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Medium: Paint
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
City View by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape painting
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
City View by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
17.8 x 22.9 cm (7 x 9 inches)
Signed with Estate stamp
Executed circa 1904
Provenance
Priv...
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Early 1900s Fauvist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolored Etching
Antique Birds, from a collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational History of the Di...
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17th Century French School Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
$772 Sale Price
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"The Foundling" By Philip Gough
By Philip Gough
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic original gouache artwork by Philip Gough (1909-1986) signed (LR) for the jacket artwork to Georgette Heyer's 'The Foundling'
Art Sz: 7 7/8"H x...
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1950s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Fresh North Wind - Whimsical Fantasy 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 ...
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2010s Surrealist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Silhouette - 5"x7", Black Dress, Artwork On Paper, Painting, Gold Detail
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
SILHOUETTE - This artwork on paper captures a sense of understated glamour. The blending of a textile texture and delicate gold detailing around the waist creates a refined and elega...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
New York City Skyline
14 x 21 1/2 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1...
Category
1930s American Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
English School Early 20th Century Watercolour - Start of The Fishing Day
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming scene depicting workers loading fishing boats from the harbour at the start of a busy day. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame and wash line mount. On paper.
Category
20th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"What Does It Cost?" - Figurative work on paper with dog and text
Located in East Quogue, NY
Original mixed media work on paper by Adam Baranello.
Mixed media, acrylic, spray paint on canvas.
Size 17 x 14 in.
Offered unframed. Ships rolled
Multidisciplinary artist Adam Ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellow cardboard.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le H...
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1970s Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
20th Century Watercolour Painting - At the Fish Market
Located in London, GB
William LEE-HANKEY (1869-1952, British)
At the Fish Market
1904
pencil, watercolor, bodycolor w/gum arabic
20 x 20 inches, inc. frame
Provenance: The Swan Gallery...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Antique 19th Century Realism Orientalist Watercolor Paper on Board
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Arabian Charger Seller" by Antonio Rivas (Spanish, 1845-1911) stands as an exquisite example of Orientalism, a 19th-century artistic movement that sought to depict the rich and diverse cultures of the East. Rivas, a master of his craft, delves into this genre with a keen eye for detail and a dedication to authenticity that brings the scene to life.
In this antique watercolor on paper...
Category
19th Century Realist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Laid Paper
"The Mark of Eibon", Figurative Painting, Acrylic, Watercolor, Ink, Hand, Arm
By Jeremy Hush
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative painting titled "The Mark of Eibon" is an original artwork by Jeremy Hush made of ink, acrylic, and watercolor. This piece measures 12"h x 12"w.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Vintage Bi-Plane Watercolor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage bi-plane
Category
20th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII), circa 1939
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Charcoal on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), of the Duke of Windsor, (formerly King Edward VIII...
Category
1930s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Board
Les Élégantes by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Les Élégantes by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
15.8 x 11.1 cm (6 ¹/₄ x 4 ³/₈ inches)
Signed with initials lower right...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"The Red Barn Players Summer Theater" - American Weekly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Couple putting on theatrical make-up for summer theatre
Cover of American Weekly Magazine, June 20, 1954
Dimensions: 19.75 x 16.00 in.
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper
Signa...
Category
1950s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Quiet Contemplation: Rural Serenity in Hagborg's Watercolor
Located in Stockholm, SE
The artwork we present is a rare watercolor by the distinguished Swedish artist August Hagborg, painted in the later part of his career between 1910 and 1920. This watercolour is a departure from Hagborg's often-seen beach scenes with mussel pickers and instead offers a glimpse into a serene, pastoral moment. The scene is set against a timber house, with a man and a woman standing alongside, their gazes directed away from the viewer, which invites contemplation about the story behind their distant stares.
Watercolors by Hagborg are rare, making this piece particularly special. Its fine details suggest a mastery of the medium, likely honed over the years of his extensive career. A written letter from Göteborgs Konstmuseum, dated to the 1940s, suggests a later date for this piece.
August Hagborg, born on May 26, 1852, in Gothenburg and passed away on April 30, 1921, in Paris, was a renowned figure in the art world. His education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1871 to 1874 placed him among peers who would rise to prominence, such as Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn. Moving to Paris in the fall of 1875, Hagborg initially painted within the costume genre before finding his niche in coastal landscapes that garnered him accolades and recognition.
Hagborg's success was punctuated by his 1879 painting...
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1910s Realist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'The Artist in her Studio', Paris, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Geneva
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Marguerite Bordet' (French, 1909-2014) and painted circa 1965.
Titled, on old label, 'Le Modele'.
