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Medium: Watercolor
A Fabulous 1945 Mid-Century Female Nude Studio Figure Study By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous Mid-Century Female Nude Studio Figure Study By Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a Seated Nude, the drawing is ink and watercolor on paper an...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era.This painting that depicts figures including a crowned pig, and a princess in a bed. Artist signature above bed. Housed in chrome mid century frame.
Framed: 19.5 X 25.5 image is 14.75 X 21.25.
Emma Heinzelmann ( Nyírbátor , March 14 , 1930 - ) Munkácsy Prize-winning Hungarian graphic designer and illustrator.
Heinzelmann is a Hungarian children's book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s. She has a very unique drawing style that resembles children’s book illustrations. Working in psychedelic pop colors of the era. She Initially she studied to be a costume designer but she soon turned to graphic design. She graduated in 1950 from the clothing design department at the Junior High School in Török Pál Street which operated under the name Szépmíves Lyceum from 1946 to 1950. His master was György Farkas, a ceramicist, painter and sculptor. She creates her compositions using mainly watercolor and gouache paint. She often worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes. Her posters show the same playful Hungarian Folk Art style. She has produced artwork in almost all areas of applied graphics. posters, commemorative cards, designed album covers, postcards, advertising graphics, slide films, animation and cartoons. Her drawings were published in Dörmögő Dömötör and Kisdobos among others as well as in children's magazines. An entire generation of children grew up with her book illustrations, reading the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff or Hans Christian Andersen. Her story books and drawings are known well beyond our borders. She illustrated nearly 80 storybooks. She is a contemporary of Maurice Sendak and William Steig. Her work is of the same genre as the iconic Polish Cyrk poster artists.
In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic. Her drawings are made in a variety of ways, from pencil drawings to watercolor painting to collage techniques, from decorative spot effects to lace-like line drawings. She is no stranger to a kind of Art Nouveau influence, but it is always individual. It was never beautiful, but over the years its color scheme changed, thus confirming the lines of József Somogyi quoted earlier. She had several individual exhibitions, and for more than 10 years as a member of the Papp-Gábor group, her works could be seen in Dorottya Street.
In 2009 , the book of art historian András Székely was published by Holnap Könyvkiadó under the title Emma Heinzelmann: fairy tales in the drawing.
Awards and recognitions
Lot Prize (International Poster Biennale, Warsaw) (1972)
Ministry of Culture Award (1977, 1979)
Brno Graphic Biennale (Bronze Award) (1980)
Worker's Award (1984)
Children's Book of the Year Award (1984)
IBBY Andersen Diploma (1988)
Hamburg Lifetime Achievement Award (1990)
Albert Star Award (1992)
Noémi Ferenczy Award (2005)
Munkácsy Award (1984)
Solo Exhibitions:
Thought Bookstore, Budapest (1965)
Cultural Center, Nyíregyháza (1974)
Little Gallery, Komárom (1982)
Art Gallery, Budapest. (1990)
Vác (2010)
Selected group exhibitions:
International Children's Book Fair and Exhibition, Bologna (1971-1975)
International Graphic Biennale, Brno (1966-1985)
BIB (Children's book illustration biennial), Bratislava (1970-1985)
XXXVI. Venice Biennale, Venice (1972)
ARC. International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (1972)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1972-1974)
Weekdays, graphic exhibition, (1975)
Calligraphy and typography, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest (1977)
"Falrahányt pea", graphic exhibition, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest.(1978)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1978)
National Poster Exhibitions, Art Gallery, Budapest (1978)(1980)
International Poster Exhibition (IR) (1979)
Slide films:
Fairy tales with Emma Heinzelmann's drawings:
Under the Shore (1981)
Goose Party (1981)
Take a Little Trumpet (1982)
The Bremen Town...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Study for Scenography - Watercolor by Erminio Loy - 1920s
By Erminio Loy
Located in Roma, IT
Study for Scenography is a painting in watercolor realized in the 1920s by Erminio Loy.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Good conditions.
