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Style: Modern
Medium: Paper
Timeless Body Art
Located in Boxholm, SE
Timeless Body Art – Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. ...
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Early 2000s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
In Arms Angel
Located in Boxholm, SE
Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. This is how she writ...
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1990s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Frau bei Tisch sitzend
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
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20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Be Kind to People
Located in New York, NY
2022, Oil stick on paper
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2010s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
Leda and the Swan
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, 1897-1986
Reuben Nakian, born August 10, 1897 in College Point, New York enjoyed a long and distinguished career, maintaining his innovative spirit and creativity over mor...
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1980s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Untitled-042 pastel on paper by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hand-signed and dated "H Burkhardt '63" lower right.
Provenance: The artist to his daughter Elsa. By descent to her son.
Chronology of the artist:
1904 Hans Burkhardt was born in ...
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1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Study for Sculpture of Nude Woman Balancing Baby
By Chaim Gross
Located in New York, NY
Study for Sculpture of Nude Woman Balancing Baby, 1949, by Chaim Gross (1902-1991)
Ink on paper
10 ½ x 7 ½ inches unframed (26.67 x 19.05 cm)
1...
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1940s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
"Loser's Rack" - Original Charcoal and Graphite Drawing on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Loser's Rack" - Original Charcoal and Graphite Drawing on Paper
This drawing by California artist, Angela Stone (American, b. 1983), provides brilliant 1-point perspective in a val...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Large Drawing of Boy by French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris Art
By Jean Jansem
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013
Young Boy (sad young man)
Hand signed lower left corner
Provenance: Marble Arch Gallery NYC
Measurements Image size: 25 by 18 inches, ove...
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1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
"Family at the Beach"
27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Mixed media on paper, c. ...
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1940s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Paper
The Prison - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Prison is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1960 ca.
Hand Signed on the top left.
Good conditions with some short-cutting and folding on the margins.
Mino Ma...
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1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pastel, Paper
Letters to Sardinia - Drawing by Filiberto Scarpelli - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Letters to Sardinia is a modern artwork realized by Italian artist Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933).Four Separate artworks in one frame. Original drawings realized i...
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1920s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Paper
Cocaine - Drawing - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Cocaine is a satiric drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the mid-20th century.
Watercolor and China ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is created...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Geocentric Universe - Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Geocentric Universe is a China ink drawing realized by Anonymous in the late 19th century
Good conditions.
Good condition with aged margins
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Late 19th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Men at the Table - Drawing by Fiorenzo Tomea - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Men at the Table is a drawing realized by Fiorenzo Tomea in the mid-20th century.
Pencil on paper glued on a hard cardboard as support.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The art...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Cardboard, Pencil
Body of Man - Drawing - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Body of Man is a drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the mid-20th century.
Charcoal on paper. With another drawing of hands in the rear.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Colorful Cottage - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Colorful Cottage is a drawing realized by an anonymous in the mid-20th century.
Pastel on paper.
Fair condition with a cutting on the left.
The artwork is created through deft st...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection o...
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1930s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Handwritten, signed letter
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
Materials
Ink, Paper
Rough Conversation - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Rough Conversation is a drawing Artwork realized by (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed and dedicated to Corrado Sofia.
Good conditions with slight foxing and folding.
Mino Mac...
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1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Untitled, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Signed in the lower right corner. Great condition.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image size: 12 in H x 9 in W
Unframed
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Enriq...
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1980s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
Rhythmic Gymnast. Modern British Pastel.Competition.Judge.Coach.Reds. Composure.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Robert King.
English ( b.1936 ).
Gymnast. Dancer.
Pastel on paper. Signed.
Image size 7.5 inches x 5.7 inches ( 19cm x 14.5cm ).
Frame size 14 inches x 11.6 inches ( 35.5cm x 29.5cm...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled II, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled II, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Signed in the lower right corner. Great condition.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image size: 12 in H x 9 in W
Unframed
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En...
Category
1980s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Composition - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1960 ca.
Drawing pen on yellowed paper. Hand Signed on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Si...
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1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Paper
The Climbers - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca
Located in Roma, IT
The Climbers is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1940 ca.
Drawing pen on yellowed paper. Hand Signed on the lower margin.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, ...
