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Medium: Paint
Macking - Surf Collage Watercolor Purple Black Silver with Swarovski Crystals
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Borrowing its title from surf terminology for ideal wave conditions, "Macking" plunges the viewer into a dynamic watercolor collage landscape sparkling with Swarovski crystals. Simil...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Seated Mother and Child, 1 (executed 1982)
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Charcoal and gouache on paper Paper size: 9x 11.5 inches Framed size: 23.5 x 25.75 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Raymond Spencer Co.; Galerie Dominion, Montreal, 1982; Dr Max Stern, Montreal, 1982; Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles; Purchased by Haynes Fine Art...
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20th Century Abstract Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Gouache

At the stop. 2022, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the stop 2022, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm Ansis Butnors (1977) Education: J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996. Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department – 1996. – 2...
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2010s Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic

Love, 2021
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young. She creates lively and childlike characters, finding inspiration in the works of early Italian Renaissance masters such as Fra Angelico. Wilson graduated from Wellesley College in 1991, and pursued her education in Florence. She received her MFA at New York Academy of Art, and later worked as a painting assistant to Jeff Koons for two years. This current series employs the toile wallpaper samples that the artist had lying around her house during lockdown as a backdrop for ambiguous and complicated feelings toward quarantine and domestic confinement. In this work, she is hoping to narrate how fear of the pandemic unknown, coupled with household anxieties, and increased self-awareness contributed to the mixed emotions of security and hostility towards enforced domesticity within a masked world. The toile tradition represented a coincidental parallel with the COVID era rediscovery of old-fashioned pastoral lifestyles, and the embrace of self-reliant artisanal practices like cooking, gardening, sewing, and prescribed homeschooling. Her colorful inscriptions, some original, some appropriated, layer in our contemporary lifestyle, our modern methods of connectivity as well as our high-tech world. The punky playfulness of the neon and fluorescents contrasts with the backdrop of Fragonard-esque imagery and hopes to delivery her messages of love and connection, awareness and newness, hope and emotions, as well as the occasional glossily veiled hostility expressed in certain so-called “love” declarations. The phrases evolved from a previous series addressing the Me Too movement...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Shin Seung-Hun - Healing Greenland, Chunja-Go
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics, oil pastel on canvas Shin Seung-Hun is a South-Korean artist born in 1979 who lives & works in Jeju Island, Korea. He is considered by critics as the new Korean Takashi Mu...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Follower of Francesco Guardi, Figures in a Mediterranean port by a Roman Arch
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Harkstead, GB
A lively, well executed sketch painted by a 19th century follower of Francesco Guardi Follower of Francesco Guardi, 19th Century Figures by a Roman Arch Watercolour with ink and sc...
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19th Century Old Masters Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Bedford Park, LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO - Watercolour, Town Scene, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Bedford Park by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) Watercolour on paper 24.5 x 38 cm (9 ⅝ x 15 inches) Signed, inscribed and dated lower left, Bedford Park 1928 Ludovic Rodo Painted ...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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...
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Mid-19th Century English School Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pencil

Canadian Contemporary Art by Christian Frederiksen - Medusa 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on paper Christian Frederiksen is a Georgian artist born in 1989 who lives and works in Calgary, Canada. He loves to experiment with...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Portrait of a woman" Ink & Acrylic on paper framed 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Korean Contemporary Art by Shin Seung-Hun - Healing Greenland, Skydiving Chunja
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics, oil pastel on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic

The Last Fence Glangesia Jumps His 60th National Fence Aintree 1931
Located in Bristol, CT
Glangesia would finish 4th w/ J. Browne jockey aboard Watercolor w/ gouache highlights Art Sz: 9 3/4"H x 15 5/8"W Frame Sz: 18"H x 24"W Preparations for the Grand National Steeple...
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1930s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

"Up North Birch Bark Series: Homage to Michelangelo Birch Bark Body" D. Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Series: Homage to Michelangelo Birch Bark Body" is an original watercolor on birch bark by David Barnett. The artist signed and dated the piece lower right on the backing b...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Found Objects, Watercolor

