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Medium: Paper
Temple Official
Located in London, GB
'Temple Official', pencil and watercolour on paper by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1882). This is the artist's portrait of a financial official in a Cantonese temple in Guangzhou, China in the latter half of the 19th century. His garment is typical of that of a senior civil servant of the Chinese government. Clothes were designed to indicate rank and status, becoming so distinct that the wearer’s position could be ascertained at a glance. During his second career as an artist, Pritchett traveled widely in the Pacific region in the 1880s. This artwork has been professionally restored and cleaned to preserve it for decades to come and therefore in good overall condition. It has also been newly framed and glazed. The artist has written 'The Treasurer & Temple' and '5 Geni Temple, Canton Jan. 22 1882' on the lower left and right hands of the artwork. Upon request a video of the work may be provided. About the Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett (1823 - 1907), a gun maker and artist, was the son of Richard Ellis...
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1880s Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Surrealist Large Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Horse Pink Blue
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024. Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow. Artwork Details: Horse of Hope, 122x152cm, Collaged woodblock print, acrylic ink on Somerset satin paper, 2023 Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown In Isabel's own words: Horse of Hope The world had become a sad grey place, mud, empty plains with bleak, loveless sky as far as the eye could see. It seemed that all was lost of the old world. Until one day a whisper began on the breeze, so quiet that you could hardly hear it. But it grew stronger and stronger until the trembled with the sound. 'The horse of hope is coming, the horse of hope is coming!' The horse of hope had arrived, its dainty hooves tapping along the way. Where there had been nothing but emptiness the horse trod and from its feet sprung new life and hope. The world became a lush carpet under its footsteps. Up sprang greenery, pushing its tendrils to the sky. Blue irises reached out their twisted delicate petals welcoming the new life in. Strong, dark foliage grew and grew, and with this creatures began to return from their hiding places. Out from rocks and stones they came, for there was hope once again and the world buzzed with new life. *Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free. About Isabel Rock and her work: Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations. Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen

Art Deco Black Stallion and Wood Nymph Drawing by Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972) Untitled Study, 1942 Pencil on paper 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1942 A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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1940s Art Deco Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Portrait of a Young Girl
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Girl', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pa...
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1920s Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Dreaming - original large blue nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Dreaming”, pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series. Nude shown in a Victorian interior, in a cinematic view. In a distorted per...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera, Pencil, Archival Paper

Sir David Muirhead Bone, A Mediterranean evening on a P & O cruise liner
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully evocative scene of a passenger looking out to sea on the deck of an ocean liner - from the golden age of cruising. Sir David Muirhead Bone On a P & O, Mediterranean ev...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"House Studies Series I", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architecture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series I" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite

Drawing 14, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. Krzysztof Gliszczyński born in Miastko in 1962. Graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski. Between 1995 and 2002 founder and co-manager of Koło Gallery in Gdańsk. lnitiator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, con-ferred by the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Gdańsk Chapter. Dean of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2008-2012. Vice Rector for Development and Cooperation of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2012-2016. Obtained a professorship in 2011. Currently head of the Third Painting Studio of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts. He has taken part in a few dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has received countless prizes and awards for his artistic work. He is active in the field of painting, drawing, objects, and video. Artist Statement In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Paysage Minimal, Original Pastel Drawing, Seascape, Sea Landscape, Trees
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : New Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. The work has been treated with an anti-UV varnish and it is not framed. Medium : Soft Pastel on ARCHES paper 300Gsm, 100%...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper

"No One Cares", Hand drawn/painted bear figure on mixed media street sign
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"No One Cares" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo "No One Cares" is an original contemporary wall-hanging artwork by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint

Designers Maria Cornejo and Mark Borthwick in Brooklyn, NY. watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design. The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Family Dinner Time 1932 American Classic Interior Design
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic Interior design and Family Dinner by Architectural Digest illustrator David Mode Payne (American, 1907-1985). The scene depicted is an interio...
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1930s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS), 3.2 M (ACTION COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Triptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS), 3.2 M (ACTION COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Triptych, 2023 by Rodrigo Spinel From the series Currency Chinese ink on Fabriano pap...
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2010s Abstract Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Peru Peak, Vermont, [ 43.3012, -72.95184 ]
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Peru Peak, Vermont, [ 43.3012, -72.95184 ]" is an original pen and ink, and acrylic wash artwork by Sarah Kaizar measuring 24"h x 30"w framed. It’s an off-beat, diverse community t...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pen