The artwork represented through harmonious...
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1920s Pop Art Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surreal semi-Nude Man in the Middle of the Highway
By Steven Stroud
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered surreal image of a seemingly disoriented shirtless and shoeless man standing in the middle of a busy highway and gazing outward. The image is characterized by fine lines with some cross-hatching over a wash mono-chromatic background. Published: The Stories of John Cheever...
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1980s Surrealist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Lady Driving A 2-Horse Tandem Hitch c1929 Gouache by H. W. Standing (1894- 1931)
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 12 3/4"H x 21 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 18 3/4"H x 27 3/4"W
Henry William Standing (British,1894 -1931)
Category
Early 20th Century Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
German Lesson (two separate unique watercolor gouaches, each hand signed) Framed
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Allen
German Lesson, 1981
Two separate mixed media works framed together: watercolor, gouache, ink, wash, laid paper collage (each signed by hand)
Signed twice: each of the s...
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1980s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Nude, 1959, Ink and Watercolor, Figure, Mid-Century, American
By Knox Martin
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1923, Knox Martin moved with his family to New York City in 1927. He attended The Art Students League of New York from 1946 to 1950 under the GI Bil...
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20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
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1860s Romantic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
Costume for Aida - Tempera and Watercolor - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for Aida is an original painting in tempera and watercolor on brownish paper realized in 1920 ca. by an Anonymous Italian artist of the 20th Century.
In very good condition....
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1920s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
"Flamenco Avec Rosario" (Florence Perez Padilla)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Flamenco Avec Rosario" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Antonio Ruiz Soler and Florence Perez Padilla A.K.A Rosario, c.1945...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Serge Golovine, Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo, 1949
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Serge Golovine, Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo" 1949 is a watercolor and crayon on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 It is signed at the lower right corner, titled at the upper right corner by the artist, and dedicated by Serge Golovine to the artist, at the lower left corner. The artwork size is 11.75 x 9 inches, framed is 21 x 18 inches. it is beautifully custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with matting and silver color spacer. it is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist.
Jean Target was born in France in 1910. From a very young age early on, he was impassioned by the two forms of art that would remain the focal point of his career for all his life: visual arts and performing arts. In the 30s and 40s, as a young man, Jean Target frequented the Parisian theaters and cabarets, just like his role model, the famous impressionist painter Toulouse Lautrec, did at the end of the 19th century. Jean became friends with many performers and captured many formal as well as candid depictions. He gained exclusive access and used this privilege to create art with unparalleled perspective as an insider to the seedy, dark, yet glamorous underworld of Parisian cabaret. He drew the dancers on-site, capturing the dancer’s movements in his immediately recognizable signature style. In the 40s and 50s, he continued his artistic career, gaining recognition among collectors in France and all over Europe. His work depicting the Parisian performing art scene captures the feeling and history of the the theater and golden age of cabaret in Paris. Jean Target continued to draw, paint and sculpt until his death in 1997. The work of Jean Target is held in collections and museums worldwide including the world renowned Victoria And Albert Museum in London.
About the subject.
