Spicuzza's typical works were beach scenes, still life, landscapes and portraits done in pastels, oils, ink, charcoal and watercolors. Much of his work traced the history of Milwaukee in the early 1900s. He was probably best known for his scenes of women and children splashing in the waves...
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Mid-20th Century Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite
Arnold Rönnebeck Graphite on Paper Drawing, "I’m a Little Blackbird", ca. 1924
Located in New York, NY
Arnold Rönnebeck, 1885 – 1947
I’m a Little Blackbird..., c. 1924
Graphite on paper
Estate stamp
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1920s Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"Landscape with Two Figures" original monotype and drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this monotype print, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene of two young men relaxing within a pastoral landscape. On the back of the print, Spicuzza has left her prepar...
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1950s Modern Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Monotype
"Woman in Coat & Fancy Hat, " Graphite Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman in Coat & fancy Hat" is a graphite drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza. An older woman is sketched as she stands. She is wearing a winter coat and quite...
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1950s Modern Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Self Portrait
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Value Study of Woman's Head in Profile
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite
Nude and Interior No. 1
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of Woman in Floral
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Study of Model's Head
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Karagoto of the Chojiya, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga Series I (Nº1)
Title: Karagoto of The Chojiya
Head and bust portrait of the beautiful courtesan Karagoto, of the Chojiya House, who appears looking to her left while drying her right ear with the sleeve of her yukata (a fine summer garment, normally made of cotton that was normally used after bathing). The wide sleeve falls from her ear covering her right breast and leaving the left one uncovered.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Night Life 2
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Irving Norman. "Night Life 2" is a social surrealist drawing, graphite on paper in black and white by Post-War artist Irving Norman. The...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink on Paper Musical Notation Drawing - Bourrée I 418.031
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Bourrée I 418.031 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink and Graphite on Paper, Musical Notation Drawing
Bourrée I 418.031 is from Linda Stein's Profiles Notation series--draw...
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2010s Feminist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Temptation
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Ink
Parlor No. 2, 1973
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Ink
4th of July, No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Ink
4th of July No. 2, 1983
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Ink
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Tatsumi Roko, Edo Period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXVIII (Nº 28)
Title: Tatsumi Roko
Portrait of Tatsumi Roko, a geisha of the pleasure quarters in the Edo period. The image belongs to the series Renowed Beauties Likened to the Six Inmortal Poets.
The popular top-class geishas of the day , known as “oiran”, were depicted in this type of print. In ukiyo-e woodblock prints, this close-up portrait view of the upper body is known as an okubi-e (bust portrait).
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
"Drawing for The Sponsor, " Graphite on Paper, 2019
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Drawing for The Sponsor," this work by Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald envisions an advertisement by Southport Tool and Die, a Chicago company from the 1940s and th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Board, Graphite
Cloud (Atlantic tropical cyclons 1954-2021)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein.
Always working with graphite and charcoal, Ro...
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2010s Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Untitled (Female Figure) [Draped Standing Nude]
By Jared French
Located in New York, NY
Literature:
Alfonso Panzetta, Jared French by Jared French: 600 Unpublished Works from the Artist's Italian Years (Turin, Italy: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2010), no. 62, p. 76, full-pa...
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1930s Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
![Untitled (Female Figure) [Draped Standing Nude]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_9323/1588304606453/10_French_JFRE0003_Untitled_Female_Figure_Draped_Standing_Nude_CROPPED_1200_master.jpg?width=240 "chrissy tiber nudes")
Last Night
Located in Columbia, MO
Last Night
Ink, graphite, and oil pastel on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite, Oil Pastel
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.002
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.002 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.002 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and painting...
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1970s Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
$2,800 Sale Price
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Four Figures and a Shield
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain."
--Thaddeus Radell
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2010s Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Takashimayaoisha, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Beijing-ga Series XXX (nº 30)
Title: “Takashimaohisa”
Ohisa, along with Okita and Tomimoto Toyohina, were the three most famous beauties of the time. The first two were waitresses...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
The Space of Absence
Located in Montreal, Quebec
100 sheets of A-4 sized paper.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein.
Always workin...
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2010s Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Incoming Rain, Bali, 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Incoming rain, Den Pasar, Bali 1937
Signed with initials, dated and titled, bottom right
Black chalk and ink on paper, 42 by 46 cm
Literature:
Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O...
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1930s Art Nouveau Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative painting, Reflective Love, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-Ga Series XII (Nº 12)
Title: Reflective Love.