Le Pont Neuf
Located in London, GB
'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided. About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
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1930s Expressionist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Hypnotic Nature - Fantasy Feminine Botanical Figurative Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian painter Silvia Pavarini is known for her distinctly feminine artworks that resonate with the quiet whispers of nature. Each piece she creates embodies an ongoing dialogue wit...
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2010s Surrealist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Pencil

Early 20th Century French Gouache on Paper, The Frog and The Fisherman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French gouache and watercolour on paper of a fisherman by Louis Henri Magnat, The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a carved and gilt wood frame und...
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Early 20th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

"Taylor Sitting" sepia watercolor gesture painting of a nude figure from behind
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timel...
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2010s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"La sentinelle de Thérèse", c. 1914-1918, drawing and gouache, signed
Located in PARIS, FR
"La sentinelle de Thérèse" (The Sentinel of Therese), two soldiers discussing, bears a handwritten note at the bottom "if you feel like sneezing, you will go under the window of the ...
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1910s French School Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Carbon Pencil

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 Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard

Look Jane Ink Watercolor on Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Look Jane, ink, watercolor on archival paper. From the new series. Jane and Dick conversation. Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid &...
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2010s Pop Art Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Children's Book Illustrator - Mother Goose, Children and Flowers
Located in Miami, FL
Mother Goose is a French fairy tale and later of English nursery rhyme. In this illustration, we see an oversized Goose in a yellow bonnet elevated on a step and engaging with an attentively curious young girl and young boy. Large vases of flowers frame them. Titled in pencil center bottom: "Goosey, Goosey Gander. Where do you wander? Signed Margaret Evans Price...
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1910s Art Nouveau Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

"He bent down and kissed her" Magazine WWII Era Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for “Hero Come Home” by Ruth Burr Sanborn for The Saturday Evening Post, published September 12, 1942, page 24. This sentimental illustration, accompany...
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1940s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). Good conditions. Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

"Heah's a few little trinkets I picked up" or "Phil and the Judge"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"Heah's a Few Little Trinkets I Picked Up," or "Phil and the Judge" Probable book or magazine illustration showing the character named Phil in front of a judge. Artwork Dimension...
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Early 1900s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
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1980s Romantic Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

MEN IN BOWLER HATS
Located in Portland, ME
Johnson, Lester (American, 1919-2010). MEN IN BOWLER HATS. Drawing, watercolor, wash, and pastel on paper, 1973. Signed, lower right. 26 1/2 x 40 1/2 inches...
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1970s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Watercolor

After Ingres Drawing
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"After Ingres Drawing" is a figurative Modern pencil and watercolor on paper work by Paul Wunderlich in 1973. The artwork is 26 1/8 x 19 inches and 35 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 2 inches with th...
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20th Century Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Watercolor

Ray Hardy - Framed Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Caerthillian Cove
Located in Corsham, GB
Painted in a bold and refreshing colour palette is this striking view of Caerthillian Cove by British painter Ray Hardy. Signed to the lower left. The coastal scene has been well pre...
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Mid-20th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

William Glackens Watercolor on Paper, "Criticizing Ernest Lawson’s Art Class"
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938 Criticizing Ernest Lawson’s Art Class, ca. 1907 Watercolor and pencil on paper Signed (at lower left): Glackens Inscribed ...
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Early 1900s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Love, 2021
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young. She creates lively and childlike characters, finding inspiration in the works of early Italian Renaissance masters such as Fra Angelico. Wilson graduated from Wellesley College in 1991, and pursued her education in Florence. She received her MFA at New York Academy of Art, and later worked as a painting assistant to Jeff Koons for two years. This current series employs the toile wallpaper samples that the artist had lying around her house during lockdown as a backdrop for ambiguous and complicated feelings toward quarantine and domestic confinement. In this work, she is hoping to narrate how fear of the pandemic unknown, coupled with household anxieties, and increased self-awareness contributed to the mixed emotions of security and hostility towards enforced domesticity within a masked world. The toile tradition represented a coincidental parallel with the COVID era rediscovery of old-fashioned pastoral lifestyles, and the embrace of self-reliant artisanal practices like cooking, gardening, sewing, and prescribed homeschooling. Her colorful inscriptions, some original, some appropriated, layer in our contemporary lifestyle, our modern methods of connectivity as well as our high-tech world. The punky playfulness of the neon and fluorescents contrasts with the backdrop of Fragonard-esque imagery and hopes to delivery her messages of love and connection, awareness and newness, hope and emotions, as well as the occasional glossily veiled hostility expressed in certain so-called “love” declarations. The phrases evolved from a previous series addressing the Me Too movement...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). Good conditions. Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Love
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

