Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Watercolour on handmade paper possibly of a 'Fang' figure applied to Vélin d'Arches paper by French artist La Roche Laffitte. A beautifully observed and detailed study of a Fang figure in muted brown on high quality hand-made paper. An extremely chic and elegant watercolour. This contemporary artist, born in 1943, specialises in watercolour studies on hand-made paper. With his highly detailed and precisely painted studies he invites us into the magical world of cultural objects, flora and fauna. The treasures of nature along with tribal regalia is his main inspiration. All of his work is beautifully observed and executed down to the smallest detail. The Fang are a major ethnic group of Central and West Africa and form part of the population of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon. They produce monumental anthropomorphic wooden statues, used for ritual purposes, with an aesthetic that was admired from the late nineteenth century onwards by such famous modern artists as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and André Derain. Fang sculptures...

Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed, titled and dated lower front by Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Artwork size: 10 x 12 inches. Frame size: 14.5 x 15.5 inches. Artwork is overall ...

This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series VIII" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through...

Entanglement VII, 6 points in space is a unique oil on paper painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 58.5 × 41.5 cm (23 × 16.3 in). The artwork is signe...

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...

A muscular male torso with tattooed arms, holds a gun while gazing up towards the sky. The face is obscured but the viewer is drawn toward the taut, defined muscles. This piece is floated and framed in a simple black frame measuring 18.25h x 15.25w inches. Bruno Surdo Strength charcoal on paper 11h x 14w in 27.94h x 35.56w cm BRS113 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden Mike & Jill Rose SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Bruno Surdo: The Method Artist Responds, by Lucia Mauro, June 26, 2014, anitathemovie blog An Exhibition of Exhibitionism: Bruno Surdo’s ‘Respond’, by Carrie McGath, July 1, 2014, The Chicagoist Website, Arts and Entertainment “Inspired Environs: A renowned designer decks out his Loop abode in art and texture” Modern Luxury, Men’s Book, Spring 2014 “Master Class” What’z Up Magazine, Fort Wayne, 2011 ”9/11 Painting will be on Display” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 2011 “Illuminated Images” Fort Wayne Reader, 2011 “Two Faces of Beauty” American Art Collector Magazine, Issue #3 and #59, 2006/2010 “Art and Calamity” Art Papers, 2009 “Versions of the Present, Techniques of the Past” American Artist Magazine, 2004 “Living Artists” Crow Book Publishing, Chicago, IL 2004 “The New Master” by Craig Keller, Chicago Social Magazine, 2004. “Tragedy, Memory, and Honor,” by William Hageman, Chicago Tribune, March 28, 2002 “Mural Depicts Tragedy of 9/11” Art Section, Chicago Sun Times, 2002 Review by Dennis Raverty, Art Papers Magazine, July 2001 WTTW Channel 11...

Contemporary figurative watercolor on paper painting by Polish artist living in Belgium Hanna Ilczyszyn. Artwork depicts a horse. Painting is colorful. It was created during art resi...

Fish Net, 2020, gel pen paper, figurative, drawing, black, white, pink, blue, spider, web, ant

Remains (Body in the Field 14), 2022 oil on paper 16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in. 42 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism ...

This is a hand drawn original artwork on heavyweight paper by internet sensation mad charcoal He is represented by Krause Gallery NYC Ships rolled in a ...

Colorful watercolor of Reverend Gary Davis (aka "Blind Gary Davis") by Santa Cruz artist Brian Rounds (b. 1968). Set against a bright orange background, Dav...

An uncanny and unexpected pose characterizes this work as Julius Ceasar warily looks over his shoulder and blood-stained toga. Signed lower right "M. Gl...

Portrait of Woman is a drawing realized in the early 20th century by an Anonymous French artist. Pencil on paper. The state of preservation is good. The artwork is represented thr...

The Cartographer, 2021 collage on paper 50 H x 35 W cm Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces of paper,...

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...

As a reflection on the value we give to objects, this series exposes examples of objects that we use daily and for different reasons ended up gaining very high prices. By redrawing t...

The artwork is in simple white frames behind plexi. The full signature is on the back of the drawing Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at the Un...

'Small Boat and Bather in Dinard', gouache and charcoal on art paper, by French artist, Jean Pons (1961). Painted in a naïve style, the piece dep...

Medium: Gouache and Ink on Paper Dimensions: 17.50" x 10.75" Signature: Signed Lower Right

SUSIE Q. SMITH Medium: Newspaper comics Distributed by: King Features Syndicate First Appeared: 1945 Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter 6.5 X 18 Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be. Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant...

An everyday situation, from our memory, from the memory of childhood in a non-place, that is to say, an enigmatic ephemeral place, a space that is delimited and that grows, that mult...

Gouache on paper Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of...

Figures is a modern artwork realized by Francisco Bores in 1950. Charcoal drawings. Good conditions.

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...

Nu Assis Pen and India ink on textured paper 34.5 x 21.5 cm With a few controlled lines and ink drips, Grégoire Mathias captures the essence of a seated female form. Nu Assis is a s...

Island for Umberto 01, 2014 Pencil on paper ( Signed and dated front lower-right corner, framed) 11.6 H x 16.5 W in. 29.5 H x 42 W cm "Island for Umberto" has the literary source in...