Lovely portrait of a beauty looking over her shoulder.
In Reflective Love (from the Utamaro...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
A.F. Remmett - 20th Century Graphite Drawing, Zacharias And Ezechiel
Located in Corsham, GB
A pair of well rendered studies from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. The drawings show the Biblical figures of Zacherias and Ezechiel, seated in an ornate pendentive, surrounded by ch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Stehender Akt / Standing Nude
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
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20th Century Modern Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative painting, Courtesan Hanaôgi, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga Series XXVI (Nº 26)
Title: Hanaôgi of the Ôgiya House
Hanaôgi, one of the most famous courtesans of the Edo period working in the Ôgiya House, an exclusive brothel in the Yoshiwara appears beautifully dressed holding a writing brush on her right hand and a decorated piece of paper in the shape of a “cartuche”, maybe to write a message of love for a client.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, The fickle type, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-ga Series XXII (Nº 22)
Title: THE FLICKLE TYPE
Upper half of the body of a woman in yukata (summer kymono) with part of her chest bare. Depicted just after a bath, she is turning her head and drying her hands with the towel hang on her shoulder. Her just-washed hair is tied around an ornate hairpin, the hair style called bai-mage (spiral-shell chignon).
The unkempt hair of the nape and the movement of the hands one on the other are clear examples of Utamaro's mastery, who had an exceptionally observant eye for women.
The Fickle ( or Fancy-free) Type is flirting with more than one member of the opposite sex
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Bijin Ôkubi, Edo Period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXIX (Nº 29)
Title: Bijin Ôkubi
Upper torso portrait of a Japanese beauty, depicted with a graceful hand gesture and an ornate headdress. Her soft round features contrast with the colourful sharp angles of the collars of her kimono.
Her elongated oval face, straight nose and red butterfly lips are typical of the prototype of a beautiful woman, Bijin-ga. Her upper torso and face occupying the central section of the picture show a composition type that became known in time as Large-head pictures, or Okubi-e; compositions with which Utamaro became a model for generations of woodblock artists.
This image is part of the Bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative painting, Love for a farmer´s wife, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga Series XVII (nº 17)
Title: Love for a farmer´s wife
Sensual portrait of a young and beautiful farmer´s wife. Her cheerful and careless gesture, showing her chest between the open folds of the neckline of his humble dress; the strands of hair falling on her temples, and her smiling gesture denote the state of happiness enjoying love, in a well-deserved break from her hard work.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Somenosuke of the Matsubaya Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXV (Nº 25)
Title: SOMENOSUKE OF THE MATSUBAYA
Somenosuke of house Matsubaya, known as a youthful courtesan who quickly rose through the ranks of popularity is shown producing a concealed letter, glancing about to confirm she is indeed alone.
The highlights of the drawing are the fine carving of the courtesan´s hair-line and the fine dress; an elegant kimono with vivid colors and intricate dessing.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ikiyo-e Figurative Painting, Obvious Love Arawaruru Koi, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
BIJIN-GA SERIES XVIII (Nº 18)
Title: Obvious Love (Arawaruru Koi)
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print Obvious Love (Arawaruru Koi) (1793-94); 38,8 x 26,2 cm.. Art Institute Chicago, USA.
A sensual woman seems to care little that her kimono is open, exposing a breast. Her hair is in disarray , the hairpin at the front about to fall and she holds one of the hairpins in her left hand. She appears to be looking down outside the frame of the picture, perhaps in mid-conversation. The term “arawaruru” refers to a love so wholehearted that it expresses itself in the lover´s face and mannerisms.
In the 1780's and 90's the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo and the designer Kitagawa Utamaro worked together on the production of many woodblock prints, most of them of the bijin-ga type. One of their most popular productions was a set of images that purported to depict psychological classifications of women - 'fickle', 'interesting', etc.. Perhaps in response to this success, they then came up with something similar - a set of prints...
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2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Crayon, Oil Crayon
Heroin
Located in Wien, 9
Karl Anton Fleck's portraits captivate through reduction to the essential, as well as distortion and the use of details and symbols. The striking stroke creates clear contours and th...
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1980s Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Portrait of the top-class courtesan Hanamurasaki elegantly combed, and dressed in a simple formal kimono and obi, adorned with symbols of her okiya. She is sitting on her knees in a graceful pose, stretching her arms forward and crossing her fingers with a delicate movement of the wrists.