A Tender Bare Heart - Dreamlike Whimsical Figurative Watercolor Graphite Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
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2010s Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Figures and Birds Indian Mithila Folk Art
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Figures and Birds Watercolor Traditional Indian Mithila Painting artist signed. Pencil, ink, natural dye watercolor, on handmade paper 17.7x22.7 framed under glass 24x29. Sita Devi (1914–2005) was an Indian artist, specializing in painting in the Madhubani tradition. She is one of the most well-known Madhubani artists from India...
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1960s Folk Art Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Portrait of Anna - Original Watercolor by Madeleine Sellier - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Anna is an original artwork realized by Madeleine Sellier. In good conditions. Watercolour technique. Glued on a paper 33x25 cm. Hand Signed on the lower side of the art...
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20th Century Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Portrait. 1966. watercolor on paper, 35.5x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1966. watercolor on paper, 35.5x30 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside...
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1960s Realist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Cityscape is a Watercolor artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (35x49.5 cm). Signature and date...
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1970s Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Brussels Excursion" (ca. 2011) By Naum Katsenelson, Watercolor Cityscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Brussels Excursion" (ca.2011) By Naum Katsenelson is a beautiful original watercolor painting done on watercolor paper, depicting a crowd of people walking up a staircase on a rainy...
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2010s Impressionist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Two Girls Playing with Flowers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Upper Left Medium: Watercolor on Paper 1905 Calendar Art, a copy of the calendar is included.
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Early 1900s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Three Figures
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and pencil on paper, 76cm x 51cm, (87cm x 61cm framed). Born in London to his renowned artist mother Elisabeth Frink RA and a French architect father, Michel Jammet, Ja...
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1990s Post-War Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"In the Artist's Studio, " Late 19th Century Scottish Realist Watercolor Interior
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"In the Artist's Studio" was painted in the realistic style in the late 19th century by the Scottish artist, George Clark Stanton. Stanton was a painter, watercolorist, goldsmith and...
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Late 19th Century Realist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Giambattista Valli Haute couture. From The Fashion Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Ink

Bless You All Tony Award Broadway Costume Design Mid 20th Century Theatre Modern
Located in New York, NY
Bless You All Tony Award Broadway Costume Design Mid 20th Century Theatre Modern. Miles White (1915 – 2000) "Bless You All," 15 x 11 (sight) inches. Mixed media on paper. The musical opened December 13, 1950 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. Miles won the 1951 Tony Award for Costume Design. Miles was one of my closest friends for the last 20 years of his life. We live with one of his two Tony Awards and a dozen drawings. BIO White was a top Broadway and Hollywood costume designer. The artist created the costumes for the original Broadway productions of OKLAHOMA, CAROUSEL, PAL JOEY and BYE BYE BIRDIE...
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1950s Performance Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Humorous Illustration of a Man Walking his Dog by Maurice Freed
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Maurice Freed (American, 1911-1981) Dog Walking Watercolor on board, 8 x 12 1/2 inches FRAMED: 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (approx.) Signed at lower left: “MAURICE FREED” Maurice Freed...
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Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Friday I'm in love
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless s...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Léa LAFUGIE (1890-1972), gouache of a Burmese dancer
Located in Paris, FR
Léa Lafugie is a painter who has travelled extensively throughout Asia. She is renowned for her portraits. She studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at the Ecole de...
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1920s Art Deco Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Pande Mus
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting shows the artist`s perception of the epidemic. The little mouse has the Latin name « Pande Mus». This painting is bursting with surrealism and symbolism. It features a...
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2010s Futurist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Head, Ink & Watercolour on Paper by Indian Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Head, Ink & Watercolour on paper - 11 x 17.25 inches (unframed size) Free Shipping Without Frame Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Ex...
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Early 2000s Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Charcoal, Watercolor

