Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
to
795
3,531
1,127
928
420
264
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
110
366
2,957
2,840
64
74
109
252
160
171
246
279
216
144
65
1,801
1,405
270
265
131
129
109
96
58
50
45
41
20
19
3,733
2,294
226
4,307
2,260
2,221
1,631
1,439
889
859
849
542
306
243
241
215
210
209
182
162
138
136
117
6,462
6,274
5,595
4,451
4,097
188
116
68
65
50
1,894
1,499
3,032
2,572
Medium: Paper
Sketches - Drawing by Alexandre Lagrant - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is a drawing artwork realized by Alexandre Lagrant in the early 20th Century
Pencil and ink drawing on paper.
The state of preservation is good with some foxing, folding, ...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Ink & Pencil Drawing - A Engrossing Evening
Located in Houston, TX
ink and pencil drawing on transfer paper of two couple enjoying an amorous evening out by Irmgard von Reppert, circa 1960. Initialed lower right. Artist title and comment pasted lowe...
Category
1960s Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Ink, Paper
$260 Sale Price
20% Off
"Danielle" Nude Figurative Drawing in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold nude pastel drawing by Albert Hutson (American, 1923-1994). A woman is reclined on a soft red surface, leaning up against a yellow pillow. The model is skillfully sketched, with quick but confident marks. Hutson has captured the character of the model in her expression and posture, both of which appear relaxed and natural.
Al Hutson retired from military service in 1974, moved to San Francisco, and enrolled in art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1978 he earned his BFA degree with distinction in drawing and painting. His work as a figurative artist was in the medium of pastel drawing, and he had an intense and abiding affinity for works on paper.
Signed, dated, and titled twice in the lower right corner ("Al Hutson Danielle 89")
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size:
Paper size: 19.75"H x 25.5"W
Albert L. Hutson (American, 1923-1994) had two careers: first as a professional military officer, and second as an artist and member of the Board of the Graphic Arts Council in San Francisco. He was born in 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia, into a family with a long military tradition. His father and maternal grandfather were Annapolis graduates, and his paternal grandfather served in the Civil War. Colonel Hutson graduated from Staunton Military Academy in 1941 shortly after World War II began. He later earned an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Nebraska in the late 1960s. As a young second lieutenant in World War II, he served with the First Armored Division in the Italian Campaign, starting with the Battle of Anzio, and participated in the liberation of Rome. His interest in art began at this time when his commanding officer introduced him to Italian art.
Al Hutson retired from military service in 1974, moved to San Francisco, and enrolled in art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1978 he earned his BFA degree with distinction in drawing and painting. His work as a figurative artist was in the medium of pastel drawing, and he had an intense and abiding affinity for works on paper. A graduate of the Fine Arts Museums docent [tour guide...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Polo Match At Cirencester Cotswolds Player Leading Pony Framed Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Elin Siân Blake.
Welsh ( b.1981).
Polo Match, Cirencester, Player Leading Pony.
Watercolor On Paper.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 11.2 inches x 15.4 inches ( 28.5cm x 39cm ).
Frame size 16.9 inches x 20.9 inches ( 43cm x 53cm ).
Available for sale; this original painting is by the contemporary Welsh artist Elin Sian Blake.
The watercolor is presented and supplied in a glazed sympathetic frame (which is shown in these photographs) and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The watercolor is signed lower right.
Elin Siân Blake is a contemporary Brecon-based artist, originally from the South Wales valleys, whose work delves deeply into the rich tapestry of Welsh heritage. Through various mediums, she creates poignant reflections of societal and cultural issues that have shaped the Welsh identity.
Born in 1981, Elin Siân Blake began producing commissioned artwork from an early age, focussing on the traditional Welsh ponies and landscapes of her childhood. She was particularly inspired by the agricultural and equestrian events she attended. As a teenager she spent all her spare money on art supplies. Blake graduated from the University of Glamorgan in 2002 with a degree in graphic design and illustration, but quickly realised that she wanted to create conventional paintings, rather than producing digital images. She then spent several years living on the road in vintage vehicles, painting the scenes and characters she encountered on her travels.
Blake taught herself oil painting using library...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
French Fashion Sketch - Fur Trimmed Evening Dress
Located in Houston, TX
Unique pencil and gouache fashion sketch of a slim and flowing blue evening dress trimmed in white fur, circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bo...