Previously with: Crocker Galleries, CA
From an early age, Marguerite Bordet avidly pursued both drawing and painting. In the late 1930's and early '40s, she attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris where she studied with the sculptor, Antoniucci Volti (Italian, 1915-1989). After several years, and feeling increasingly disconnected with the academic atmosphere of the Salon, she left to develop her independent artistic style.
Bordet's first public exhibition took place at the Galerie Claude (1947) and, for the next forty years, she continued to exhibit widely with success, both throughout France and internationally, including in Cairo (1955), Geneva (1960) and the United States (1966). A 1962 exhibition of her work showed a thematic rejection of the Academy's influence and the artist's shift to a more personal and spiritually driven style.
Bordet continued to take frequent study trips to Italy, especially to Florence, where she was inspired by the Renaissance Masters. She also visited England (1975-76) where the works of J.M.W.Turner and John Martin at the Tate Museum had a pronounced impact on her development.
In an interview with Hervé Serane, Marguerite Bordet described her artistic process in these words:
"I start my painting with spots. Sometimes I cover it completely and everything is dark. But then it's stronger than me, I can't bear that there isn't an opening. Immediately, I place a Light. I need the shadow to bring out the Light. So I start with the shadow to create this Light. I cannot define why I need this Light so much. It's stronger than me. It's something that dominates me without my being able to explain it intellectually. It is for me an absolute necessity to seek the Light in the darkness.. You have to open like you open a window. You have to reveal. I remove the stains that obscure my painting to find the luminous background of the canvas.... I only paint with transparent colors and I apply several layers of glaze to preserve this light."
Partial Exhibition Record:
1947 Paris, Galerie Claude
1951 Paris, Galerie Breteau - Cairo, Galerie Adam - Alexandria, l'Atelier
1954 Paris, Galerie Simone Bdinier
1955 Cairo, l'Atelier
1959 Paris, Galerie A. Weil
1960 Geneva, Galerie Motte
1962 Paris, Marignan Gallery
1964 Paris, Ror Volmar Gallery
1966 San Rafael (U.SA) International Museum
1966 Cagnes-sur-Mer, Castle Gallery...
Category
1960s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Seascape - Drawing by Pierre Fournel - Mid-20th Century
By Pierre Fournel
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape is an Original Watercolour realized by Pierre Fournel.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (45.5x35.5 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$671 Sale Price
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Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Environmental Prognostication Coil Narrative "Homo Sapiens R.I.P."
Located in Miami, FL
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," Joni Mitchell said. - - Created in 1969, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, artist Richard Erdoes draws a sequential narrative in the form of a coil. From inception to destruction, it illustrates a list of things that humans are doing to destroy the world we live in. The work was commissioned for school-age humans and executed in a whimsically comic way. Yet the underlying narrative is sophisticated and foreshadows a world that could be on the brink of ecological disaster.
Graphically and conceptually, this work exhibits an endless amount of creativity and Erdoes cartoony style is one to fall in love with.
Signed lower right. Unframed 12.4 inches Width: 12.85 inches Height is the live area. Board is 16x22 inches.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
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1960s American Realist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
Disegno figurativo fiammingo ad acquerello del XVIII secolo, scena di genere
Located in Florence, IT
Sullo sfondo di un paesaggio dai tratti centro-settentrionali europei-in cui si riconoscono una cappella e il profilo di una città dagli alti pinnacoli-si svolge una scena di svago, ...
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18th Century Other Art Style Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Chesterfield Sent to Coventry, or A Display of Military Education
Located in Middletown, NY
A wonderful 1824 preparatory drawing for a published work satirizing the famously ill-mannered 10th Hussars.
1842. Pen and ink with watercolor on watermarked J Whatman 1824 paper, 9...
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Mid-19th Century English School Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
"In Foreign Parts" Eugene Higgins, Southwestern Pueblo, Modern Figurative
By Eugene Higgins
Located in New York, NY
Eugene Higgins
In Foreign Parts, circa 1913
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 x 13 inches
Born William Victor Higgins in 1884 to a Shelbyville, Indiana farm family where the only art Victor was aware of as a child was his father's love of flowers. "He loved their forms and their colors, and he tended his garden as a painter might work a canvas." At the age of nine, Victor met a young artist who traveled the Indiana countryside painting advertisements on the sides of barns. He purchased paints and brushes so the young Higgins could practice his own artwork on the inside of his father's barn. He also taught Victor about art museums and especially about the new Chicago Art Institute. This information never left the young artist, and he saved his allowance until his father allowed him at the age of fifteen to attend Chicago Art Institute. He worked a variety of jobs to finance his studies both there and at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Victor Higgins traveled to New York in 1908, where he met Robert Henri, who became a significant influence by depicting every-day scenes and stressing the importance of the spirit and sense of place as important factors in painting. Higgins was also greatly affected by the New York Armory Modernism Show of Marsden Hartley in 1913.
