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Horse & Rider Attacking Foot Soldier from De La Bataille Vol. I
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Homage a Leonardo d'Vinci (Horse & Rider Attacking Foot Soldier from De La Bataille Vol. I)
Original drypoint, signed lower right, ed. VIII/L
Art: 11-5/8" x 15-1/2"
Frame: 27-5/8"...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Drypoint
Male nudes II, sketch by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Keith Vaughan
Male nudes II
Ballpoint pen sketch
17 x 13 cm
Born in 1912, Keith Vaughan was a British painter known for his modernist and semi-abstract depictions of the male fig...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Sketch - Drawing in Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is an original drawing in Pencil, on creamy-colored paper realized b in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions except for cutaways on the right margin.
The artwork is depic...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Le Prince Alexandre Bibesco - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Le Prince Alexandre Bibesco is an Original ink and watercolor drawing realized by an artist of French School of the early 20th century.
Good condition on a...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Birds - Original Ink Drawing by Louis Touchagues - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Birds is an Original Drawing realized by Louis Touchagues in the mid 20th Century.
Drawing in ink and pen.
Hand-signed on the lower by the artist.
Good conditions.
The delica...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Maurice Mazeilie, French Impressionist Watercolour - Two Figures At The Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Watercolour Beach Scene"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
Watercolour painting on paper, unframed
Stamped verso
Painting: 4.25 x 5.5 inches
A delightful original oil painting by the 2...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
French Impressionist Signed Watercolour, Figures on Bright Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Figures On The Beach"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
Watercolour painting on paper, unframed
Double sided.
Painting: 5 x 8 inches.
A delightful original oil painting by the 20th cen...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Fisherman On Quay Maurice Mazeilie, French Impressionist Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Pecheur
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
stamped verso
painting: 6 x 9 inches
A delightful original painting by the 20th century French Impre...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Mid Century French Ink Illustration of a Happy Walker with Backpack
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Illustration of a Happy Walker with Backpack
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink and Paper on paper
Size: 7 (height) x 5.25 (width)
...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$106 Sale Price
85% Off
La Jeune Danseuse Espagnole Rosita Rivera, Dans la Danse du Feu
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "La Jeune Danseuse Espagnole Rosita Rivera, Dans la Danse du Feu" c.1945 is a watercolor, pastel and black stone on paper by noted...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
By Roz Jennings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original Fashion Design Illustration
by Roz Jennings, British
watercolor and ink on card, unframed
size: 12 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good
A beautifully colorful and characterfu...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Framed 20th Century Watercolour - A Loyal Companion
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour and gouache study of a young child, lying outdoors with a black and white springer spaniel. Well presented in a circular gilt frame with hatching and foliate d...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The girl from Saint Tropez: American artist in the South of France portrait
Located in Norwich, GB
Alexander Warshawsky was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 29, 1887. He studied painting at the Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City. Warshawsky...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled (Nude Man with Raised Leg)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by Mark Beard is already framed, price includes framing.
Untitled (Nude Man with Raised Leg)
1990
Signed and dated, l.l.
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on R...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Charcoal
Attrib. Gordon Browne RI, RBA (1858-1932) - c.1913 Pen & Ink Drawing, Mr. Craig
Located in Corsham, GB
A pen and ink drawing attributed to the well known British artist Gordon Frederick Browne. Label to the reverse reads 'Gordon Frederick Browne RI, RB (1858-1932) Son of 'Phiz'. Exhib...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Mid Century French Pencil Sketch Portrait of a Elegant Lady in Pearls
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 10.75 (height) x 8.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
Cond...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
$120 Sale Price
30% Off
Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet in Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'The Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, Paris', gouache on art paper by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). In Paris' 5th Arrondissement the site in which Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet is ...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Mouth of Honey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Mouth of Honey
Lithographic crayon and mixed media on paper mounted to support paper
Initialed by the artist "GB" bottom center on image. (see photo)
Titled in pencil in bottom m...
Category
Ashcan School 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
"Verdant Park" Landscape Painting 12" x 16" inch (1979) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Verdant Park" Landscape Painting 12" x 16" inch (1979) by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibiti...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Landscape - Drawing by Ardengo Soffici - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by Ardengo Soffici in 1930s.
Pencil on paper.
Hand signed lower right.