Category
1930s Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Pencil
Le Charreau by Grégoire Mathias – Cubist graphite study of a Dordogne château
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Le Charreau
Graphite on paper
27.4 × 21 cm
Intricate pencil study capturing the façade of Le Charreau, a château in Saint-Médard, Dordogne, through a cubist-inspired lens. Greg Mat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nude - Original China Ink Drawing by Tibor Gertler - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a beautiful drawing in China ink applied on paper realized by Tibor Gertler in 1948
In good condition except for some foldings.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
the artwor...
Category
1940s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Mirror - Drawing by Henri Guydo - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mirror is a drawing realized Henri Guydo in the early 20th Century.
Pen and pastel ivory-colored paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through de...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
"Twilight Colored Pencil" - Original Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Twilight Colored Pencil" - Original Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
Original charcoal and pastel drawing of a man and woman looking off into the distance. Their backs are to the viewe...
Category
1950s Post-War Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Clown Portrait #8
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "Blake" in the lower left corner. Unframed.
Marjorie May Gulley Blake wa...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$276 Sale Price
30% Off
Nude Female Torso in Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Red Wind - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Red Wind is an artwork realized by the Contemporary an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Watercolor drawing on paper.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Flower Market - Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Flower Market - Original Watercolor on Paper
Original watercolor of a flower seller by Ken L. Stephens (American. 20th Century). A flower vendor is wearing a blue apron, standing un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Artist Cindy Sherman discovers Instagram - Watercolor on paper
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
2010s Pop Art Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper
The Journals of Susanna Moodie 57/100 - original, illustrated book of poems
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A rare and original illustrated boxed folio of The Journals of Susanna Moodie, arguably Margaret Atwood’s finest work of poetry. In it, she adopts the ...
Category
1980s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Geometrical Bird - Original Watercolor and Pencil on Paper - 1950s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Geometrical Bird is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s..
Original Mixed Media on paper. Watercolor and pencil.
Passeparto...
Category
1970s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Birds - Drawing by Arturo Pagano - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Birds is a modern artwork realized by Arturo Pagano in the 1980s.
Watercolor drawings.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles".
Unsigned and undated. Matting included.
Very good conditions.
Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957.
Category
1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Fire (Tortoise Spirit), 2018, figurative, orange yellow, drawing, tribal, MarYah
By Jay Golding
Located in Jersey City, NJ
China marker on smooth bristol paper. Jay Golding’s realistic portrait and figure drawings/paintings are inspired primarily by Indigenous culture and heritage but are not limited to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
"Nature Walk" Forest Landscape in Watercolor on Paper, with Note from the Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Nature Walk" Forest Landscape in Watercolor on Paper, with Note from the Artist
Dramatic sunset landscape by notable watercolorist Douglas W. Trowbridge (American, b. 1960).
Signe...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
White Fuchsia (flower) - line drawing woman figure with white, purple flower
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size.
This is the "Many thoughts, one head" series. The...
Category
2010s Minimalist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Election Year Portrait 1
Located in Dallas, TX
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,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Monoprint
Portrait - Original Drawing - 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a pencil drawing on paper realized in the early 20th Century
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced compositions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Waves Over Rocks Seascape and Seagulls
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous watercolor seascape of waves over rocks by Donald Swyner (American, 20th Century), circa 1990. Signed lower left corner. Presented in rustic wood frame. Shipped without glas...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$780 Sale Price
35% Off
Portrait - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Color Markers Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a white sheet of a notebook.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was bo...
Category
1970s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Playing - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Playing is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Minimalistic, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mid-Century Hillside Trees Landscape Watercolor (unfinished)
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century landscape watercolor with a tall, stately tree in the foreground, its many forking branches depicted with exceptional detail, and a verdant background of rollin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$656 Sale Price
25% Off
Nude Woman - Original Pencil on Paper by French Artist- 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Women is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by an Anonymous french artist of the XX century.
The state of preservation: aged with diffused foxings and foldings.
...
Category
20th Century Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
William Heath Robinson original drawing, British early 20th Century
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Heath Robinson (British, 1872 - 1944)
'Boring The First Tunnel With An Early Type Of Rotary Excavator, And The Red Flag', circa 1935 (railway ribaldry was published in this year)
The former signed 'W. Heath Robinson (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower left and right)
The former to mount 14 X 10.1/4in. (35.5 X 26cm.)
The latter 1.1/2 X 8.1/2in. (3.8 X 21.6 cm.)
