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Period: 20th Century
1920's Illustration of a Country Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed figurative illustration of a young woman leaning against a fence. The woman is wearing a plaid dress and bonnet with a black ribbon. Some of the landscape has been il...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink, Gouache
Landscape - Drawing by Eliane Diverly - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized in the Early-20th Century.
Pencil and Watercolor.
Good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Design for a large wooden confessional from the Fantoni Workshop
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful 17th century design for a confessional from the most important woodshop in Bergamo.
Pen and grayish black ink on cream laid paper, 11 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (283 x 185 mm), ...
Category
Old Masters 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
Walter Duncan (1848-1932) - 1904 Watercolour, Meeting at the Stile
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour scene depicting two young lovers on a country walk under the disapproving watch of a steward, Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a decorative gi...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
IN THE BOTTOM OF MY GARDEN FS II.86-105
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Complete book comprising of 20 offset lithographs and cardboard cover, all hand-colored with watercolor. From the edition of unknown size. All 20 sheets bound (as issued). Minor ti...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) Poèmes magyars
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
Poèmes magyars, Magyar poems
bears the monogram "M" on the lower left, titled in the upper right
Ink on paper
29,8 x 19,8 cm
in good condition, the sheet is slightly yellowed
In a modern frame : 33 x 23 cm
This is an illustration project by Felician Myrbach for François Coppée's work, "Poèmes magyars". He leaves the space to be occupied by the text blank on the sheet and arranges his composition accordingly. It is interesting to see the artist imagine his drawing with this constraint.
Felician Myrbach (also Felicien de Myrbach, Felician von Myrbach, from 1919 Freiherr von Rheinfeld) was born on 9 February 1853 in Zalishchyky, he died 14 January 1940 in Klagenfurt
He was an Austrian painter, graphic designer and illustrator. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession and the director of the Applied Arts School in Vienna (now the University of Applied Arts Vienna), and was instrumental in the creation of the Wiener Werkstätte.
Myrbach's father was Franz Myrbach (1818–1882), the Administrator of Bukovina in 1865–70. His older brother Franz Xaver (1850–1919) was an economist and professor at the University of Innsbruck. He attended the Theresian Military Academy in 1868–71, graduating as a Leutnant, then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under August Eisenmenger. In 1875, he joined the 19th Feldjäger Battalion, and in 1877 became an Oberleutnant in the Military Geographic Institute, then, after campaigning in Bosnia in 1878, he taught drawing at the Infantry Cadet School in Vienna. He continued his artistic studies under C R Huber. In 1881, he went on military leave and moved to Paris, retiring totally from the military in 1884 as a Hauptmann, 2nd Class. He stayed in Paris until 1897, working as an illustrator, including illustrating the works of Alphonse Daudet, Victor Hugo and Jules Verne.
Myrbach was a founding member of the Vienna Secession in 1897. In the same year, he became the a professor of the Applied Arts School at the Museum of Art and Industry; Arthur von Scala, another reformer Modernist, was made head of the Museum. In 1889, Myrbach became the director of the school. He brought an enthusiastic Modernist attitude and encouraged an integration between art, design and production. He added Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann to the staff, amongst other Secession artists. This would lead to the foundation of the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. Myrbach leant more towards an aesthetic approach than von Scala, but both worked together to bring about their combined vision of successful, popular Austrian applied art. Myrbach was a voice for reform towards Modernist ideals in the School, which was started 1899 with the support of Alfred Roller, and completed by 1901.The reform of the school has been described as his "lasting merit".
Ludwig Hevesi called Myrbach "probably the best [illustrator] in Vienna", partially for his work (with Moser) in the Secession magazine Ver Sacrum.
Myrbach visited America on a state-funded study trip in 1904, part of which was to represent the Applied Arts School at the 1904 World...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Violinist (Portrait of Young Man with Violin)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Outstanding male portrait by 20th-century American artist, Vito Tomasello.
Portrait of a Violinist, 1950.
Charcoal on paper, sheet measures 13 x 19 inches.
Signed lower left.
A ...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Femme Cheval
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Miami, FL
Wifredo Lam
“Femme Cheval” 1971
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 in
Signed and dated at the bottom left corner
Provenance:
Gallerry Dobbelhoef, Kessel.
Private Collection, Brussel.