While Victor Higgins was in Chicago he met former mayor and avid collector Carter H. Harrison who was to prove instrumental in the growth of Higgins career for several years. Harrison agreed to support Higgins for four years to go to Paris and Munich and paint and study in the great museums in Europe. While at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier in Paris (1910-1914) he met Walter Ufer, who was another Chicago artist being sponsored by Carter Harrison. This meeting was not only a life-long friendship, but the beginning of a great change in the way Higgins looked at "American" art. He decided that America needed it's own authentic style rather than the 19th Century classic style he was taught in Europe. Very soon after returning to Chicago in 1914, Harrison sent him and Walter Ufer on a painting trip to Taos, New Mexico for a year in exchange for paintings. Higgins made other similar agreements and was able to support himself with his painting. This trip was a life-changing experience and introduced Higgins to the authentic America he had been looking for.
In 1914 Taos was an isolated village about twelve hours from Santa Fe on an impossible dirt road. But the colorful life of the pueblo people and the natural beauty drew a collection of artists who became the Taos art colony, from which the Taos Society of Artists was founded in 1915. Victor Higgins became a permanent resident within a year of his arrival and a member of the society in 1917, exhibiting with Jane Peterson in 1925 and with Wayman Adams and Janet Scudder in 1927. The members would travel around the country introducing the Southwest scenes with great success. He remained a member until the Society's dissolution in 1927. Higgins was the youngest member of the group of seven. Other members were Joseph Henry Sharp, Bert Phillips...
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1910s American Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gustavo Simoni Merchant Abundant Orientalist Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Merchant Abundant
A merchant walks through a covered marketplace draped in rugs and holding intricately decorated knives.
Signed lower right : Gustavo Simoni
Medium: Watercolor ...
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19th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled
By Archie Gunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
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1920s Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“Siesta”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and pen drawing by the African American artist Vincent D. Smith. Signed lower right and dated 1966. Under glass. Condition is very good. The artwork is framed in...
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1960s Post-Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pen
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Wash Day
Located in Corsham, GB
Caught in fine watercolour, is this late 19th century study of two maids washing sheets in the warm summer sun. The artist has illegibly signed to the lower left and the genre scene ...
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Late 19th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$261 Sale Price
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Sea Battle - (Stories from the Edda)
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, "A Rackham" lower right
Sotheby's New York
Housed in an elegant , hi-end frame with museum glass.
Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators fr...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Central Park Zoo with Sea Lions and Animals
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
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1940s Impressionist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Danse Espagnole, Teresa Viera Romero
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Danse Espagnole" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Teresa Viera Romero, is a watercolor, on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 It is sig...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nocefresca. Colorful figurative watercolor drawing, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative watercolor on paper painting by Polish artist living in Belgium Hanna Ilczyszyn. Artwork depicts a mystic creature. Painting is colorful. It was created durin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Statue - Drawing by Paul Ingelrans - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
The Statue is a drawing in watercolor on paper realized in 1893 by Paul Ingelrans.
Monogrammed and dated.
The state of preservation is good with foxing.
The artwork represents the...
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1890s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
$340 Sale Price
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1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures Celebrating Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Figures
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on card
size: 19.5 x 13 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$539 Sale Price
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Seated Woman, Contemporary Oil and Acrylic Painting on Paper by Joan Kraisky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Kraisky, American (1949 - ) - Seated Woman, Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Paper, Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Arabian nights The Thousand and One Nights Donkey Scheherazade, Islam
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
This is a masterfully rendered and brilliantly designed scene from the Arabian Nights. page 33 from Random House. We are not sure if this is by Gustaf Tenggren. However, there are su...
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1950s Art Deco Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Seeing Don Quixote and Sancho etching, hand coloring & watercolor, signed Framed
By Santi Moix
Located in New York, NY
Santi Moix
Seeing Don Quixote and Sancho ("the famous pair"), ca. 2008
Drypoint, etching and abrasion with hand coloring with watercolor, along with graphite annotations
Hand signed ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Graphite, Drypoint, Etching
Neapolitan School Early 20th Century Gouache - View of Vesuvius
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking depiction of Mount Vesuvius erupting over the Port of Naples. Well-presented in a mottled green frame with a crisp white mount. Illegibly ...