Serge Golovine, a star of the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas in the 1950's who was considered one of the most brilliant dancers of his generation. As popular as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov in later years, Mr. Golovine was known for the airborne quality, lightness and virtuosity of his dancing. His best-known roles were the Blue Bird in ''The Sleeping Beauty,'' where the articulation and elegance of his footwork were seen to their best advantage, and the title role of ''Le Spectre de la Rose.'' He was also greatly praised for his poignant portrayal of Petrouchka, which he danced at the Paris Opera in the 1970's. Mr. Golovine was a leading teacher at the ballet school at the Paris Opera from 1981 to 1997. He stood out for the gentleness and quiet wit of his teaching in master classes last summer at the New York University School of Education, where he was a guest professor with his wife, Claude Bessy, the director of the Paris Opera Ballet School. Mr. Golovine, born in Monte Carlo, was one of three siblings who became noted dancers. (His sister, Solange, died several years ago. George Goviloff, a brother, is now the director of the Theatre de la Danse in Avignon.) He began his training in Nice with Julie Sedova, a former Maryinsky dancer, followed by studies with Gustave Ricaux at the Paris Opera. Mr. Golovine made his professional debut at 17 with the Nouveaux Ballets de Monte Carlo, a refuge for dancers reluctant to perform in Paris during the German occupation. He joined the Paris Opera Ballet in 1947 but left in 1950 to join the de Cuevas company. During his years with the troupe, which he left in 1962, Mr. Golovine created the role of Iphias in John Taras's ''Piege de Lumiere.'' His repertory also included the ''Black Swan'' pas de deux from ''Swan Lake,'' ''Les Sylphides'' and the lead male roles in ''Giselle'' and the Bournonville production of ''La Sylphide.'' He effectively retired from the stage in 1964, when he joined the Geneva Ballet as its resident choreographer and ballet master through 1968. Mr. Golovine's best-known ballets were ''Feu Rouge, Feu Vert'' and ''La Mort de Narcisse.'' He was considered an expert in the staging of ballets from the 20th-century Russian repertory. He also taught for Maurice Bejart...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Outbreak - Original China Ink and Watercolor signed "Piulis" - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Outbreak is an original artwork realized by an unknown artist signed "Piulis".
Original China ink and watercolor drawing on ivory cardboard...
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1950s Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, 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 Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Beloved Phone - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1975
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1975 ca.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
Figure - Original Watercolor and Pencil by Raymond Cazanove - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in watercolor and pencil on ivory paper, realized by Raymond Cazanove in 1922.
Hand-signed on the lower margin in ...
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1920s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Nude - Watercolor by Leo Guida - 1963
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1963 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin.
...
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1960s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Graphite and gouache on handmade paper: 'The Remains: 9'
Located in New York, NY
The Remains, A series of 10 works
An insect approaches a crumpled paper doily to eat what remains of a party. This series explores the moment when the trimmings become debris and presumptions of human control are upended. The text-like marks on white vertical rectangles are deliberate, but indecipherable. They appear as if a poem, written in an ancient language, that honors this eternal cycle of destruction and regeneration.
Winifred McNeill...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
The Scream - Original Watercolor and Tempera by Helen Vogt - Mid-20th Century
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
The Scream is an original drawing realized by Helen Vogt.
Mixed colored watercolor and tempera.
The state of preservation is very good.
The artwork represents a woman with an aut...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
No Access! - Charcoal and Watercolor by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
No Access! is an original charcoal and watercolor drawing on laid and ivory-colored paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Sie...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
An English scene of a Donkey and Rabbits in a field, with wild flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
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1990s Romantic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Conversation - Original China Ink and Watercolor - MId-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-XX Century by an unknown artist..
Original Black China Ink and watercolor on paper. The signature of the artist appea...
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Mid-20th Century Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Cup - Original China Ink and Watercolor - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Cup" is an original China ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by unknown French Artist of XIX Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Sheet dimension: 2...
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Late 19th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Landscape - Original Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a splendid colorful drawing in watercolor and pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century in 1950 ca.
Titled on the lower right and signed, illeg...
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Mid-20th Century Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Figure - Original Watercolor on Paper by R. Cazanove - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Cazanove in 1922.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
In good conditions, with aged margins.
Sheet dimension: 38 x 26...
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1920s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Christmas - Original Charcoal and Watercolor on Cardboard by M. Maccari - 1970's
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Christmas greeting card is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1970's.
Colored watercolor and charcoal drawing on cardboard.