Includes frame.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
Corpse Drawing #47, The Return of the Cadavre Exquis hand signed by four artists
Located in New York, NY
Francisco Fernández, Claudia Fernández, Diego Toledo, Hector Quinones
Corpse Drawing #47, The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, 1993
Ink, graphite, acrylic, and watercolor, with collage
...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite, Ink
"Three Ribbon Heads", Art Deco Hand Colored Lithograph by John Luke Eastman 1984
Located in Soquel, CA
"Three Ribbon Heads", Art Deco Female Figurative by John Luke Eastman. 1984
Beautiful mid-1980's hand colored Art Deco style lithograph by Southern California artist John Luke Eastman (American, b.1929). In this 1984 version of Eastman's "Three Ribbon Heads", a delicate flowing line drawing of three consecutive women's faces in profile are framed by ribbons in a circular composition. As in many of the artist's works, Eastman captions the piece with the following phrase: " In this life we have three lasting qualities...faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of them is love."
Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right, "John L. Eastman 84" artists proof.
Displayed in a light grey mat and new art deco-style giltwood frame.
Paper size: 20"H x 16"W.
Framed size: 19.5"H x 23.25"W x 1"D.
John Luke Eastman is a Southern California artist with a unique style.
A graduate of UCLA with a degree in graphic arts, he was successful fashion illustrator and art director for prestigious department store in L. A. before turning his full attention to fine art. Over the part decade he has created and mastered the unique style that is currently found in his limited edition silk-screen graphics. A versatile artist, who has illustrated many record and book covers he refers to his style as "the 5th dimension" or "beautiful distortion". The qualities he seeks to impart through his works are fluidity of movement, a feeling of spatiality, weightlessness and beautiful color.
His artworks have been in a lot of shows across the country. He recently had show at Celux (Louis Vuitton membership...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Lithograph
"Abstract Composition VII" Watercolor painting 14" x 10" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition VII" Watercolor painting 14" x 10" in by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Violin Player Watercolor
By Chaim Gross
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Violin Player 1960/65
work size 11x29, with frame 18x36 inches, artist signed.
Chaim Gross (1904 Austria–1991 USA) will always be remembered as one of the foremost American artist : ...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen, Archival Paper
Camille Hilaire - Nature - Signed Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Camille Hilaire - Nature
Signed Original Lithograph
Edition: 38 x 26 cm
Framed
Edition: 17/175
Camille Hilaire
(1916-2004)
Camille Hilaire began painting from a young age. At fif...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
View of Paris - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
View of Paris is an artwork realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Watercolor drawing on paper.
Good conditions.
The artwork is created through deft brushstokes and har...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Track Star - Figurative Portrait of an African American Man in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Track Star - Abstracted Portrait of an African American Man in Pastel on Paper
Bold and imaginative pastel drawing of a man in a track suit by an unknown artist (20th Century). An A...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Mid Century French Portrait Seated Figures with Hat and Loose Shirt
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated figure
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 12 (height) x 8.5 (width)
Condition: G...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
$144 Sale Price
30% Off
Summer Siesta 1959 New Wave period large drawing relaxed young woman daydreaming
Located in Norwich, GB
All the sun and the joie de vivre of the mediterranean in one large drawing! Dated 1959, the work evokes Brigitte Bardot, the French Riviera and French New Wave Cinema.
The artist is Dany Lartigue, son of photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, Dany was brought up between Paris and Saint Tropez, which was still a fisherman’s village at the time. Although as an artist Dany worked from Montmartre studio, the Cote d’Azur of his childhood remained his spiritual home, and he returned there often. In Saint Tropez, by then fashionable, he would meet his friends Juliette Greco...
Category
French School 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Charcoal
Fauvist Pastel on Paper, "Lunch in Provence", After Henri Matisse
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist pastel on paper of a Provençal lunch. Signed bottom right but as yet not deciphered. Presented in a white frame under perspex.
A charming, highly colourful and ...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
$810 Sale Price
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Frosch Serenade - Drawing by L. von Hoffmann - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Frosch Serenade is an original drawing in watercolour and pencil on paper, realized by Ludwig Von Hofmann .
Framed.
In very good conditions.
The artwork represents a nude woman-bu...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
PLAYBOY BUNNY
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Synthetic polymer drawing on paper. Unsigned. Warhol Foundation stamp on verso. Sheet size 31.5 x 23.5 inches. Custom framed as pictured.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Cert...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Polymer
$975,000
Mid Century French Pencil Sketch of A Blonde Women with Bright Red Lipstick
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Crayon on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9.5 height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Pro...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Frog - Drawing in pencil by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is a drawing in pencil realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934)
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes.
