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Medium: Handmade Paper
The Gift
Located in New Orleans, LA
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Ink, Handmade Paper
Still life with lantern - English School, 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A luminous 1850 still life study of a tin lantern.
Black chalk with white heightening on brownish-gray, fibrous, handmade buff wove paper, 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (262 x 172 mm), the ...
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Mid-19th Century English School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper, Pencil
The Dethroning / Italian School, 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and grayish ink wash on bluish wove paper, 7 x 10 1/2 inches (177 x 265 mm) (matrix). Scattered surface soiling, adhesive residue, dog-eared corners, and scattered edge tears along left margin, outside of image area. Paper is braced on the verso with two pages from a mid 19th century book with illustrations by C.Perrin. One image depicts a scene of a group of soldiers representing the Holy Roman Empire...
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Late 18th Century Italian School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Schooners along the Hudson, West Point Academy in the distance.
Located in Middletown, NY
A serene Hudson River scene by a student of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Anna May Walling was born in 1881, a native of Goshen, New York. She was a graduate of the Blair Academy, and Prat...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-24
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-24
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist Bi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
The Introduction, French School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
In this charming scene a maid appears bashful as she is introduced by her mother to the shepherd’s son.
Ink and wash on hand made, cool-toned cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches...
Category
Mid-18th Century French School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist B...
Category
2010s Expressionist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Original work made with natural materials and hammer on paper, yellow bread
Located in Carballo, ES
Special edition of the artist made with an original and unique drawing for his exhibition "1 + 1 = infinity" at the Manolo Eirin Gallery. This tension between the unlimited and the c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rice Paper
A tailor fitting exotic and historical costumes.
Located in Middletown, NY
A charming scene of men and women in various dress, perhaps a theater company costume fitting.
English School, 19th century (circle of Cruikshank), circa 1860.
Watercolor and pencil...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pencil
Study of horse and ox bones
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite, ink wash and watercolor on handmade laid paper with a large, indistinguishable ovoid watermark with a bunch of grapes, 8 7/16 x 12 5/8 inches (225 x 320 mm), signed in brown ink in the lower left. With the Henry Scipio Reitlinger oval stamp in brown ink on the verso (Lugt 2274a).
The condition of the image and paper is consistent with age, there is minor toning on the recto and some attenuation of the green pigment. The drawing is laid down to an 18th century laid paper support and has a small pencil notation in the lower right corner (modern), and scattered notations in pencil on the verso of the support (also modern, perhaps auction/accession notes). On the paper support is an ink drawing in red and black of what appears to be the floor plan for the wing of a large building. The drawing is top-up, adhered facing the verso of the drawing. The architectural drawing on the support is visible through to the recto of the composition when the sheets are viewed through raking light. There is a small area of stipple point spotting in brown ink on the verso of the support. Examination under black light shows no indication of repairs or additions, expert or otherwise.
Provenance:
Henry Scipio Reitlinger was born in either 1882 or 1885, attended Kings College...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Graphite
Kutschen (carriages); Group of four designs for hansom cabs.
Located in Middletown, NY
Four pencil drawings, each with hand coloring in watercolor, each 6 3/4 x 10 inches (sheet) (172 x 254 mm), full margins. Each with inscriptions and notations by the artist in the up...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Lake landscape – Swiss School early 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Brush and brown ink and wash with graphite on cream wove paper, 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (165 x 232mm). Inscribed "Fahlerant, No. 9754, Paisaje--Orillas de un lago" in ink on the verso. ...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Graphite
The Assumption of Mary Magdalene, Italian School, 16th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Brownish ink and grayish ink wash with white heightening on handmade cream laid paper, 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (267 x 208 mm)(matrix). Scattered minor losses to top sheet edge (outside...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Watercolour on Handmade Paper Laid on Vélin d'Arches of an African Sculpture.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour on handmade paper possibly of a 'Fang' figure applied to Vélin d'Arches paper by French artist La Roche Laffitte.
A beautifully observed and detailed study of a Fang figure in muted brown on high quality hand-made paper. An extremely chic and elegant watercolour.
This contemporary artist, born in 1943, specialises in watercolour studies on hand-made paper. With his highly detailed and precisely painted studies he invites us into the magical world of cultural objects, flora and fauna. The treasures of nature along with tribal regalia is his main inspiration. All of his work is beautifully observed and executed down to the smallest detail.