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1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Standing Female Nude watercolor by Philadelphia Artist Adolphe Borie
Located in Philadelphia, PA
ADOLPHE BORIE
(American, 1877-1934)
Standing Female Nude
Wash & charcoal on gray laid paper, 12 x 9 inches
Framed: 16 x 13 inches
Estate stamp lower right
Born in Philadelphia, Adol...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Watercolor
Mid-Century, Black & White Portrait of a Young Man by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1959, black & white, ink on paper portrait of a young man by artist Harold Haydon.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicag...
Category
1950s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Para Celso, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Para Celso, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Image size: 23 in H x 18 in W
Signed in the lower right corner. Great condition with flaws.
Provenance: Private collection.
Unfram...
Category
1980s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
Study for Fallen Angel III
By Daniel Barkley
Located in London, GB
Watercolour, signed and dated (lower right), 76cm x 56cm, (93cm x 69cm framed).
Daniel Barkley is known for his nude figurative work alluding to myths, legends and art history, whi...
Category
2010s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Untitled III, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled III, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Signed in the top right corner. Great condition.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image size: 12 in H x 9 in W
Unframed
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Enr...
Category
1980s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Two in One
Located in Boxholm, SE
Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. This is how she writ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
A ca 1954 Watercolor & Ink Image of a Notre Dame Football Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 watercolor and ink on paper image of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of...
Category
1950s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Map of Palestine - Original Etching - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Map of Palestine" is an original etching realized by an Anonymous Author in 19th Century.
Good condition except for some traces of time and folding....
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19th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Etching
Bacchus - Original Pen and Watercolor on Paper by Mino Maccari -Mid-20th century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Bacchus is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original drawing in pen and watercolor on paper, study for a small labe...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Watercolor, Paper
Rose
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
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1950s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite, Paper
Mid Century Self Portrait of the Original Drawing on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of the Artist by the Artist Original Charcoal Drawing on Paper 1960
Excellent detailed original drawing of the artist by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). A realistic dep...
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1960s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Watercolor & Ink on Paper Image of a Notre Dame Football Game by Francis Cahpin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954, watercolor and ink on paper image of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “D...
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1950s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
A ca. 1954, drawing of a Notre Dame Football Game by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a Notre Dame football game by artist Francis Chapin.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “D...
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1950s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Untitled-053 Pastel Figure by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt regularly used live models for his figural pastels, which he maintained an interest in throughout his long career.
Untitled (1963)
Pastel on paper
24" x 19"
Signed an...
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1960s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Watercolor on Paper Study of a Notre Dame Football Game by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1954 watercolor of a football scrimmage at Notre Dame, by artist Francis Chapin. This was a study for a painting he created for the University in 1954. The original painting ...
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1950s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Fishermen and Sailboat)
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming Modernist watercolor by notable artist Flora Schofield, depicting fishermen and a sail boat. Archivally matted to 16" x 20".
A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France.
In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”.
Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...
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1920s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Guardian, Cowboy and Horseman of the Camargue, South of France. Mid-Century.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Rattenbury Skeaping.
English ( b.1901 - d.1980 ).
Guardian, Cowboy and Horseman of the Camargue,1970.
Pastel on Paper. Signed and dated.
Paper size 15.2 inches x 20.9 inches (...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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...
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1970s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...
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1930s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Die Moralische Eifersucht - Drawing by Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Die moralische Eifersucht is a contemporary artwork realized by Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern in 1964.
Pencil and colored chalks on Schoellershammer cardboard.
Signed "F. S. SONN...
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1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk, Paper
Where the Fuck is Jimini? - Drawing by Ryan Mendoza - 2012
Located in Roma, IT
Where the fuck is Jimini? is a contemporary artwork realized by Mircea Suciu in 2012.
Charcoal on drawing paper.
Signed on the back – Origin Aeroplastics Brussels
Mircea Suciu Bo...
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2010s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Ryan - Drawing by Ryan Mendoza - 2000
Located in Roma, IT
Ryan is a contemporary artwork realized by Ryan Mendoza in 2000.