Emmanuel Gondouin is a French Cubist...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"The Artists Wife" Realistic Nude Woman in Conté on Paper by Garth Benton
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Artists Wife" Realistic Nude Woman in Conté on Paper by Garth Benton
Detailed nude drawing by Paul "Garth" Garfield Benton (American, 1940-2012). Po...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Mid Century French Pencil Studies of Seated Woman in a Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pencil Studies of Seated Woman in a Dress
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 9.75 (height) x 6.5 (width)
Stamped: Ve...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$115 Sale Price
72% Off
Nude Laying Over the Edge of the Bed in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Laying Over the Edge of the Bed in Pastel on Paper
Elegant pastel composition of a nude woman by an unknown artist (20th Century). The model is laying on her back, with her hea...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Worker - Watercolor by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a tailor made frame realized by the Artist, 108.5x84.5 cm.
Very good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini,...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vase of Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Yesterday's Ladies" Figurative Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming "Yesterday's Ladies" drawing by Aptos, California artist Virginia J Hughins,(Virginia Brubaker DeWolf), (American, 1923-2004). Presented in a rustic black wood frame. Signed...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
$357 Sale Price
35% Off
View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower left.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Untitled- Portrait. Pencil or archival paper drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Mid Century French Pencil Sketch Fashionable Sketches of Figures and Faces
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal /watercolour/ink on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9.5 height) x 7.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil, Ink
"Indian Dance", Multicolor Abstract Geometric Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright and colorful abstract geometric watercolor with multicolor connected forms cascading in a dynamic vertical composition by Ellwood Graham (American, 1911-2007). Signed "GRAHAM" in the upper right corner, and "Ellwood Graham" on verso. Circa 1961-1966. The title "Indian Dance...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
$805 Sale Price
30% Off
"Abstract Composition" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" inch by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" inch by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
German expressionist drawing by Carl Hofer' Whispering'
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Einflusterung (Whispering)
Charcoal and pencil on paper
Signed and inscribed ‘Einflusterung’ (lower middle)
17.1/4 x 13.3/8 in. (43.8 x 34 cm.)
Provenance: These works come from the artist’s second wife Elizabeth and from then by descent.
Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter and the director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most important painters of the Expressionist movement, his work was among those that was considered degenerate art by the Nazis. He studied in Karlsruhe under Hans Thoma. He first visited Paris in 1899 making acquaintance with Julius Meier-Graefe. In 1902 he studied in Stuttgardt and became friends with the sculptor Hermann Haller...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sketches - l Charcoal by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an original Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition except for some spots on a white paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil....
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Expressionist Gouache and Watercolour Study for 'Alexander and His Army'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French late 20th century watercolour and gouache study for the series 'Alexander and His Army' by Stephane Lovighi-Bourgogne. Presented in plain wood frame.
A strong and forceful de...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
View of Burano - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1978.
Hand signed lower right.
Hand signed and dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
6th Avenue Elevated
19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches
Watercolor on paper
Signed an...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sex Appeal - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1970s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Sex Appeal is adrawing on paper, realized around the Sixties by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Blue ink drawing on paper.
Signed "M...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
" Nijinsky " dans Shéhérazade . certified .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 )
Nijinsky dancer in Shéhérazade .
circa 1930 .
dessin original encre de chine et crayon .
certificat Madame Annie Guedras N° 6668 D
dessin : 27 x 21 c...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932
Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow)
Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist
Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699
Provenance:
Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame
Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon
Nude Figurative Drawing in Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Clean and confident sketch of a nude model by an unknown San Francisco Bay Area artist (20th Century). A woman is lying down on her back, with her arms above her head and legs up on ...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Laid Paper
$360 Sale Price
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Vogue Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
"Mademoiselle X" story illustration
for Vogue February 1, 1934, watercolor and ink, reverse signed in pencil "Benito for Madame X," pencil inscription "Feb.1, 1934 / Page 51 / 316," ...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
French Sketch of a Glamorous Woman Victory Rolls Hairstyle and Bold Red Lips
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 10 (height) x 6.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
P...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Mid Century French Drawing of a Classical Bald Male Bust
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Male Bust
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 19 (height) x 12.5 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition:...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
$125 Sale Price
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