Air Mail hand drawn postcard signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This unique handmade Christmas card was crafted by renowned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon and personally mailed to his good friend, Evelyne Farland. Folon, known for his whimsical...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Postcard, Color Pencil

Young boy giving flowers to his girlfriend, German early 20th century
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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Early 1900s Victorian Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

“Arc de Triomphe, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel with graphite tracing of a lively Paris street scene in front of the iconic Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The artist is the well known French artist, Andre Vignoles. ...
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1960s Post-Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite

Blue Nudes IV, Ink on Paper Drawing, Blue & White, Figurative Study Women, Faces
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Blue Nudes IV" (2019) by SarahGrace Ink on Paper Drawing, Blue & White, Women, Faces, Figurative Study Drawing / Nude / Human Figure / Figurative Art / Feminist Art and Contemporar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Alexander Calder, Handwritten, signed letter, from Sache near Tours, France
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder Handwritten, signed letter, 1956 Ink on paper: 2 page handwritten and hand signed letter Hand signed by Calder at the end of the letter on the second page. Unique 11...
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1950s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper

Pitcher, Dodger Catcher and baseball field positions, 3 drawings by Ronald Searl
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Ronald Searle, CBE HRWS (British, 1920 – 2011) Pitcher; The Dodger’s catcher; and a drawing of the field positions on the day A set of three baseball studies Pencil on paper 5.1/4 x ...
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20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Portrait of an Old Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of an old man done in charcoal by California artist Ralph Edward Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Signed "R. Joosten 82" lower right. Pre...
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1980s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Cart with Oxen - Original Pencil and Watercolor on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cart with Oxen is an original modern artwork realized in the half of the early 20th Century. Original mixed media artwork: tempera, watercolor, china ink and pencil on cardboard. V...
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20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper, Tempera, Pencil

Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Blue Pink
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024. Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow. Artwork Details: Porthole to Another Dimension, 168x153cm, woodblock print, acrylic ink, acrylic paint, 2020 * Please note this artwork is on two separate pieces of paper that have been joined together. The join is not obvious when looking at the work. At the time Isabel was desperate to make the piece but did not have a large enough piece of paper in the studio, so she joined two together. Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown In Isabels own words: Porthole to Another Dimension The legend said, that down by the river, beneath the purple hills, where the black iris...
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2010s Surrealist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut

Bodegon II - Contemporary, Still Life, Fruits, Light Blue, Yellow, Banana, Lemon
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Bodegon II, 2014 Tempera on paper (Signed, Framed) 27 3/5 H × 39 2/5 W in. 70 H x 100 W cm On the subject of his new works the artist stated: “There is not enough orange, yellow and...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Tempera

English School, 19th Century, Victorian rustic scene, Thatched cottage
Located in Harkstead, GB
A delightful rustic scene from the Victorian period with figures chatting outside a thatched cottage English School, mid 19th Century Figures conversing by a cottage and stream Wat...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Georgian Contemporary Art by Eter Merkviladze - Acrobats’ Aesthetic
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on a watercolor paper Eter Merkviladze is a Georgian female artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated from Robert Schuman European Schoo...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

View of Tallinn, Estonia - Figurative Landscape Panoramic Charcoal Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
A sweeping view of Tallinn, Estonia by an unknown artist (20th Century). This detailed charcoal landscape drawing shows a panorama of the beautiful coastal city on the Baltic Sea, complete with small figures walking on a pier, boats in the harbor, and the iconic Alexander Nevsky...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Venice, gondola on a stop. Watercolor, Realistic, Classic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary watercolor painting on paper by Polish artist Wlodzimierz Karczmarzyk. Marine painting depicting boats on a water. Artwork's style is sketch-like but realistic at the sa...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