Campo and...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) A naked woman seated, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967)
A naked young woman seated
Charcoal and red chalk on thin paper transfered on cardboard
49 x 39 cm
Framed : 55.5 x 45.5 cm
Octave Denis...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
The Dancer - Drawing - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Dancer is a drawing realized by an anonymous in the mid-20th century.
Charcoal drawing on paper.
Written on the lower "EN DEUXIEME"
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Ink Drawing on Card signed " Marc Chagall ", dated 1921
By Marc Chagall
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Attributed to Marc Chagall – “L’Homme à la Lampe” Ink Drawing on paper/ card
Documented History - Christie’s South Kensington Ltd Auction Estimate: £4,000 in April 2001
L’Homme à...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mid Century French Pencil Portrait of a Posed Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9 (height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Prov...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
French Impressionist Watercolor Signed by Gaston La Touche in Nymph Frame
Located in Pistoia, IT
"Nymph in the Forest" watercolor on paper signed Gaston La Touche.
Gaston de La Touche (1854-1913), also known as Gaston La Touche, was a French painter, engraver, illustrator and s...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rare Large Original British Illustration Art Watercolor Painting "Horse Races"
Located in Surfside, FL
Sue Macartney-Snape Watercolor painting (with highlights of gold metallic paint) titled on label "Goodwood Races"
Signed with initials verso.
Info on label verso Dimensions: H 38.75...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Costume Design - Gouache by Erté - 1970
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Costume Design is an original modern artwork realized in 1970s by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower m...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #8), 1952, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Chinatown, San Francisco
By Edward Wilson Currier
Located in London, GB
'Chinatown, San Francisco', gouache on fine art paper, by Edward Wilson Currier (1903). Spofford Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown is best known for an address (number 36) where Dr. Sun Yat-Sen plotted the overthrow of China's last dynasty. During Prohibition, it was the site of turf battles over local bootlegging and protection rackets. Today it is lined with seniors' community centres. However, the quiet alley livens up in the evenings when a Chinese orchestra strikes up a tune, mah-jongg games begin with a cascade of clicking tiles, and barbers and florists use the pretence of sweeping their doorsteps to gossip. In this artist's depiction, a man smokes a long-stemmed Chinese pipe under the awning and colourful lanterns hanging from the wooden supports while a child looks on. The artwork is interesting from several standpoints including architectural, cultural and historical. Shortly after this work was painted, the neighbourhood was completely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake that levelled most of the city. From 1910 to 1940, Chinese immigrants were detained at the Angel Island...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Landscape with Horses and Ladies, Pastel Drawing by Hughes Pissarro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hugues Claude Pissarro, also known professionally as H. Claude Pissarro, is the grandson of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and son of Paulémile Pissarro. Born in Neuilly-...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
1951 Graphite on Paper Figure Study-Standing Male- Torso by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 black and white figure study of a nude male, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to: 24" x 30". Provenance: Estate of the Artist. Es...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
"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
Race Car
Located in Houston, TX
Subtle French ink wash in shades of black and blue of a race car, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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
Provencal Plane Trees in Winter
Located in London, GB
'Provencal Plane Trees in Winter', gouache on art paper, by Max Escalon de Fonton (1946). The plane trees found in Provence in the South of France are a hybrid of the Asian and Ameri...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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
Death March — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (Death March)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with margins (3/8 to 5/16 inch). Minor toning at the board edges, otherwise in very good condition. Image size 12 5/16 x 9 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
One of a series of powerful Anti-fascist brush and ink drawings created by the artist at the commencement of the Spanish Civil War...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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
Portrait of Young Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Outstanding male portrait by 20th-century American artist, Vito Tomasello.
Portrait of a young man, c.1950. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 14 x 17 inches.
Excellent condition. S...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Tippie Comic Strip Original Art - Female Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
An early example from pioneering Female Cartoonist/ Illustrator Edwina Dumm, who draws a comic strip from her long-running cartoon series Tippie which lasted for almost five decades. Signed and dated Edwina, 9-25, matted but unframed.
Frances Edwina Dumm (1893 – April 28, 1990) was a writer-artist who drew the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie for nearly five decades; she is also notable as America's first full-time female editorial cartoonist. She used her middle name for the signature on her comic strip, signed simply Edwina.