The Fang are a major ethnic group of Central and West Africa and form part of the population of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon.
They produce monumental anthropomorphic wooden statues, used for ritual purposes, with an aesthetic that was admired from the late nineteenth century onwards by such famous modern artists as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and André Derain.
Fang sculptures...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Contemplation
Located in Middletown, NY
This is an engaging work with masterful detail that will unfold for an intent viewer, particularly in the area of the figure's well-worn hands, and her traditional clothing. The image depicts a Bavarian woman deep in thought while winding a skein of wool. She is seated outside of her home, where she has brought her yarn swift...
Category
1870s English School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
At Tunbridge Well
By Agostino Aglio
Located in Middletown, NY
Black crayon and graphite with white heightening on blue handmade laid paper. Adhered at all four corners to a period support, on which the title and an illegible date (perhaps 1815) appear to be written in the artist's hand.
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Aglio was born in Cremona is 1777 and his artistic talent was recognized early in his life. He was promised a place at the University in Milan by the Holy Roman Emperor, however, his formal education was upended before it even began by the invasion of Italy and Austria by Napoleon. Aglio joined the war effort and fought in a series of major battles near Venice before becoming seriously ill. At the age of about 23 he was released from duty, and traveled to Rome to focus on his health, and landscape painting. In Rome, Aglio studied with the renowned artist Campovecchio. At the invitation of well known British architect William Wilkins (designer of the National Gallery and University College London), Aglio relocated to London in 1803. He made London his permanent home, and married Letitia Clarke in 1805. He enjoyed a lucrative career painting frescoes in the interiors of high society townhouses, country manors, and major London concert halls and theaters. Most notably, Aglio painted multiple official portraits of Queen Victoria...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
The Shambles, York, with Yorkminster in the background
Located in Middletown, NY
Black crayon on white wove paper, 4 3/8 x 5 3/8 (110 x 135 mm), signed in pencil on the verso. Adhered to an archival laid-paper mount at each of the four corners on the verso. With ...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper
Two figures amongst some ruins – English School 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and ink and watercolor on mid-weight, cream wove paper, 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (222 x 312 mm). Scattered light wear along the sheet perimeter, as well as a dog-eared lower right c...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Pencil
Portrait of Leopold Myers by Sir William Rothenstein
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately sanguine portrait of Leopold Hamilton Myers (Novelist) by Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945). Captured in Rothenstein's characteristic style, Myers looks directly at the viewer with a neutral expression. Although this portrait uses only two colors and minimal shading, the likeness of Myers is incredibly well captured. Leo (Leopold) Hamilton Myers (1881 – 1944) was a British novelist. Numerous examples like this one of the writer are in the Tate Museum.
Initialed and dated in the lower right corner ("W.R. 1936")
Inscription on verso indicating materials, subject, and artist.
Presented in a new cream colored mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 18"H x 12"W
Paper size: 15.25"H x 10.75"W
William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945) was born into a German-Jewish family in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His father, Moritz, emigrated from Germany in 1859 to work in Bradford's burgeoning textile industry. Soon afterwards he married Bertha Dux, and they had six children, of which William was the fifth. Rothenstein was knighted in 1931.
Rothenstein left Bradford Grammar School at the age of sixteen to study at the Slade School of Art*, London (1888-1893), where he was taught by Alphonse Legros, and the Académie Julian* in Paris (1889-1893), where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Whilst in Paris he also befriended the Anglo-Australian artist Charles Conder, with whom he shared a studio in Montmartre. In 1893 he returned to England to work on "Oxford Characters" a series of lithographic* portraits.
In Oxford he met and became a close friend of the caricaturist* and parodist Max Beerbohm, who later immortalised him in the short story Enoch Soames (1919). During the 1890s Rothenstein exhibited with the New English Art Club* and, in 1900, won a silver medal for his painting The Doll's House at the Exposition Universelle. In 1898 he co-founded the Carfax Gallery in St. James' Piccadilly with John Fothergill. During its early years the gallery was closely associated with such artists as Charles Conder, Philip Wilson Steer, Charles Ricketts and Augustus John. It also exhibited the work of Auguste Rodin, whose growing reputation in England owed much to Rothenstein's friendship and missionary zeal. The gallery was later the home for all three exhibitions of The Camden Town Group*, led by Rothenstein's friend and close contemporary Walter Sickert.