This image is part of the “bijin-ga series” (Pretty women) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print “Hanamurasaky of the Tamaya”, (from the series: “Array of supreme beauties of the Present Day”, 1794), 36,2 x 25 cm. Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, USA.
The artist reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and from the original publisher ("Tsutaya", climbing leaf)), between the two, the signature of Mario BGil written in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the "bijing-ga series", Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the business world, away from commercial art galleries. Man of very diverse interests and great artistic sensitivity, studied Art History and in 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him so that he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
Category
2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Hanazuma of the Hyôgaya House
Located in Segovia, ES
Hanazuma, a beautiful high-class courtesan of the Hyôgaya House, appears sitting sideways on her legs, twisting a letter between her hands at the height of her heart. It is perhaps its message that makes her throw her head back with a beautiful turn of her entire body allowing us to contemplate the frontal details of her kimono and her obi, in green and orange, with beautiful ornaments.
This image is part of the “bijin-ga” series (Pretty women) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print “Hanazuma of the Hyôgaya House”, (1794), 38,8 x 25,9 cm. The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum. Matsumoto, Japan.
The artist reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and from the original publisher (“Tsutaya”, climbing leaf)), between the two, the signature of Mario BGil written in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the bijing-ga series, Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the business world, away from commercial art galleries. Man of very diverse interests and great artistic sensitivity, studied Art History and in 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him so that he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
Category
2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, The courtese Hinakoto, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXI (Nº 21)
Title: The courtese Hinakoto of the Hyôgorô House of Edo
The courtesan Hinakoto is depicted by smoking tobacco. She takes the pipe delicately in her left hand and, in her right hand, she seems to be holding a “uchiwa” (rigid hand fan) that comes out from the bottom of the drawing, decorated with written calligraphy. Some strands of hair that fall on her temple and her scant clothing show that the painter has surprised her in a relaxed moment in which she does not lose her elegance and slenderness.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.009
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.009 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink and Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Notation 418.009 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages ...
Category
2010s Feminist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.012
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.012 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink and Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Notation 418.012 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages ...
Category
2010s Feminist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.156
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.156 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.156 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
Category
1970s Feminist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
The Gathering, Train Station Pastel, British Mid 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Pastel and graphite on paper
Image size: 8 1/4 x 5 inches (21 x 12.75 cm)
Contemporary style handmade frame
The Artist
Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He studied at the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
Indiana Jones and the Scouring at the Pillar
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.030
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.030 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.030 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
Category
1970s Feminist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Trio with Cat
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) is one of the most accomplished and versatile Canadian artists. She achieved a level of commercial and critical success in her lifetime that was exceptional for a woman in her era in a male-dominated field.
Wieland set new standards for what women artists could accomplish and was the first woman artist to have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery (Ottawa) in 1971.
Many of her innovative creations predate similar works by female artists...
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1960s Feminist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.074
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.074 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.074 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
Category
1970s Feminist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Surrealist Nude Female Figure
Located in Miami, FL
This is an important work that is loaded with Surrealist iconographies. The shape of her hands is echoed in the shape of her hair. Tiny man and woman figures...
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1930s Surrealist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
Uphill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Monica Zeringue received her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2006, and her BA in 1993. In 1999 she was awarded the Prix de l'Acadamie de Paris, Societe Internationale des B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Linen
Shewolf
Located in New Orleans, LA
Monica Zeringue received her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2006, and her BA in 1993. In 1999 she was awarded the Prix de l'Acadamie de Paris, Societe Internationale des B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Linen
Circus Clown and Guitarist
Located in Milford, NH
A fine graphite drawing of a circus clown with guitarist by British / Canadian artist Jack Leonard Shadbolt (1909-1998). Shadbolt was born in Sho...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
" Aède " Greek Poet
Located in CANNES, FR
Paco Rabanne ( 1934-2023 )
grand couturier et parfumeur franco-espagnol . il a marqué l'univers de la mode dans les années 60.
en 1963 , lauréat de la biennale de Paris avec une sculpture
exposée au musée d'art moderne de Paris .
" Aède " est un autoportrait de Paco Rabanne
Feutre noir et de couleur , encre sur papier .
signé et daté 1991 .
30 x 23 cm .
51 x 41 cm encadré cadre alu noir canon de fusil
provenance : Succession Paco Rabanne 2023
" Un Aède est ,en Grèce antique...
Category
1990s Art Deco Graphite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt, Graphite
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