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Period: 20th Century
Medium: Paper
Preisung der Unzucht II
By Felix Waske
Located in Wien, 9
Signed, dated and titled lower left.
Felix Waske was born in Vienna in 1942. From 1958 to 1967, he studied at the University of Applied Arts under Prof Eduard Bäumer and at the Acad...
Category
1970s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Pencil
19th Century Watercolour Drawing of Autumnal Trees in Northern Ireland Forest
Located in Preston, GB
19th Century Watercolour Drawing of Autumnal Trees in Northern Ireland Forest, by 19th Century Artist, William Hume
Art measures 11 x 8 inches
Frame measures 17 x 13 inches
Pres...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Man Sitting - Drawing by Suzie Bernardeau - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man Sitting is an artwork made by Suzie Bernardeau in the mid-20th century.
Good condition.
Drawing made with crayons.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Girl Sitting - Drawing by Suzie Bernardeau - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Girl Sitting is an artwork made by Suzie Bernardeau (1875-1970) during the 20th century.
Good condition.
Signed on the back.
Drawing made with crayons.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Woman Sitting - Drawing by Suzie Bernardeau - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Sitting is an artwork made by Suzie Bernardeau in the mid-20th century.
Good condition.
Drawing made with crayons on blue paper.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Naked Woman - Drawing by André Meaux Saint-Marc - Early-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Naked Woman is an artwork, realized in early 20th Century, by the French Artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941).
Drawing pencil on paper. Hand Signed on back.
The artist wants t...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Pat Douthwaite Charcoal drawing 'Totem' Scottish, abstract
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Pat Douthwaite (Scottish, 1939 – 2002)
Seated Man
Charcoal on paper
Indistinctly inscribed, signed and dated ‘Douthwaite 71’ (lower right)
25.1/2 x 18.1...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Self Portrait - Drawing by Pierre Lagénie - 1993
Located in Roma, IT
Self portrait is a beautiful pen drawing on paper, realized in 1993 by the French artist Pierre Lagénie (1938-2020).
Hand-signed and dedicated on the lower right margin.
The work ...
Category
1990s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Paper
The Thief. Original Drawing.Welsh Artist. Magpie.Late 20th Century.Black & White
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Julian Ruddock.
British ( b.1965 ).
The Thief.
Pastel on Paper. Signed.
Image size 29.1 inches x 21.3 inches ( 74cm x 54cm ).
Frame size 38.4 inches x 29.9 inches ( 97.5cm x 76cm )....
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Final Study for Atalanta, Girl with Apple
By Will Barnet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Will Barnet is one of America's best loved and known artists of the Post War era. He is highly distinctive for his figurative and narrative work and in some ways he is the Edgar All...
Category
1970s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Color Pencil, Vellum
“Marshland Artist
Located in Southampton, NY
Original pastel on watercolor paper by the American artist, Lillian Grace Delevoryas. Signed lower left. Titled and dated verso 1990. The artwork depicts an artist at work in a mar...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
Paradise Lost Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of drawings is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
1. Paradise Lost (But His Doom)
Crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 12 ½ inches (image), 22 x 15 inc...
Category
1940s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Man Trimming Tree
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 11 5/8 x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed lower right, Matted, but no...
Category
1930s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper
"Abstract Composition VIII" Watercolor painting 10" x 14"in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition VIII" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in hi...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Drying Off
Located in London, GB
Charcoal, sanguine and white chalk on paper, initialled ‘F.B.’ (lower right), 48cm x 38cm (69cm x 57cm framed).
British painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and designer, the son of a...
Category
1940s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Nude of Woman - Drawing by Emile André Leroy - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an artwok realized by the French Artist Emile André Leroy.
Pastel Drawing on paper. Hand Signed in the left margin.
Good conditions except fo a small tear in the r...
Category
1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This refined ink on paper work was realized by the renowned American artist Alexander Markovich circa 1985, which the scholar Svetlana Rakic called "The most dispersed and energy-cha...
Category
1980s Abstract Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Bailing Hay
42 x 40 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower right
Unframed
Our gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, "Jo Cain: Echoes of an Era," a tribute to the enduring legacy of Joseph Lambert Cain and a celebration of his art that transcends time and remains relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all are available on 1stDibs.
BIO
JOSEPH LAMBERT CAIN (1904–2003)
A painter, muralist, and art educator, Joseph Cain...
Category
1930s American Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled - Mixed Media by Ben Shahn - 1950s
By Ben Shahn
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an drawing realized by Ben Shahn (Kovno 1898-New York 1969)
Pen drawing on paper applied on canvas.