Rothenstein is best known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and for being an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. He was also a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers. The style and subject of his paintings varies, though certain themes reappear, in particular an interest in 'weighty' or 'essential' subjects tackled in a restrained manner. Good examples include Parting at Morning (1891), Mother and Child (1903) and Jews Mourning at a Synagogue (1907) - all of which are owned by the Tate Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery owns over two hundred of his portraits. In 2011 the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation began cataloguing all of his paintings in public ownership online.
Between 1902 and 1912 Rothenstein lived in Hampstead, London, where his social circle included such names as H.G.Wells, Joseph Conrad and the artist Augustus John. Amongst the young artists to visit Rothenstein in Hampstead were Mark Gertler...
Category
1930s Realist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Handmade Paper
Portrait of Raffaello / Italian School
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and ink on handmade, watermarked C & I Honig laid paper, 8 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches (226 x 170 mm). Signed illegibly in ink, lower margin. Scattered light creasing and surface...
Category
18th Century Italian School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Graphite
The Sermon on the Mount – French School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and ink with wash on watermarked J Whatman 1814 paper, 11 x 8 1/4 (280 x 210 mm). Scattered minor edge losses at the left sheet edge, well outside of image area. Minor handling w...
Category
19th Century French School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
15th C. Tibetan Tsakali: "High Lama Presenting a Ceremonial Scarf"
Located in SANTA FE, NM
15th C. Tibetan Tsakali
"High Lama Presenting a Ceremonial Scarf"
MIneral pigne
6 1/4 x 4 (16 x 13 3/4 frame) inches
Category
15th Century and Earlier Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Vita Condatida- 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing of a pig
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni
Vita Condatida
66 x 48 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass)
Measurement with included frame: 80 x 60 cm
Italian artist Rosanna...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Handmade Paper
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. - Botanical Studies.
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].
Group of 12 flowers and insects.
Mid to late nineteenth century.
A fine group of Chinese export...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rice Paper, Gouache
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Worplesdon Lodge – English School 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
This charming landscape features the structure now known as the Worplesdon Place Hotel, near Guildford, Surrey. The house is of notable historical significance, and it is registered ...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Pencil
Baths of Caracalla, Rome
Located in Middletown, NY
English School, 19th century. Baths at Caracalla, Rome. 1852.
Ink wash in brown ink on cream wove paper, 9 7/8 x 13 inches (250 x 330 mm), titled and dated in brown ink, lower right...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. - Botanical Studies
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].
A Group of 10 Flowers and Butterflies.
mid to late nineteeenth century.
A fine group of Chines...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rice Paper
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French Impressionist Portrait Drawing, 'The Art Lesson'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil study portrait drawing of a child painting at an easel by French artist Charles-Jean Agard. The work is signed bottom left and presented in a carved wood and gilt frame with mount under glass.
A very charming pencil study of a child sitting at an easel. Agard has beautifully captured the head and face in full, with the light and shade, the rest of the body and surroundings are in sketch form, the contrast between the two making for a very successful composition beautifully capturing the intensity of the sitter.
Charles Agard...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Pencil
Mary Frank, Cast 3-D Cast Paper Collage, signed, No. 78/85
By Mary Frank
Located in New York, NY
Mary Frank
Untitled 3-D Cast Paper Collage, 1985
3D Cast Paper with Deckled Edges
Hand signed, numbered 78/85 and dated by the artist on lower left front
21 3/4 × 28 1/2 × 1 3/4 inch...
Category
1980s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Dream
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
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
The Braid -line drawing figure and red circle
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor in black and red color on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size.
This is the "Many thoughts...
Category
2010s Minimalist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper
"Two Girls". Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
We are pleased to sell works on behalf of Celia RobertsBorn 1950 in Stafford
Educated at Oxford University 1969-1973 BA Hons in Hebrew.
She has exhibited in the Arterie Gallery in ...
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2010s Medieval Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Watercolor, Bamboo Paper
Early 20th century German watercolor of children dancing in traditional dress
Located in Woodbury, CT
Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...
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1910s Victorian Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Personnages sur la plage
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Dalva DUARTE (born in 1949)
Characters on the beach
Watercolor on paper
Size of the watercolor: 36 x 50 cm
Signed and dated 1980 lower right.