Category
20th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$487 Sale Price
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It's All In The Bag, 3 Original Artworks On Paper, 8"x10" Each, Figurative Women
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
IT'S ALL IN THE BAG - This set of three original pencil artworks on heavy textured paper features streamlined compositions with an emphasis on the bag. The blend of detailed and expr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
Dolly’s Delight Paper Dolls
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Paper
Dimensions: 28.00" x 19.50"
Signature: Signed Center
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Early 20th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Circle of George Chinnery, 19th Century, Chinese Sumo wrestlers in a landscape
Located in Harkstead, GB
A fascinating 19th century view of Chinese Sumo wrestlers in a mountainous landscape
Circle of George Chinnery (1774-1852)
Chinese wrestlers in a land...
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Mid-19th Century English School Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$563 Sale Price
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Dwight Baird Diamond Dust from the Baseball Collection
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In the original artwork Diamond Dust, Canadian artist Dwight Baird masterfully captures the thrilling moment of suspense in a baseball game as a player slides into second base. The p...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$2,000 Sale Price
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Seated Woman Figurative Portrait
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage watercolor portrait of a seated female figure with red robe in front of a plant by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" in the lower left corner. Presented...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolour - City Harbour
Located in Corsham, GB
This atmospheric watercolour captures the essence of a bustling harbour, with moored boats in the foreground and city buildings rising hazily in the background. Unsigned. Presented i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cottages in Devon
By Samuel Prout
Located in Middletown, NY
An early Devonshire landscape, ex-collection West Collection of British Watercolors & the Fine Art Society, London.
Circa 1800
Ink and brown wash on paper, 7 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (...
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Early 1800s Realist Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Graphite
Queen Camilla, Watercolor Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
Mary Winifred Freeman (1866-1961) - Watercolour, The Pilgrimage
By Mary Winifred Freeman
Located in Corsham, GB
A vivid early 20th century watercolour by the artist Mary Winifred Freeman (1866-1961), depicting pilgrims at Lourdes. Signed to the lower left. Well presented in a gilt frame. On pa...
Category
Early 20th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Interior of a House - Ink and Watercolor Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of a house is a fine original drawing (China ink and watercolor on paper). Unsigned. This artwork could be attributed to Thomas Stothard.
In ...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$402 Sale Price
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"Let It Soak" Woman in Purple Dress with Kitchen Interior
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Let It Soak" is an original artwork made from oil on panel by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece is shipped with the picture white frame and measures...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Rome 1878 Classical Roman Architecture Figures at Fountain Signed Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rome
by Arthur A. Wilkinson (British, c.1860-1930)
signed and dated 1878
watercolor on artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 11 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection, the Cotsw...
Category
19th Century English School Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lanvin Of Paris Original c1950s 2-Sided Advertising Watercolor Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 1/2"H x 23 1/2"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Double-sided:
1) 4 Poodles
2) G...
Category
20th Century Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mughal School, 18th cent – Emperor Jahangir & Empress Nur Jahan on a Tiger Hunt
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful composition depicting Empress Nur Jahan on a tiger hunt, an act of feminism.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on brown laid paper, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (317 x 210 mm), with a floral-motif border painted in blue and oxblood, the full sheet. With extensive inscriptions in Persian written in black ink on the verso. In good condition with overall toning and minor creasing, all consistent with age. The color is rich and and fresh with bright yellow illumination. In the distance we see the Jahangir Mahal Agra, as well as a sage meditating in his hut. A beautiful composition.
Nur Jahan was fond of hunting and often went on hunting tours with her husband and was known for her boldness in hunting ferocious tigers. She is reported to have slain four tigers with six bullets during one hunt. According to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan this feat, inspired a poet to declaim a spontaneous couplet in her honor: "Though Nur Jahan be in form a woman, In the ranks of men she...
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18th Century Rajput Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
The Insomniac
Located in Pine Plains, NY
I’m telling stories. And the story and iconography support a framework that says – growing up in middle-class America. We lived this way. In a world of sentimental family portraits d...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Alongside
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'Alongside', watercolor, c. 1990. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, on off-white watercolor paper; the image extending to the sheet edges, ...