Initials of the artist on the lower mar...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
Woman - Original Drawing in Watercolor and China Ink - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in watercolor and China ink, realized in 1996 by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, Hand-signed and dated on the lower right, the firm is not readabl...
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1990s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Carnegie International
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and watercolor on paper
Signed in black ink, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Jack Balas...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Acrylic
“Bringing Home the Game”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a hunter bring home the fresh game by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed top right. ...
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1940s Academic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
“British Pub 2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior crowded pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed top left and dated ...
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1930s Academic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
French Gouache Portrait Study of Navajo Hopi and Apache Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Portrait Study of Navajo Hopi and Apache Figures
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Siz...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Cross Roads, Kingston [Jamacia].
Located in New York, NY
Reynolds Beal painted this watercolor entitled “CROSS ROADS, KINGSTON.” in the spring of 1922. The paper size is 4 7/8 x 7 1/8" (12.4 x 18 cm). It is signed in pencil lower right a...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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THE CHOSEN PATH, English School 19th Century Watercolour
Located in London, GB
JOHN EDWARD GOODALL
1853 - 1920
THE CHOSEN PATH
Pencil, watercolour and gouache, signed lower right
Image size: 6 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches (16 x 21 cm)
Hand made gilt frame
John Edward Goodall was the son of Alfred Goodall and Mary Palmer. Alfred was a brother to Edward A. and Frederick Goodall, both accomplished artists. He was most prolific during the period between 1877 and 1911. In the 1891 census he is shown as being married to Grace, manager of the Sommerville Club, London but by 1901 he is to be found with a woman named Annie. John associated with a bohemian art circle and tended to have a corresponding lifestyle.
The work produced by Goodall is well executed and often in watercolour. He trained at art school in London and travelled extensively. He was not the prolific artist like his uncles and a lot about his life is still...
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19th Century Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing - Women On The Beach
Located in Surfside, FL
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
“The Hunter”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a solitary hunter in the field by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom right. ...
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1940s Academic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Féminine Mystique Ink on Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Feminine Mistique, ink on archival paper.
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor and ink. He has honed...
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2010s Pop Art Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled (Musician with clarinet)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Musician with clarinet)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1844
Created on J Whatman Turkey Mill Watermarked paper
Signed lower left: Gavarni (see photo)
Condition: very fresh colors
...
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1840s Romantic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
John Francis Branegan (1843-1909) - Framed Watercolour, Evening on the Medway
Located in Corsham, GB
John Francis Branegan (1843-1909) - original watercolour. Evening on the Medway. Signed and inscribed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt-effect frame with a wash-line mount. Lab...
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Late 19th Century Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Françoise Gilot, “On the Wheel of Fortunes” A Woman's Balancing Act
Located in San Francisco, CA
A superb expression of a triumphant free spirit, and the balancing act required to maintain it, this watercolor was created by a woman who embodied female independence—especially rem...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled - XXI Century, Gouache Painting, Figurative, Portrait
Located in Warsaw, PL
ALEKSANDER GRZYBEK He was born in Białystok. He studied artistic education in the studio of painting of prof. Marian Bogusz and Andrzej Kołodziejek. He graduated in 1979. His works c...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Mid Century Portrait of a Young Mexican Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a young Mexican girl by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Signed "Joe Yeager" in the lower right corner. This piece is on hea...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Old Factory
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: The Old Factory
Year: c.1980
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Size image: 16 x 21 in...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Rajput prince with a sword, dagger, lotus – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto, 12 1/2 x 9 inches (318 x 230 mm). Toning, handling c...
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19th Century Rajput Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
India Naga Tribe Watercolour 19th Century Company School Painting Indian
Located in Norfolk, GB
Untitled - Rongmei Naga Tribe India
Watercolour on Paper
c 1860
Mounted Unframed: 38 x 45 cm
Image size: 24.5 x 31 cm
Provenance: Private UK Collection
This is a fabulous and rare 19th century watercolour from India in a style that is often referred to as Company School Painting...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Mother and Child', Bolivian-American Modernist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Norha Beltran (Bolivian-American, 20th century). Accompanied by old label from Hourian Gallery, San Francisco and with comprehensive artist bi...