Hand-signed lower right: Ben Shahn.
Some light folds and discoloring...
Category
1950s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Paper
She Gets Her Way (Couple with Vase)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 11 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...
Category
1930s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Demi Mondaine à la Mode, 1911
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
'Demi mondaine à la Mode is a very early drawing by Erté, pencil on card, approximately 6.25 x 4.75 inches and framed in a classic, gold-tone frame. Signed i...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
The Nude - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing, realized in Mid 20th Century, by the French post-impressionist painter and illustrator Louis André Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977).
Black and white penc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Street Life New York - Haunting Faces Windows Expressionism Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century artist Lawrence Kupferman paints a madly eerie New York street scene. An exaggerated upward view of two 19th-century walk-ups is split by a forced perspective of a downwa...
Category
1940s Expressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Pen
Landscape Study - Drawing by André Meaux Saint-Marc - Th Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape Study is a drawing, realized in early 20th Century, by the French Artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941).
Charcoal on paper. Hand Signed on back.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
The Portrait - Painting by Alberto Ziveri - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a painting realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1936.
Oil on cardboard
Hand-signed and dated
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Oil, Paper
Briefcase - Drawing by Suzie Bernardeau - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Briefcase is an artwork made by Suzie Bernardeau on 9 January 1922.
Pencil drawing.
Perfect condition.
Signed and dated.
Category
1920s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Mid Century Modern British 'Listeners' by British German illustrator Kapp, 1959
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Listeners
Inkpen
Signed, inscribed and date ‘Listeners / Kapp 59’ (lower left)
7.5/8 x 10.1/2 in. (19.4 x 26.7 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identic...
Category
1910s American Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Answering the Door Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
Answering the Door Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
Category
1910s American Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Filipino Women and Children in a Pastoral Scene Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Pastoral pencil on paper sketch by a celebrated Filipino artist, Jose V. Blanco. The drawing depicts Filipino women and children sorting out mangoes...
Category
1980s Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mercedes Matter, New York School Abstract Figures
Located in New York, NY
Mercedes Carles Matter (1913 - 2001)
Untitled, circa 1937
Pastel on paper
16 x 13 1/2 inches
Estate stamped on the reverse
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Spanierman Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Pennsylvania circa 2013
Private Collection, New York, 2021
Mercedes Matter was born in New York in 1913. Her father, the American modernist Arthur B. Carles, had studied with Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Ms. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe.
She began painting under her father's supervision at age 6, and studied art at Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y., and then in New York City with Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and Hans Hofmann.
In the late 1930's, she was an original member of the American Abstract Artists organization and worked for the federal Works Progress Administration, assisting Fernand Léger on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company. Léger introduced her to Herbert Matter, the Swiss graphic designer and photographer, whom she married in 1939.
The Matters were active in the emerging New York art scene and also traveled frequently to Europe. Their closest friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning. They were also close to Alberto Giacometti, who was an important artistic role model for Mrs. Matter and a frequent photographic subject for her husband.
Beginning in 1953, Mrs. Matter taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), Pratt Institute and New York University. Based on her teaching experiences she wrote an article for Art News in 1963 titled ''What's Wrong with U.S. Art Schools?'' In it, she lamented the phasing out of the extended studio classes required to initiate ''that painfully slow education of the senses,'' which she considered an artist's life work.
The article prompted a group of Pratt students to ask her to form a school based on her ideas, which led, in 1964, to the founding of the New York Studio School. Originally in a loft on Broadway, the school gained almost immediate support from the Kaplan Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation. It granted no degrees, had only studio classes and emphasized drawing from life. Its teachers, chosen by the students, included the artists Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Charles Cajori, Louis Finkelstein...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil Pastel
Landscape with Man and Goats
Located in London, GB
'Landscape with Man and Goats', gouache on paper, by Raymond Guerrier (circa 1960s). After the artist moved from Paris to the South of France, he started painting landscapes illumina...
Category
1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
The Court - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Court is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th Century.
Pencil on paper.
Good conditions.
Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). He was a journalist and one of the leading Italian caricaturists and cartoonists. "The donkey" weekly magazine published in 1892 of which Galantara signed the illustrations, met the favor of the public. The aim of the satire were episodes of political malfeasance.Austrian Soldiers...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Original German Expressionist Drawing Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Women Dancing
Located in Surfside, FL
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ( Germany 1880-1938 )
Expressionist Female Women Dancing Mixed Media on Paper Drawing or Painting Expressionism
Dimensions: 20" L 16" H in
This bore a sticker from Christies auction house and another collection sticker verso but they have been inadvertently removed. I do have the photo.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 – 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. His work was branded as "Entartete Kunst" or "degenerate" by the Nazis in 1933, and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. His parents were of Prussian descent and his mother was a descendant of the Huguenots, a fact to which Kirchner often referred. As Kirchner's father searched for a job, the family moved frequently and Kirchner attended schools in Frankfurt and Perlen until his father earned the position of Professor of Paper Sciences at the College of technology in Chemnitz, where Kirchner attended secondary school. Although Kirchner's parents encouraged his artistic career they also wanted him to complete his formal education so in 1901, he began studying architecture at the Königliche Technische Hochschule (royal technical university) of Dresden. The institution provided a wide range of studies in addition to architecture, such as freehand drawing, perspective drawing and the historical study of art. While in attendance, he became close friends with Fritz Bleyl, whom Kirchner met during the first term. They discussed art together and also studied nature, having a radical outlook in common. Kirchner continued studies in Munich from 1903 to 1904, returning to Dresden in 1905 to complete his degree.
In 1905, Kirchner, along with Bleyl and two other architecture students, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel, founded the artists group Die Brücke ("The Bridge") later to include Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller. From then on, he committed himself to art. The group aimed to eschew the prevalent traditional academic style and find a new mode of artistic expression, which would form a bridge (hence the name) between the past and the present. They responded both to past artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald and Lucas Cranach the Elder, as well as contemporary international avant-garde movements. As part of the affirmation of their national heritage, they revived older media, particularly woodcut or woodblock prints.
Kirchner's studio became a venue which overthrew social conventions to allow casual love-making and frequent nudity. Group life-drawing sessions took place using nude models from the social circle, rather than professionals, and choosing quarter-hour poses to encourage spontaneity. In 1911, he moved to Berlin, where he founded a private art school, MIUM-Institut, in collaboration with Max Pechstein with the aim of promulgating "Moderner Unterricht im Malen" (modern teaching of painting). This was not a success and closed the following year, when he also began a relationship with Erna Schilling that lasted the rest of his life. In 1917, at the suggestion of Eberhard Grisebach [de], Helene Spengler invited Kirchner to Davos where he viewed an exhibition of Ferdinand Hodler paintings. "When I was leaving, I thought of Vincent Van Gogh's fate and thought that it would be his as well, sooner or later. Only later will people understand and see how much he has contributed to painting".
In 1921 Kirchner visited Zurich at the beginning of May and met the dancer, Nina Hard, whom he invited back to Frauenkirch (despite Erna's objections). Nina Hard would become an important model for Kirchner and would be featured in many of his works. Kirchner began creating designs for carpets which were then woven by Lise Gujer.
In 1925, Kirchner became close friends with fellow artist, Albert Müller...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Three Fish Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Three Fish Watercolor on Paper
Lively watercolor of three fish by unknown Japanese artist "Eichito" (20th Century). The fish are swimming from left to...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Zoltan" - 1990 Male Nude Study
Located in Soquel, CA
"Zoltan" - 1990 Male Nude Study
Watercolor painting depicting a nude male figure. The brunette male figure is posing, seated on a purple cloth, his left hand gripping a table net to him, while he leans on his right elbow, his face looking straight ahead. The background is made up of hues of green.
Signed "AG" lower left.
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
"Arnold Grossman, 'Zoltan' November 1990"
Presented in a white mat.
Image with mat: 19"H x 22"W
Image: 10.5"H x 14.5"W
Sheet: 12"H x 16"W
Arnold A...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Arch Architecture - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Arch Architecture is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1928.
Pencil on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Gabriele Galantara - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Animals' Prisoner is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th Century.
The artwork is a China ink on paper.
Including a Passepartout.
Good conditions ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Profiles - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Profiles is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Pencil on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions with some foxing.
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Wedding Procession - Raised Line Woodcut Hand Painted 1924 Betha Lum
By Bertha Boynton Lum
Located in Soquel, CA
Wedding Procession is a colored raised line woodcut, done in 1924 by Bertha Boynton Lum (American, 1869 – 1954) . The image measures 13-7/8 x 10-1/8". Raised line impression and painted by the artist, while living in China.
Image 13.25"H x 8.75"W
Sheet 14.75"H x 10.75" (approx)
Signed Lower center in pencil "Bertha Lum"
New acid free mat included.
Bertha Lum was fascinated by the legends and mythology of the Orient and wrote extensively about them. These legends provided the subject matter for many of her works in woodcut.
Bertha Boynton Lum was an American artist known for helping popularize the Japanese and Chinese woodblock print outside of Asia.