Pencil and charcoal on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Provenance: Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
Born in 1971 in New York, Mendoza's personal story is subsequently intertwined with the two extremes of Europe, Naples and Berlin, the two cities in which he has lived and worked up to now. In his works he represents complex theatricality, models anatomies, doses colours, calibrates lights, draws on a rich archive of memories, confusing ancient pictorial wisdom and contemporary risks. The artist's attention is particularly focused on portraits in which he carries out distortions and alterations: he exhibits perspective disproportions, reveals anatomical dissonances, manifests dystonias between the characters in the foreground and the backgrounds. His characters appear "possessed", it is no coincidence that the title of the 2010 solo show at the Muse d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in Naples is "The possessed...
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Early 2000s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Marital Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Savinio - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Marital portrait is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio in 1948.
Pencil on paper.
Hand signed by the artist and dedicated to Raffaele Carrieri.
Certificate of authenticity by Ruggero Savinio...
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1940s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
Located in Surfside, FL
This has young ISraeli pioneers dancing with the flag as typical of works of the late British mandate Palestine era early state of Israel.
Genre: Modern
Subject: Figurative (stained glass style)
Medium: Mixed media gouache on paper
Hand signed lower left
Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 – 1974)
Alexander Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the Chicago Civic Opera in 1930.
During the Great Depression, notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright urged Katz to become a muralist. In 1933, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. In 1936, he painted the mural History of the Immigrant for the Madison, Ill., post office. Katz’s works were included in various exhibitions and now are part of several museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues in the United States.
Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who expressed Jewish and Biblical themes were inspired by the artist Abel Pann (1883-1963). Pann, who is regarded as the leading painter of the Land of Israel, exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920.
Early in his career, Katz began to explore the artistic possibilities inherent in the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. He developed aesthetic and philosophical interpretations of each letter and became the leading innovator and pioneer in the field of Hebraic art.
Katz applies this concept in the woodcut Moses and the Burning Bush. Hebrew letters appears in Moses’ head, his cane and inside the flame. The initial of Moses’ name crowns his head. The letter in the flame is the first letter of the name of God. A combination of images and Hebrew letters appeared commonly in illustrations of the scene Moses and the Burning Bush in the Haggadah, the book of Passover.
The symbolism of the burning bush corresponds to the motifs of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists Todros Geller, Mitchell Siporin...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Fond Memories. Original Gordon King Watercolor. Modern British. Lady. Flowers.
By Gordon King
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Gordon King.
English ( b.1939 ).
Fond Memories.
Watercolor. Signed.
Image size 13.6 inches x 21 inches ( 34.5cm x 53.5cm ).
Frame size 22.4 inches x 29.9 inches ( 57cm x 76cm ).
Av...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Beach Series, Ink on Paper by Modern Artist Prokash Karmakar "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series
14.5 x 11 inches (unframed size)
Ink on Paper
2006
( Framed and Delivered )
Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was sole...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
San Tubisco (Season's Greetings) Holiday Drawing Artwork Poseidon Trident Bridge
Located in Surfside, FL
Gottfried Salzmann , born on 26 March 1943 In Saalfelden near Salzburg in Austria is an Austrian painter. He lives and works in France (between Paris and Vence) since 1965.
He studi...
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1970s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
1964 Original Pastel Watercolor Drawing Construction Workers SF Red Green Black
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Construction Workers and Red Truck
6-16-64
Pastel and Watercolor
41 1/2" x 36" unframed
Signed and dated in pastel lower right
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 192...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pastel
Spielende Kinder vor Schönbrunn
Located in Wien, 9
Sergius Pauser (1896 - 1970) is recognized as a significant figure in the artistic movement known as "New Objectivity" and was a longstanding member of the Vienna Secession. Througho...
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20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, 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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
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
“Montmartre”
By Fernand Guignier
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed original watercolor by French artist Fernand Guignier of a street scene in Montmartre, Paris. Signed lower right and dated 1949. Titled lower left, “Montmartre”. Fernand Guignier was a student of the sculptors Emil Derré and Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris . Between 1926 and 1960 he took part in the Salon des Artistes Français in the Palais de Tokyo. The watercolor is housed in its original off white wood frame. Under glass. Condition is very good. Overall framed measurements are 18.25 by 16.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Fernand Guignier
Born: 1902
Died: 1972
Known for: Paris street scene watercolor...
Category
1940s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival 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
Charcoal, Chalk, Paper
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.