The sprinkling of defiled persons (drawing)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an original drawing on paper by Hunter Stabler measuring 12”h x 12”w x 2.5”d framed. The piece is made from graphite, ink, transfer paper and Gelly Roll® pen on paper. Hunter Stabler was born in Jefferson City, Missouri and was raised in upstate South Carolina. He received a BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute, College of Art and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Art at Louisiana State University. His work has been widely exhibited across the United States and internationally including exhibitions at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, NY, The Shelburne Art Museum in Shelburne, VT, the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ, and the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY. His hand-cut paper artwork has been published in the books High Touch: Tactile Design and Visual Explorations, Push Paper, Strangers in the Nest (a book of Poems by Anselm Berrigan, Letterpress printed with images accompanying each poem), and published in Laminate Magazine, First Look Magazine, and American Craft Magazine. He was named “Philadelphia’s Next Hot...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite

Blue Nude 1 - original tempera on paper by Paula Craioveanu inspired by Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Blue Nude. Inspired by Matisse. Part of my "Nude in Interior" series Original, signed. 50x70cm / 20x28in actual size ink, graphite, tempera on pa...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Tempera

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Paper Drawing Profile Palette 426.006
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Palette 426.006 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic on Paper Drawing Profile Palette 426.006 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and...
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1970s Feminist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic

Marina units. Watercolor, Realistic, Classic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary watercolor painting on paper by Polish artist Wlodzimierz Karczmarzyk. Marine painting depicting boats on a water. Artwork's style is sketch-like but realistic at the sa...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Framed Art Nouveau Period Painting A Greek Love Affair Theseus And Ariadne
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Follower of Antoine Calbet. French ( b.1860 - d.1944 ). Theseus and Ariadne, Circa 1890 - 1910. Mixed Media. Watercolour, Gouache & Pastel Image size 16.5 inches x 11.2 inches ( 42cm...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache

Original-London St. Pancras-UK Artist-Rare watercolour & ink on collaged paper
Located in London, GB
This Ink and watercolour masterpiece is featured in Bloomsbury's 2011 publication, showcasing the artist's sketchbook (Note 1). Created en plein air, Shizico Yi painted this piece in...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers 1932
Located in New York, NY
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers. Dated and signed "32 Harry Gottlieb" lower right. Sight: 13 1/8" H x 18 1/4" W. Harry Gottlieb, painter, screenprinter, educator, and lithographer, was born in Bucharest, Rumania. He emigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis. From 1915 to 1917, Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. After a short stint as an illustrator for the U.S. Navy, Gottlieb moved to New York City; he became a scenic and costume designer for Eugene O"Neill's Provincetown Theater Group. He also studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. He was one of America's first Social Realist painters, influenced by that Robert Henri-led movement in New York City where Gottlieb settled in 1918. He was also a pioneer in screen printing, which he learned while working for the WPA. He married Eugenie Gershoy, and the couple joined the artist colony at Woodstock, New York. He lectured widely on art education. In 1923, Gottlieb settled in Woodstock, New York and in 1931, spent a a year abroad studying under a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1935, he joined the Federal Art Project...
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1930s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Portrait of artist Ida Bagoes Ketut Diding, Bali, 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Ida Bagoes Ketut Diding, Artist on bali 1937 Signed with initials, dated and titled, bottom centre Black chalk on paper, 29 x 31 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W....
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1930s Art Nouveau Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Wheeler Williams Classical Figure Study for Twilight
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972) Study for Twilight, 1947 Pencil on paper 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947 Inscribed: Study for Twilight A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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1940s Art Deco Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

A Drawing of a ca. 1930s Bicycle Race by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for your cycling enthusiast! A 1930s charcoal on paper drawing of a bicycle race by artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 11" x 14". Archivally matted to 16" x 20". Provenance: Estate of the artist. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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1930s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

The Sketch Class, Figurative Study Line Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive line drawing figure study featuring a group of figures in a classroom by David Rosen (Canadian, 1912-2004). Unsigned, but was acquire...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pen, Watercolor

The Thinker
Located in Miami, FL
A large charcoal-on-paper rendering by arguably one of America's most influential artists. It comes from the pioneering Allan Stone Galleries, who ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Portraits with Borsalino - Drawing by Louis Emile Adan - early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Getting Rest is a drawing realized by Luis Emile Adan in the early 20th Century. Pastel on ivory-colored paper. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

'After the Bacchanal', Contemporary Bay Area figural
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Vanessa Stafford' (American, born 1954) and dated 1982. Vanessa Stafford received her Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from San Jose State University. She ...
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1980s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pen