Literature: Railway Ribaldry, first published by the Great Western Railway, Paddington, 1935.
William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives.
During the First World War, he drew large numbers of cartoons, depicting ever-more unlikely secret weapons being used by the combatants. In the UK the term "Heath Robinson" entered popular language during this time as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Its continuing popularity was undoubtedly linked to Second World War Britain's shortages and the need to "make do and mend".
In the course of his work, Robinson also wrote and illustrated three childrens books including The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902) which is regarded as the genesis of his depiction of unlikely machines.
The inventions he drew were frequently powered by steam boilers or kettles, heated by candles or a spirit lamp and usually kept running by balding, bespectacled men in overalls. There would be complex pulley arrangements, threaded by lengths of knotted string.
One of his most famous series of illustrations accompanied the first Professor Branestawm book written by Norman Hunter. The stories provided a perfect backdrop for Robinson's drawings.
One of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park during the Second World War to assist in the decryption of German message traffic was named "Heath Robinson" in his honour.
He died in September 1944 during the Second World War and is buried in East Finchley Cemetery.
The Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner opened in October 2016 to house a collection of nearly 1,000 original artworks owned by The William Heath Robinson Trust.
In the Wallace and Gromit...
Category
20th Century Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Art Deco Polo Mural Study Signed by Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1944 (Polo Players)
Pencil on paper
15 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1944
Artist studio label verso
Inscribed on mat:
Drawings for Proposed Murals: Polo Room, Hotel Plaza....
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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Sunrise at Mount Fuji, black and white charcoal drawing of mountains in Japan
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal on paper drawing by Toronto-based artist Katherine Curci. Unframed.
Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Secret. 2023., gouache, paper, 17. 5 x 24 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Secret. 2023., gouache, paper, 17. 5 x 24 cm
With defect, one corner has a bend.
Ansis Butnors (1977)
Education:
J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996.
Latvian Academy of...
Category
2010s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Shell oil advertising study in crayon & pencil on paper by British Rex Whistler
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A unique and early Shell advertising study from The Shell Archive by early 20th century British illustrator Rex John Whistler.
The details of the work a...
Category
20th Century Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
"Persepective", Pigments Watercolor Acrylic Paper Drawing
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Titled "Perspective", this artwork created by Frank Girard, utilizes pigments, Chinese ink, watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencils on 400g/m2 neutral white paper. It remains unfr...
Category
2010s Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Pigment
$830 Sale Price
20% Off
Old man in front of a mirror / - Diffusion -
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Berlin, DE
Ruth Schloss (1922 Nuremberg - 2013 Kfar Shmaryahu), Old man in front of a mirror, around 1990. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 33.5 cm x 40 cm, signed “Schloss” lower left and agai...
Category
1990s Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
"Elite Workers", Small-Scale Modern Figural Collage w Watercolor by Dick Crispo
By Dick Crispo
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern small-scale watercolor and collage, a mixed media composition featuring a modified photograph with colorful watercolor accents by Dick Crispo (American, b. 1945). Titled "Elite Workers" at the top. Signed and dated "D. Crispo 87" in the lower left corner. Presented in a cream mat with foamcore backing. No frame. Paper size: 10"H x 7"W
Dick Crispo, born in New York City on January 13, 1945, has resided on the Monterey Peninsula since 1955. An award winning artist, Crispo has studied at the Carmel Art Institute under John Cunningham and Sam Colburn...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Magazine Paper, Photographic Paper, Pen
Pre-Raphaelite, early 19th Century drawing by the British artist Lord Leighton
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Lord Frederick Leighton (British, 1830-1896)
A Medieval Allegory
pencil on paper
the fragment measures approx. 19.1/2 x 13 in.
(49.5 x 33 cm.)
Provenance: Gifted by Leighton to his cousin Edith Emily Jellicorse, nee Garnham, and thence by descent.
We would like to thank Daniel Robins, the curator at Leighton House for the authenticating this work in full.