Costume di Napoli - Gouache - by Michela De Vito - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Costume di Napoli is an original gouache drawing on paper realized by Michela De Vito, Naples. Hand-signed, on the bottom center. Good conditions.
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19th Century Old Masters Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Across the Frozen River, 1870, Original Watercolor
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite watercolor by Fritz von Dardel captures a vivid winter scene, rich in narrative and detail. The composition depicts a rustic moment: a horse-drawn sleigh carrying a co...
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1870s Realist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Lady Painting En Plein Aire, 1880's
By Eduardo Dalbono
Located in New York, NY
Eduardo DalBono, Portrait of a Lady Painting En Plein Aire, 1880's. Watercolour on card paper of a lady dressed in white in an artist’s folding chair seated with sketchbook and brush viewing the landscape, possibly seaside with soft brown dunes in the background and blue and green brush foliage in the foreground. An elegant subject softly rendered in original gilt carved floral frui frame. Eduardo DalBono was a Neapolitan pupil of Nicola Palizzi...
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Late 19th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

The Sunbonnet Babies - Modernist Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Bertha Corbett Melcher's The Sunbonnet Babies, with their flat, minimalist, semi-abstract, and symbolic style, are an early example of American Modernism/Surrealism by a lesser-known female artist/illustrator. The present work demonstrates a delicate balance between abstraction and representation and between the commonplace and the mysterious. Her signature use of a hat or sunbonnet to hide the identity of her subjects is a big conceptual and visual idea that has been overlooked in the fine art canon. The exact meaning of this is unknown, but 120 years after they were done, it resonates as somewhat surrealistic. Her work is a contradiction. She shows innocent children engaging in everyday activity but are depicted in vail of mystery. Why does she not show the faces of her subjects? Watercolor on paper (each) Six drawings in all on one board. 6-1/8 x 5 inches (15.6 x 12.7 cm) (each) One signed; two initialed; three not signed. Six drawing in all on one board. 6-1/8 x 5 inches (15.6 x 12.7 cm) (each) One signed; two initialed; three not signed The Sunbonnet Babies characters were created by illustration Bertha L. Corbett when she was challenged to create a faceless character who nonetheless was engaging and appealing. The characters were a wild hit and appeared in books, comics, and popular collectibles. They also became a popular motif in quilting. Few of Corbett's original drawings for the babies are known to survive, making this a rare offering. From: Wikipedia Sunbonnet Babies are characters created by commercial artist Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950). Sunbonnet Babies featured two girls in pastel colored dresses with their faces covered by sunbonnets. Sunbonnet Babies appeared in books, illustrations and advertisements between the years of 1900 and 1930. Sunbonnet Babies were later used as a popular quilting pattern also known as Sunbonnet Sue.[1] Melcher created a male version of the Sunbonnet Babies, named the 'Overall Boys' in 1905.[2][3] History Bertha L. Corbett Melcher Sunbonnet Babies were created by Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950).[4] Melcher was born in Denver and moved with her family to Minneapolis in the 1880s. Melcher attended art school in Minneapolis with plans to become a commercial artist.[5] She may have also studied with Howard Pyle.[6] By the 1920s, Melcher had moved to Topanga, California.[7][4] Melcher started drawing the Sunbonnet Babies in 1897. The origin of the signature style of the faces being covered by sunbonnets is contested by different members of Melcher's family and by Melcher herself. In an interview, Melcher's brother said their mother suggested Bertha avoid the difficulty of drawing faces by covering them with sunbonnets.[4] Melcher herself said that covering faces allowed her to communicate with body position.[4] Melcher has also said that the design came about in "answer to a friend’s challenge to convey emotion without a face."[2] Melcher published her first book, The Sun-Bonnet Babies in 1900.