29.4M. CRYPTO PUNK AND 15M RINGERS. Diptych Drawings on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
As a reflection on the value we give to objects, this series exposes examples of objects that we use daily and for different reasons end up gaining very high prices. By redrawing the...
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2010s Abstract Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Mid Century Seated Nude Figure Study (unfinished)
Located in Soquel, CA
Seated nude figure study by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Yeager work directly from the estate. This piece is on heavy bond paper with ragged edges and is unfinished. No frame. Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...
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1960s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Vintage Figurative Landscape -- Sleeping Among the Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling figurative nude with a surrealist feel by Ken Bower (American, 20th-C) a San Francisco Bay area artist. Pastel chalk color on paper created in 1980. Signed “Ken Bower 80' ...
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1980s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Chalk, Pastel

Chef Pasta - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Chef Pasta - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor A charming illustration, by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows a chef in an 1800's toque blanche, pouring oil from an ornate bottle over a bowl. His face, with spectacles, a moustache and goatee in fine line work, is painted in vibrant pink watercolor for an added splash of color. Signed in the bottom right corner, "i.p." Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing. Mat size: 8.5"H x 11"W Paper size: 6.75"H x 6.75"W Image size: 4.13"H x 3.63"W Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999) studied at the California School of Fine Art (now The San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco State College and The Marion Hartwell School of Design. She was President of the San Francisco Woman Artists Association 1955-56. Provenance: The Artist, Estate of Irene Pattinson: David Carlson; Estate of Larry Miller Fine Art, Robert Azensky Fine Art. Solo Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery 1955; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961 (39 works). Selected Group Exhibitions: San Francisco Art Association Annual 1948, 54, 55; San Francisco Woman Artists, 1957-1960; Oakland Art Museum Annual, 1951, 58; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960; Richmond Art Center, 1955, 56, 57, 58; San Francisco Art Institute 1959, 60. The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62, 63; Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963. Awards: First Place, San Francisco Woman Artists Assoc., 1957, 1959; San Francisco Art Festival 1957;Literature: San Francisco Art Institute - A catalog of the Art Ban 1962/63; San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection Exhibitions: 1963 The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA 1963 California Palace of The Legion of Honor: Forth Winter Invitational, San Francisco, CA 1962 The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA 1961 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1960 California...
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1950s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Window onto the Sea, Original Drawing, Contemporary Landscape, Architecture
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. The work has been treated with UV-resistant varnish and it is not framed. Medium : Watercolour, Soft Pastel and Oil based col...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor

The Death of Napoleon - Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Death of Napoleon is a drawing realized in the mid-20th century by an Italian Anonymous artist. Black marker on paper. Titled in Italian on the lower. The state of preservatio...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Art Nouveau German watercolor of children dancing in a landscape
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 Art Nouveau Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand. Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920". Unframed. Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W. Right corner has a crease from being bent. Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin. In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910). In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor. In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland. His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
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1920s Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board

Dog - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Dog is a Black Marker Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a little sheet of a notebook. No Signature. Reynold Ar...
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1970s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Permanent Marker

Children 13 - Contemporary Figurative Drawing, Black And White, Realism, Boat
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey "Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting Travellers round the Camp Fire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Camp Fire Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) signed original watercolor painting on board, unframed size: 10.75 x 15 inches co...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Masked - blue nude - by Paula Craioveanu - original art inspired by Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Masked Part of my Blue Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper. Masked Nude was part of solo show "Nude in Interior" see pi...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Tempera

Summer Blue - original large blue nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27.5in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Summer Blue", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series. Nude shown in a Victorian interior, in a cinematic view. In a distorted ...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera, Pencil, Archival Paper

Barnyard Chat
By John B. Lear
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper Signed and dated, l.r. 13.5 x 10.5 inches, sheet 21.25 x 17.25 inches, frame This drawing is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. John Lear is an America...
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1990s American Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Found - Original Abstract Yellow and Black Figurative Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Melissa Chalhoub, a 2014 graduate of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, seamlessly navigates the realms of cinema and visual art. With a background in directing and sound design for ...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Merged - Original Abstract Figurative Colorful Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Melissa Chalhoub, a 2014 graduate of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, seamlessly navigates the realms of cinema and visual art. With a background in directing and sound design for ...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

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