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1950s American Modern Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"The Quilt" Abstract Colorful Geometric Pattern with Nude Figures Watercolor
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary geometric abstract watercolor painting by Texas based artist Tina Ruyi. The work features a grid of hexagonal shapes similar to a traditional quilt pattern. Each hexagon...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Kachina Figures, by Dan Namingha, green, black, framed, Hopi, drawing, katsina
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Kachina Figures, by Dan Namingha, green, black, framed, Hopi, drawing, katsina
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1970s Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Desire, Watercolor and Ink on Paper, Figurative Portrait, Nude, Woman, Pose
By SarahGrace
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Desire" (2020) by SarahGrace
Watercolor and Ink on Paper; Blue, White & Black, Contour Sketch, Woman Posing, Face, Pose, Portrait, Figurative Study
Wate...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Norwegian Pine Grove - The inner glow of the trees -
Located in Berlin, DE
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (1842 Athens - 1921 Goslar), Norwegian pine grove, 1901. Watercolor on blue-green paper, 30 x 22 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed in his own hand "TvE. Fagermes [i.e. Fagermes]. 26.6.[19]01."
- Slight crease throughout at left margin, otherwise in good condition.
About the artwork
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher often traveled to Norway to study the nature that fascinated him there. On June 26, 1901, near the southern Norwegian town of Fagernes, in the summer evening sun, he saw a small pine grove, which he immediately captured in a watercolor. He exposed the trees growing on a small hill in front of the background, so that the pines completely define the picture and combine to form a tense motif. The tension comes from the contrast of form and color. The trunks, growing upward, form a vertical structure that is horizontally penetrated by the spreading branches and the pine needles, which are rendered as a plane. This structural tension is further intensified by the color contrast between the brown-reddish iridescent trunks and branches and the green-toned needlework.
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, however, does not use the observed natural scene as an inspiring model for a dance of color and form that detaches itself from the motif and thus treads the path of abstracting modernism. Its inner vitality is to be brought to light and made aesthetically accessible through the work of art.
It is precisely in order to depict the inner vitality of nature that von Eckenbrecher chooses the technique of watercolor, in which the individual details, such as the needles, are not meticulously worked out, but rather a flowing movement is created that unites the contrasts. The trees seem to have formed the twisted trunks out of their own inner strength as they grew, creatingthose tense lineations that the artist has put into the picture. The inner strength continues in the branches and twigs, culminating in the upward growth of the needles. At the same time, the trunks, illuminated by the setting sun, seem to glow from within, adding an almost dramatic dimension to the growing movement.
Through the artwork, nature itself is revealed as art. In order to make nature visible as art in the work, von Eckenbrecher exposes the group of trees so that they are bounded from the outside by an all-encompassing contour line and merge into an areal unity that enters into a figure-ground relationship with the blue-greenish watercolor paper. The figure-ground relationship emphasizes the ornamental quality of the natural work of art, which further enforces the artwork character of the group of trees.
With the presentation of Themistokles von Eckenbrecher's artistic idea and its realization, it has become clear that the present watercolor is not a study of nature in the sense of a visual note by the artist, which might then be integrated into a larger work context, but a completely independent work of art. This is why von Eckenbrecher signed the watercolor. In addition, it is marked with a place and a date, which confirms that this work of nature presented itself to him in exactly this way at this place at this time. At the same time, the date and place make it clear that the natural work of art has been transferred into the sphere of art and thus removed from the time of the place of nature.
About the artist
Themistocles' parents instilled a life of travel in their son, who is said to have spoken eleven languages. His father, who was interested in ancient and oriental culture, was a doctor and had married Francesca Magdalena Danelon, an Italian, daughter of the British consul in Trieste. During a stay in Athens - Gustav von Eckenbrecher was a friend of Heinrich von Schliemann and is said to have given him crucial clues as to the location of Troy - Themistokles saw the light of day in 1842.
After an interlude in Berlin, where Themistokles was educated at the English-American School, the journey began again. From 1850 to 1857 the family lived in Constantinople, after which the father opened a practice in Potsdam, where Themistokles, who wanted to become a painter, was taught by the court painter Carl Gustav Wegener.
In 1861 the von Eckenbrechers left Potsdam and settled in Düsseldorf. There Themistokles received two years of private tuition from Oswald Aschenbach, who greatly admired the talented young artist. After his artistic training, he undertook extensive travels, often accompanied by Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, which took him to northern and eastern Europe, but above all to the Middle East and even to South America. The paintings that resulted from these journeys established his artistic reputation and led to his participation in large panoramas such as the 118 x 15 metre Entry of the Mecca Caravan into Cairo, painted for the City of Hamburg in 1882.
1882 was also the start of a total of 21 study trips to Scandinavia, most of them to Norway, and the unique Norwegian landscape with its rugged fjords became a central motif in his work. Along with Anders Askevold and Adelsteen Normann...
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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"Edward 40 Hands", Hand drawn/painted figure on wheatpaste & collage street sign
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Edward 40 Hands" is an original contemporary wall-hanging artwork by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art . The main figure displaying classic street wear c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint
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