Provenance...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
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
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Esther's Second Banquet (Haman's Treachery Revealed), Purim Collage #14
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel
Esther's Second Banquet (Haman's Treachery Revealed), Purim Collage #14, ca. 2017
Hand made paper collage on paper
Hand signed on the front; also is accompanying by handwritten text by the artist and a typed narrative
14 × 17 inches
Unique
Unframed; This work is held in a matting which opens up
This handmade paper collage was exhibited in April, 2018 in the show "Thelma Appel: Landscapes, Cityscapes + Biblical Journeys Exhibition at the Edward & Bernice Wenger Center for the Arts in Greenvale, New York". Curated by art advisor and curator, Susan Seelig. It depicts the second banquet of the Jewish Queen Esther, married to the Persian King...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Magazine Paper
Drawings from Mt Gretna, III
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Drawings from Mt Gretna XXIX
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
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Prodigal Son (VIII)
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
A Group of twelve Courtiers
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].
Group of 12 Courtiers.
Mid to late nineteenth century.
12 hand painted water-colours on pith paper, pale blue silk borders, a few minor...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rice Paper
Rural couple examining a traveling carnival display – French School, 19th cent.
Located in Middletown, NY
Red crayon on brown light-wove paper, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (172 x 121 mm). Light toning and extremely minor, small losses at the very extreme top right and left corners (1/8-inch).
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Crayon
Palm Grooves of South India, Charcoal & Wash on Paper, (set of two) "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K.G. Subramanyan - Untitled - 15 x 11 inches (unframed size)
Charcoal & Wash on paper
(Framed & Delivered)
Style : K G Subramanyan was one of the leading artists who was part of India’s post-Independence search for identity through art. A writer, scholar, teacher and art historian, K G Subramanyan was prolific in his art, spanning the spectrum of mediums from painting to pottery, weaving, and glass painting. He believed in the value of Indian traditions and incorporated folklore, myth and local techniques and stories into his work.
Critic Geeta Kapur has stated that Subramanyan was deeply influenced by popular, modern, classical and indigenous traditions. No matter what the medium, be it handmade paper or acrylic sheet, his artistic practice has integrated fluid traditions so as to create a new lingua franca. The strokes that shape the faces and the little blobs, the vertical and horizontal drama all become like a choreographed symbolism that has a sense of play in line and length. Nothing is in excess, nothing is obnoxious but each stroke forms the finesse of versatile ventures.
About the Artist and his work :
K.G. Subramanyan (1924-2016) was born in Kerala.
Education : He completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Presidency College in Chennai.
In 1948, he graduated from Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan, where he studied under the tutelage of Benode Behari Mukherjee, Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij.
In 1955, he received a British Council Research Fellowship to the Slade School of Art at the University of London.
He was an inspiration to generations of students as a member of the Baroda M S Fine Arts Faculty. His focus there in later years was on terracotta and pottery.
Solo Shows :
2014 – The Government Museum & Arts Gallery, Chandigarh.
2014 – Red Earth Gallery, Vadodara.
2018 – Art Musings, Mumbai, KG Subramanyan...
Category
2010s Modern Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Charcoal, Washi Paper
Serene Duets: Women in Kimonos Embracing Nature
Located in THOMERY, FR
Capturing the essence of tranquility and grace, this breathtaking watercolor piece, measuring 56 x 76 cm, features a mesmerizing portrayal of two women adorned in elegant kimonos aga...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Graphite and gouache on handmade paper: 'The Remains: 4'
Located in New York, NY
The Remains, A series of 10 works
An insect approaches a crumpled paper doily to eat what remains of a party. This series explores the moment when the trimmings become debris and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
"Joy Of Life" Ink On Paper Original Drawing 2010 by Devie
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Graphite and gouache on handmade paper: 'The Remains: 5'
Located in New York, NY
The Remains, A series of 10 works
An insect approaches a crumpled paper doily to eat what remains of a party. This series explores the moment when the trimmings become debris and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Whispers & Hisses Series: 'In Dread'
Located in New York, NY
This series was inspired by a 1950’s era instruction manual found while clearing out my father’s basement workshop. The How To Light A Model manual employed voluptuous female models to teach lighting techniques to amateur photographers such as my father. Diagrams plot the prescribed direction of the lights. The nude women hold the pose, their lips bright red and their feet dirty from the studio floor. As naked props for the authoritarian photographer, their vulnerability seems palpable.