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1970s Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon, Watercolor
Opera dei Pupi
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on ivory colored paper stuck onwhite cardboard sheet, 1820 c.a. Representing people attending the typical Sicilian"Operadei Pupi". Excellent conditionsexcept a little sta...
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1820s Old Masters Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Classical Modern', Stylized Figural by Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Dawn O'Malley (American, 20th century), circa 1975 and with certification of authenticity stamped verso.
A bright and harmonious figural painting in the Mycenaean style ...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Casein
"Estudiante" - Portrait of a Mexican Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Mexican girl in church by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joe Yeager" in th...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“The Hunters”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of two hunters in the field by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom right. Circa ...
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1940s Academic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Watercolor Painting of the Monseigneur News Theatre, by Reginald Marsh, 1925
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh, 1898 – 1954
Monseigneur News Theatre, 1925
Signed and dated at lower right: 'Reginald Marsh 1925'
Watercolor on card
8 x 11 inches
Born in Paris to parents who were American artists, Reginald Marsh became an adept illustrator at an early age. His family returned to the United States in 1900. Upon graduating from Yale University, Marsh moved to New York and in 1922 took a job as an illustrator at the New York Daily News. For the paper he provided cartoons of vaudeville and burlesque shows. In 1925 Marsh went to work for a new magazine -- The New Yorker -- as one of its original cartoonists. That same year he married Betty Burroughs, daughter of the paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later that year they traveled to Europe where Marsh discovered the work of the old masters at the Louvre in Paris and British museums. With a sketchbook always on hand, he wandered the streets of Europe and began depicting bums or what he called figures of failure. Upon the couple’s return, Marsh, now with a serious interest in pursuing art, enrolled at the Art Students League where he studied under George Luks, John Sloan, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. This work, Monseigneur News Theatre, is accompanied by a letter from Marsh Scholar Professor Norman Sasowsky, University of Delaware...
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1920s Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pande Mus
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting shows the artist`s perception of the epidemic. The little mouse has the Latin name « Pande Mus».
This painting is bursting with surrealism and symbolism. It features a...
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2010s Futurist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gun from Clue
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media drawing by American artist A.J. Fries.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper
“The Race”
By Henry Alken
Located in Southampton, NY
Graphite and watercolor attributed to the well known British artist, Henry Thomas Alken. Circa 1825. Unsigned. Condition: Good. Provenance: Christie’s London, 1993. Matted but presently unframed.
Alken was born on 12 October 1785 in Soho, Westminster, and baptised on 6 November at St James's Church, Piccadilly. He was the third son of Samuel Alken, a sporting artist. Two of his brothers were George and Samuel Alken the Younger, also an artist. In 1789, the Alken family moved from Soho to 2, Francis Street East, Bedford Square.
Young Henry first studied under his father and then with the miniature painter John Thomas Barber...
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1820s Academic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, California Fauve
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
An elegant figural interior showing a young woman seated on a bed beside a table bearing a vase...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
"Showgirl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor on paper by Ruth Adele Mysel of a beautiful showgirl. Signed lower right. Circa 1940 to 1950. Ruth Adele Mysel was raised in Boston and attended the Ne...
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1940s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Whimsical Illustration Skiing Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being a Skiing scene, a boy and a girl on skis. signed W. Steig
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
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1930s Naturalistic Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Man in a blue and brown coat and Fashion for our Future, Diptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal, Gouache, Ink, Watercolor
"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...
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1940s American Realist Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
18th Century Watercolour - Jacob and the Pharaoh
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour interpretation of chapter forty-seven verse seven of Genesis where Joseph presents his father Jacob to the Pharaoh. The artist captures the religious figures o...
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Early 18th Century Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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