In May 1869, Lum was born as Bertha Boynton Bull in Tipton, Iowa. Lum's father was Joseph W. Bull (1841–1923), a lawyer and her mother was Harriet Ann Boynton (1842–1925), a school teacher. Both of Lum's parents were amateur artists. Lum had a sister and two brothers, Clara, Carlton, and Emerson.
Education and career:
In 1890 she lived in Duluth and listed her occupation as artist. She enrolled in the design department of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1895. A few years later she studied stained glass with Anne Weston and attended the Frank Holme School of Illustration.
From November 1901 to March 1902, she studied figure drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and was influenced by the Japanese techniques of Arthur Wesley Dow in his book Composition, which was published in 1899.
Lum married Burt F. Lum, a corporate lawyer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1903. They spent their seven-week honeymoon in Japan, where she searched for a print maker who could teach her the traditional ukiyo-e method. Toward the end of her stay in Japan, she found a shop that reproduced old prints. The shop sold her some woodcutting tools...
Category
1920s Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rice Paper, Gouache
Untitled, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, 1996 by Celso Castro
Pencil on archival paper
Image size: 39 H in. x 48 in. W
Sheet size: 43 H in. x 59 in. W
Unframed
____________
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s w...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Archival Paper
Painter - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Painter is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Modern British 'Hot Soup' by British German illustrator Kapp, 1938
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eduard Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Hot soup
Pen on paper
Inscribed and dated ‘Hot Soup / 15-12-38’ (upper right) and signed ‘kapp’ (lower right)
7.1/2 x 12.3/8 in. (19 x 31.5 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Horses - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1926.
Ink, pencil and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions.
Category
1920s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
'Flower Seller in Clichy', Parisian Street vendor, French Post Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A bright and animated Parisian street view with a gendarme poised languidly to survey the street outside the Hotel de Clichy beside a flower vendor tending her colorful stall . A cha...
Category
1960s Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
Church Bell - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Church Bell is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
Category
1960s Renaissance Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a drawing, realized in Mid 20th Century, by the French post-impressionist painter and illustrator Louis André Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977).
Black and white penc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Studious Girl Reading a Book - Women's Education - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
The work represents a carefully rendered and meticulously observed environmental portrait of a young girl absorbed in study in front of a book case. It celebrates the intelligence o...
Category
1910s Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
The Old Man's Face - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Man's face is a drawing, realized in Mid 20th Century, by the French post-impressionist painter and illustrator Louis André Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977).
Black and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Green Tree - Painting by Alberto Ziveri - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Green Tree is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1935.
Tempera on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Paper
Large Watercolour Painting Depicting Turkish Scholars by A. Rosati
Located in London, GB
Large watercolour painting depicting Turkish scholars by A. Rosati
Italian, Early 20th Century
Panel: Height 36cm, width 52cm
Frame: Height 72cm, width 89cm, depth 4.5cm
This sensational watercolour painting depicts two Turkish scholars, who recline in a typical Orientalist interior as they study and discuss the Quran. The figures are beautifully rendered in a sketched, painterly style that harks back to Impressionism, dressed in bright Orientalist robes with ornate detailing. The two men are imbued with contrasting characters, the left-hand figure engaged and leaning forward in discussion, whilst the right reclines in thought.
Their setting is marked with Orientalist signifiers, such as the incense lamp and palm plant in the top right-hand corner. Particularly fine detail has been given to the Persian-style rug, which catches the viewer’s eye with its vibrant hues and repeating geometric motif border. Further geometric designs can be seen on the back wall, which utilises circular and zig-zag mosaic patterning. These motifs are replicated in the beautiful frame. A later addition, the frame complements not only the colour palette of the painting with a bright red base, but also the intricate motifs of the painting with gilt foliate decoration.
The painting is by the Italian artist Alberto Rosati...
Category
Early 20th Century Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
The Little Pig - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Little Pig is an original drawing, realized in Mid 20th Century, by the French post-impressionist painter and illustrator Louis André Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977).
Blac...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Cityscape - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Cityscape is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
The Woman's Face - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman's face is a drawing, realized in Mid 20th Century, by the French post-impressionist painter and illustrator Louis André Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977).
Black and wh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
The Woman - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman is an original drawing, realized in Mid 20th Century, by the French post-impressionist painter and illustrator Louis André Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977).
Black and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Le Pere Jean - Drawing by André Meaux Saint-Marc - Th Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Le Pere Jean is a drawing, realized in early 20th Century, by the French Artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941).
Pencil colored on paper. Hand Signed on back.
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
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