Daniel has suggested this study would have been executed when Leighton was studying in Frankfurt
Leighton was born in Scarborough to Augusta Susan and Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton. He received his artistic training on the European continent, first from Eduard von Steinle and then from Giovanni Costa. According to Daniel Robbins, the curator at Leighton House, This drawing comes from the time Leighton studied under Eduard von Steinle. He then studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. From 1855 to 1859 he lived in Paris, where he met Ingres, Delacroix, Corot and Millet. In 1860, he moved to London, where he associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1864 he became an associate of the Royal Academy and in 1878 he became its President (1878–96). American art critic Earl Shinn claimed at the time that "Except Leighton, there is scarce any one capable of putting up a correct frescoed figure in the archway of the Kensington Museum." His paintings represented Britain at the great 1900 Paris Exhibition. Leighton was knighted at Windsor in 1878 and was created a baronet, of Holland Park Road eight years later. He was the first painter to be given a peerage. Leighton remained a bachelor and rumours of him having an illegitimate child with one of his models, in addition to the supposition that Leighton may have been a homosexual, continue to be debated. On his death his barony was extinguished after existing for only a day; this is a record in the Peerage. His house in Holland Park, London has been turned into a museum. It contains many of his drawings and paintings, as well as some of his former art collection including a painting dedicated to Leighton by Sir John Everett Millais. The house also features many of Leighton's inspirations, including his collection of Iznik tiles. Its centrepiece is the magnificent Arab Hall. Leighton was an enthusiastic volunteer soldier, enrolling with the first group to join the 38th Middlesex (Artists') Rifle Volunteer Corps (later to be known as the Artists Rifles...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
On the Hunt - Early 20th Century Figurative Drawing with Dogs
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative ink and wash drawing of beagles and a terrier leading the hunter to the quarry by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Displayed in a rustic black and bro...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$375 Sale Price
21% Off
Letter to Dr. Laforet, Modern Ink and Wash Drawing by Jose Luis Cuevas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017)
Title: Letter to Dr. Laforet
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Ink and Wash on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 8.25 in. x 10.5 in. (20.96 cm x 26.67 ...
Category
1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Aquarius
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Aquarius' features the face of a young woman with flowering succulents, thorns and a turbulent sky surrounding her body and is a complex graphite drawing on Kent paper. From Japanes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Untitled - Drawing by Remo Brindisi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a modern artwork realized by Remo Brindisi in 1970s
Black and white china ink drawing.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes f...
Category
1970s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Untitled 1
Located in Paris, IDF
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Original mid 20th Century French drawing by Expressionist Morot-Sir 'Graphica'
By Gerard Morot-Sir
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gerard Morot-Sir (French, 1931 – 2003)
Graphica
Ink on paper
Signed and dated ‘ Morot-Sir, 59’ (lower left)
12.1/2 x 9.5/8in. (31.7 x 24.5cm.)
Newly framed in a limed wood frame in a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sketch of Two Woman & Three Persons Sketch, Figurative, Drawing on Paper
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Badri Narayan - (Set of 2 Works)
Sketch of Two Woman
Drawing on Paper
7.75 x 8.25 inches
This delicate line drawing by Badri Narayan captures an intimate dialogue between two female...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman Folk-1 & 2, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works by Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Woman Folk-1 & 2
Pencil on Paper
5 x 3.4 inches
(Set of 2 Works)
(Framed & Delivered)
In this evocative pencil sketch, Bose captures a candid moment among a group of wom...
Category
1940s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Italian Villa - Drawing By Isidore Pils - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Villa is an artwork realized by Isidore Pils in the Mid 20th Century.
Pencil drawing.
In good conditions.
Hand-Signed.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
“The Dress Rehearsal”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a ballet rehearsal by the American artist Grace Haverty signed lower left with Transparent Watercolor Society of American to the right of sig...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$375 Sale Price
21% Off
Mermet. Mid-Century Design for a Sculpture. Acrylic and Crayon on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid-century design for a sculpture, signed or titled Mermet bottom left corner. Presented in period metal frame.
A very strong image which is almost certainly a design for a sculpture due to the three dimensional nature of the piece accentuated by the lines of the image extending beyond the subject itself showing the different planes to be worked.
This extremely energetic and forceful application of the crayon and the extension of the lines is highly reminiscent of the work of the expressionist Bernard Buffet who lived and worked in Tourtour in the South of France. The angular features of the figure and the dark intense lines are particularly in line with the style of his work. Expressionism was a form of art less interested in the correct anatomical representation of the subject but more in portraying the feelings and emotions that the subject evoked.
The model appears to be for a sculpture quite possibly inspired by African art as the image is reminiscent of African fetish...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Acrylic
Squatting Man-2 & 4, Figurative, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Squatting Man-2 & 4
Pencil on Paper
4.5 x 3.5 inches & 4.5 x 5.4 inches, 1943
(Set of 2 Works)
(Unframed & Delivered)
His poignant sketch captures the quiet vulnerabilit...