[3] Later, she shopped her illustrations to publisher Rand McNally of Chicago, and nine subsequent books were written by Eulalie Osgood Grover and illustrated by Bertha Corbett. In 1905, Melcher wrote The Overall Boys.[3] Many of these books were used as primers and used widely in primary schools in the midwest. Melcher used the sunbonnet babies in advertising and later established the Sunbonnet Babies Company. She started a studio to illustrate and create merchandise of the Sunbonnet Babies.[2] The characters also appeared in a comic strip.[2] Quilting Melcher herself did not originate the use of the sunbonnet babies as quilting pattern. The Sunbonnet Babies quilting pattern appeared in textile art 1910's in the Ladies Home Journal 1911–1912 in a quilt stitched by Marie Webster. The pattern was popular during the Great Depression. In the American South, it was often known as "Dutch Doll" until the 1970s.[3] There was also a quilt pattern based on the "Overall Boys," known by the various names including “Overall Bill, “Overall Andy,” “Sunbonnet Sam,” “Suspender Sam,” “Fisherman Jim."[3] Many patterns for quilts and sewing were designed by Ruby Short McKim and published in nationally syndicated newspapers.[8] Sunbonnet Sue became symbolic of 'female innocence and docility'.[9] Linda Pershing collected accounts from women quilters who depicted 'Sues' doing activities such as smoking, wearing more revealing clothing, and subverting feminine stereotypes.[10] In 1979, the “Seamsters Union Local #500," a group of quilters from Lawrence, Kansas, created “The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue," a quilt depicting the character murdered in a variety of ways.[3] Collectibles Sunbonnet Babies merchandise includes school books, valentines cards, postcards, china, and quilts.[2][5][11] Sunbonnet Babies were adapted into three dimensional porcelain collectibles and pottery made by Royal Bayreuth Company in the early 1900s. The Royal Bayreuth China...
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Early 1900s American Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Green Sunset" Original Painting by Tammy Liu-Haller - Buffalo Silhouette
Located in Denver, CO
Tammy Liu-Haller presents "Green Sunset," an original mixed media painting on encaustic panel created in 2023. This intimate artwork measures 5 x 5 x 0.87 inches (12.70 x 12.70 x 2.2...
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2010s Photorealist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gold Leaf

"Summer games"Games, children, fairy tales, summer, fun Guache cm. 29 x 10, 1960
Located in Torino, IT
Children, Playing,Green, Blue,Russian art, 1970, Marina Evgenevna USPENSKAYA (Moscow, 1925 – 2007) Marina Evgenevna Uspenskaya was born in Moscow. She graduated from the 1905 Art C...
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1960s Impressionist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

17th Century Figures Harvesting in a Hilly Landscape
Located in Stockholm, SE
A fine watercolor and sepia drawing of people harvesting in a hilly landscape attributed to Antonio Grano (c.1669-1718). In the front of the image is a shepherd resting against a roc...
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Late 17th Century Italian School Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

The Painter Giorgio De Chirico - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccarin in the 1950s. It depicts the painter and Master of Pittura Metafisica Giorgio De Chirico. Hand signed. Very good condition.
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1950s Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Jazz Panel #2 - gouache, 102x186 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
This is a panel painted with gouache on paper that was painted by Paul de Cayeux. He was a french painter and decorator. This suite comes from an old restaurant and ball room in Nice...
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1950s Art Deco Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

The Rock - Drawing by Albert Gaulme - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Albert Gaulme in 1950s. Not signed. Very good condition.
Category

1950s Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Ink

Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames. Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Mezzotint

Woman in a Pink Hat
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Andy Warhol. "Woman in a Pink Hat" is a figural drawing, ink and tempera on paper in a soft palette of pink and white by Post-War American artist...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Tempera

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