This work visualizes the human condition as a balance between feral and fabricated worlds. Vivid, oversized creatures embody instinctual energy. Wax seals, gold spheres and text-like marks signify rational structures. One speaks in a whisper, the other in a hiss.
Winifred McNeill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Italian School, Nicolo Grassi, 18th, Worship of Venus, The Venus Sacrifice, Amor
Located in Greven, DE
Italian School, 18th Century, Circle of Grassi,
This old master drawing is drawn in the late-Baroque or Rococo style.
It depicts a woman worshipping Venus/ preparing a sacrifice for ...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
"Red Lips" Ink & acrylic Original Drawing on handmade Paper, 21" x 17" by Devie
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Whispers & Hisses Series: 'In Panic'
Located in New York, NY
This series was inspired by a 1950’s era instruction manual found while clearing out my father’s basement workshop. The How To Light A Model manual employed voluptuous female models to teach lighting techniques to amateur photographers such as my father. Diagrams plot the prescribed direction of the lights. The nude women hold the pose, their lips bright red and their feet dirty from the studio floor. As naked props for the authoritarian photographer, their vulnerability seems palpable.
This work visualizes the human condition as a balance between feral and fabricated worlds. Vivid, oversized creatures embody instinctual energy. Wax seals, gold spheres and text-like marks signify rational structures. One speaks in a whisper, the other in a hiss.
Winifred McNeill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Life - Original Drawing Portrait Of A Women Ink & Acrylic On Paper by Devie
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
"Happiness" by Devie
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Graphite and gouache on handmade paper: 'The Remains: 6'
Located in New York, NY
The Remains, A series of 10 works
An insect approaches a crumpled paper doily to eat what remains of a party. This series explores the moment when the trimmings become debris and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
"Model With Bird" Ink On Paper 2010 Framed
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Whispers & Hisses Series: 'In Defiance'
Located in New York, NY
This series was inspired by a 1950’s era instruction manual found while clearing out my father’s basement workshop. The How To Light A Model manual employed voluptuous female models to teach lighting techniques to amateur photographers such as my father. Diagrams plot the prescribed direction of the lights. The nude women hold the pose, their lips bright red and their feet dirty from the studio floor. As naked props for the authoritarian photographer, their vulnerability seems palpable.
This work visualizes the human condition as a balance between feral and fabricated worlds. Vivid, oversized creatures embody instinctual energy. Wax seals, gold spheres and text-like marks signify rational structures. One speaks in a whisper, the other in a hiss.
Winifred McNeill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Whispers & Hisses Series: 'In Worship'
Located in New York, NY
This series was inspired by a 1950’s era instruction manual found while clearing out my father’s basement workshop. The How To Light A Model manual employed voluptuous female models to teach lighting techniques to amateur photographers such as my father. Diagrams plot the prescribed direction of the lights. The nude women hold the pose, their lips bright red and their feet dirty from the studio floor. As naked props for the authoritarian photographer, their vulnerability seems palpable.
This work visualizes the human condition as a balance between feral and fabricated worlds. Vivid, oversized creatures embody instinctual energy. Wax seals, gold spheres and text-like marks signify rational structures. One speaks in a whisper, the other in a hiss.
Winifred McNeill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Whispers & Hisses Series: 'In Regret'
Located in New York, NY
This series was inspired by a 1950’s era instruction manual found while clearing out my father’s basement workshop. The How To Light A Model manual employed voluptuous female models to teach lighting techniques to amateur photographers such as my father. Diagrams plot the prescribed direction of the lights. The nude women hold the pose, their lips bright red and their feet dirty from the studio floor. As naked props for the authoritarian photographer, their vulnerability seems palpable.
This work visualizes the human condition as a balance between feral and fabricated worlds. Vivid, oversized creatures embody instinctual energy. Wax seals, gold spheres and text-like marks signify rational structures. One speaks in a whisper, the other in a hiss.
Winifred McNeill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Graphite and gouache on handmade paper: 'The Remains: 2'
Located in New York, NY
The Remains, A series of 10 works
An insect approaches a crumpled paper doily to eat what remains of a party. This series explores the moment when the trimmings become debris and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
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