Category
1940s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Sorcière - Ink on Paper Unique Signed Drawing Surrealist Woman Painter, c. 1960
By Leonor Fini
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini
La Sorcière, ca. 1960
Ink on paper
21 x 15.5 cm 8 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.
41.5 x 36 cm 16 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (Frame included)
Unique work
Exhibition History: Leonor Fini: Small ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Fighting the dragons - XXI century, Watercolour figurative, Colourful
By Hanna Bakuła
Located in Warsaw, PL
HANNA BAKUŁA (born in 1950) Polish painter, stage designer and writer. Bakuła graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she studied under such polish masters as J. Tarasin, E. Eibisch, A. Kobzdej. In 1981 she moved to New York and settled down on Manhattan. She painted, designed scenography and costumes for the avant-garde theatre "The Kitchen". These designs were praised by "The New York Times" as the best of the Off Broadway projects and won the first prize. She received a scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1989 she came back to Poland. Since 1996 years Bakuła has organized Franz Schubert...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Do butterflies live in winter? (sketch for the painting of the same name)
Located in Zofingen, AG
A quick spontaneous live sketch started on the windowsill of a house on Patriarch's Ponds turned into a sketch for a future large painting of the same name. An additional strip of pa...
Category
2010s Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Permanent Marker
Figure of Breton Woman - Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Breton Woman is a beautiful ink and watercolor original drawing on wire rod and watermarked paper realized at the middle of XVIII century by Jan Peter Verdussen.
This ori...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Portrait - Drawing By Lucien Coutaud - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a modern artwork realized by Lucien Coutaud in the Mid-20th Century.
Ink and watercolor drawing.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
POLITICAL CARTOONS - Vignette by Vauro Senesi, Italy 1970
Located in Napoli, IT
Vauro Senesi, known simply as Vauro (Pistoia, March 24, 1955), is an Italian cartoonist, editor, television personality and actor. He is among the best-known satirical cartoonists in...
Category
1970s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Guitar Player - Drawing by Arturo Pagano - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Guitar Player is a modern artwork realized by Arturo Pagano in the 1980s.
Watercolor.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions
Category
1980s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Life from heart.
Located in Zofingen, AG
“LIFE FROM THE HEART.” 29X39 CM. WATERCOLOR, PAPER.
SERIES "MANIFESTATIONS OF DIVINE."
Paramatma, from Sanskrit meaning “Supersoul,” is the localized aspect of the Supreme, residing ...
Category
2010s Aesthetic Movement Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Woman Resting)
Located in Dallas, TX
Edmund D. Kinzinger was born in 1888, in Pforzhein, Germany. In Munich he studied at the Kirr Schule and the Staatliche Akademie, and pursued graduate studies at the Academie Modern, Paris. Before serving in the German Army, Kinzinger was a master student of Adolph Holzel at the Staatcliche Akademie, Stuttgart; he returned to study under Henrich Waldschmidt after nearly five years of artillery service.
Several of Kinzinger’s fellow students in Germany, such as Johannes Itten, would go on to be associated with the Bauhaus school. Coming into contact with all manner of artistic influences in Europe after World War One, Kinzinger’s work may be viewed as a “synthesis” of modernist styles. The influences of Abstract Expressionist, Cubist, and Futurist styles in Kinzinger’s work at this time are symptomatic of his contact with the likes of Hans Hofmann, Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Archipenko. Philip Van Keuren...
Category
1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Paper, Pastel
Paper figurative drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Paper figurative drawings and watercolors available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add figurative drawings and watercolors created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Luis Miguel Valdes , Renato Garza Cervera, Manuel Santelices, and Robbie Cornelissen. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Modern, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Paper figurative drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 1.25 inches across are also available Prices for figurative drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $60 and tops out at $70,894, while the average work can sell for $916.
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Carol Young Barn
Cavalier Dog Painting
Charles Bronson
Charles Culver Paintings
Clair De Lune Paintings
Constantinople Landscape Painting
David Weeks Chandelier
E Fletcher
Elizabeth Chalmers
Elizabeth Wilcox
Fat Lady Vintage
Frank Heath
Frederick Richard Lee
Henry Rogers
Sandy Hook Painting
Stuyvesant Van Veen
Summer J Hart
Terriers Ratting Painting