Four pencil drawings, each with hand coloring in watercolor, each 6 3/4 x 10 inches (sheet) (172 x 254 mm), full margins. Each with inscriptions and notations by the artist in the up...

French Coastal Scene in Brittany with a merchant ship onloading fish and people by an unknown artist. A sailing vessel is anchored at a beach. A r...

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...

Nana Williams' "Sphynx Moths" created in 2024, is an original handmade watercolor painting made on hot press watercolor paper that depicts a sphynx cat with two moths. This piece mea...

English School, 18th century Pen and black ink with gray wash on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 5 inches (238 x132 mm). 1/4 inch repaired loss, top center, to the left of the figure’s h...

This artwork presents a striking and abstract portrayal of a seated woman rendered with bold and expressive brushstrokes. This painting makes part of the series dedicated to "Women"....

Poster Sketch for fashion advertising for FACIS, Italian Pret-a-Porter company. Italian Pop art Water-colour, ink and pencil on paper. Size with black ...

Gouache on paper Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of...

Likely a study for an illustration for Harper's Weekly, for which Wiser was a Civil War-era illustrator, focusing on shipwrecks and battles occurring along the mid-Atlantic coast. ...

ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944) Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...

English School, 19th century. Baths at Caracalla, Rome. 1852. Ink wash in brown ink on cream wove paper, 9 7/8 x 13 inches (250 x 330 mm), titled and dated in brown ink, lower right...

Contemporary figurative female nude crayon on paper drawing by Leszek 'Maestro' Zegalski. Artwork depicts a woman with a fantastic creature stanting next to her. This drawing is quit...

Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...

This drawing titled "Low Gap Shelter, Georgia, [ 34.77624, -83.8245 ]" is an original artwork by Sarah Kaizar made of silver leaf, pen and ink. Drawing from her experience hiking the Appalachian trail...

Italian painter Silvia Pavarini is known for her distinctly feminine artworks that resonate with the quiet whispers of nature. Each piece she creates ...

This piece titled "RUDE I" is an original artwork made from pencil and ink on paper by Jasjyot Singh Hans. This piece measures 15.5"h x 12.5"w framed. Jasjyot Singh Hans is an illustrator unendingly inspired by an explosive neon mix of fashion, music and pop culture. He has a constant regard for things past and a voracity for all that is current. He studied animation film design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and has an MFA in Illustration Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. His work chronicles around themes of body image...

"Faded" is an original oil pastel, ballpoint pen, and graphite on arches paper work by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece ships float-mounted in the pictured white frame. The paper measure...

Nude Female Torso in Charcoal on Paper Nude woman laying down by Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist Heather Speck (American, b. 1978). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collectio...

In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...

Large Watercolour of Pleasure Boats Moored on the River in Florida by USA Artist David Coolidge AWS (American 20th-21st Century) Art measures 40 x 30 i...

The House is a modern artwork realized by in the 19 th century Charcoal drawings. Good conditions 

Watercolor on archival paper 23 x 17 inches in white-painted custom wood frame with 8ply mat 19 x 13 inches unframed This whimsical watercolor drawing on archival paper was made by the creative duo Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick as part of their series "Madame Lulu's Book of Fate", wherein the artists celebrate the carnivalesque with a cast of peculiar costumed characters. In this illustration, a humble wagon, humorously dubbed a "chariot", is transporting an assortment of theatrical props and trunks. A close look will reveal yet another curiosity: a pair of bare feet supporting and propelling the chariot. A subdued palette of sienna, beige, rose and umber unifies the composition, and the artists' highly stylized approach adds an almost vintage...

This wall-hanging artwork titled "Dead King 25 [15th Century Sapa Inca]" is an original artwork by Kate Glasheen made of pen and ink on archival paper. This ...

Pencil on cream laid paper, 10 x 8 3/4 inches (254 x 222 mm). Uniform age tone, scattered surface soiling, and handling wear. One pea-sized area of skinning in the top-center sheet ...

Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951) Graphite on paper Partner Exchange (2001) Framed 21 X 14.5 sheet 13.75 X 7.25 Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker...

Framed Size 28.5 x 21 Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...

The artist has always liked divas and femmes-fatales. "My grandmothers spoke often of these actresses and admired them openly as if they were real. They created a collective imaginat...

The red series are vermilion drawings with cotton/diya baati wicks used in prayer, the fruit of the artist's longstanding preoccupation with gender, religion and rituals. The interfe...

"Where the River Runs" (2024) by Mo Myra is a watercolor painting on paper that depicts a dead tree next to a creek on a stormy day. Mo Myra, born in 1990, is a Connecticut-based ar...

Figure is an original drawing in watercolored china ink on ivory-colored paper realized by the French artist Madeleine Scellier (1928). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin. T...

This is a hand drawn original artwork on heavyweight paper by internet sensation mad charcoal He is represented by Krause Gallery NYC Ships rolled in a ...

Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Original three parrots drawing, 1984 Original parrots drawing done in ink with inscription held inside elegant hardback monograph with ...

"Paradise" Watercolor Abstract Painting 10" x 14" inch by Shaker El Maadawy signed & dated Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his nati...

"Seated Figure" Nude in Pastel and Color Pencil on Paper Beautiful modern figure drawing of a nude woman by Bay Area Artist George Wishon (Ameri...