Biography
One of the earliest female syndicated cartoonists, Dumm was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and lived in Marion and Washington Courthouse, Ohio throughout her youth before the family settled down in Columbus.[1] Her mother was Anna Gilmore Dennis, and her father, Frank Edwin Dumm, was an actor-playwright turned newspaperman. Dumm's paternal grandfather, Robert D. Dumm, owned a newspaper in Upper Sandusky which Frank Dumm later inherited. Her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, was a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, and art editor for Cole Publishing Company's Farm & Fireside magazine.
In 1911, she graduated from Central High School in Columbus, Ohio, and then took the Cleveland-based Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Her name was later featured in Landon's advertisements. While enrolled in the correspondence course, she also took a business course and worked as a stenographer at the Columbus Board of Education.
In 1915, Dumm was hired by the short-lived Republican newspaper, the Columbus Monitor, to be a full-time cartoonist.[2] Her first cartoon was published on August 7, 1915, in the debut issue of the paper. During her years at the Monitor she provided a variety of features including a comic strip called The Meanderings of Minnie about a young tomboy girl and her dog, Lillie Jane, and a full-page editorial cartoon feature, Spot-Light Sketches[3]. She drew editorial cartoons for the Monitor from its first edition (August 7, 1915) until the paper folded (July 1917). In the Monitor, her Spot-Light Sketches was a full-page feature of editorial cartoons, and some of these promoted women's issues. Elisabeth Israels Perry, in the introduction to Alice Sheppard's Cartooning for Suffrage (1994), wrote that artists such as Blanche Ames Ames, Lou Rogers and Edwina Dumm produced:
...a visual rhetoric that helped create a climate more favorable to change in America's gender relations... By the close of the suffrage campaign, women's art reflected the new values of feminism, broadened its targets, and attempted to restate the significance of the movement.[4]
After the Monitor folded, Dumm moved to New York City, where she continued her art studies at the Art Students League. She was hired by the George Matthew Adams Service[5] to create Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a family strip following the lives of a boy Cap, his dog Tippie, their family, and neighbors. Cap's grandmother, Sara Bailey, is prominently featured, and may have been based on Dumm's own grandmother, Sarah Jane Henderson, who lived with their family. The strip was strongly influenced by Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dumm’s favorite comic, Buster Brown by Richard F. Outcault. Dumm worked very fast; according to comics historian Martin Sheridan, she could pencil a daily strip in an hour.[6]
Her love of dogs is evident in her strips as well as her illustrations for books and magazines, such as Sinbad, her weekly dog page which ran in both Life and the London Tatler. She illustrated Alexander Woollcott's Two Gentlemen and a Lady. For Sonnets from the Pekinese and Other Doggerel (Macmillan, 1936) by Burges Johnson (1877–1963), she illustrated "Losted" and other poems.
From the 1931 through the 1960s, she drew another dog for the newspaper feature Alec the Great, in which she illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm. Their collaboration was published as a book in 1946. In the late 1940s, she drew the covers for sheet music by her friend and neighbor, Helen Thomas, who did both music and lyrics. During the 1940s, she also contributed Tippie features to various comic books including All-American Comics and Dell Comics.
In 1950, Dumm, Hilda Terry, and Barbara Shermund...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite
Woman in Flight /// Contemporary Fantasy Female Figurative Pastel Painting Lady
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Frank Rakoncay (American, 1936-1998)
Title: "Woman in Flight"
*Signed by Rakoncay in pencil lower left. It is also signed again lower right
Circa: 1980
Medium: Original Oil P...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel, Pencil, Graphite
CHOCOLATE BUNNY FS IIIA.49
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint, on Stonehenge paper, with full margins. Unsigned. Warhol Foundation stamp on verso. Sheet size 30.25 x 22 inches. Image size 22.5 x 18.125 inches. Custom framed as p...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Screen
"Collage III" 1992 signed original mixed media work on paper w photo engravings
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'Collage III', 1992
collage, ink on paper
11.9 x 13.8 in. (30 x 35 cm.)
ID: 1D199203
Hand-signed by author
___________________________________________...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and drew from life models throug...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
A Winter - Seeming Summers Night
By June Wayne
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUNE WAYNE (1918 - 2011)
A WINTER - SEEMING SUMMER'S NIGHT, 1957 From the John Donne Series. (Conway 122, Basket 106: Gilmour 50)
Lithograph signed, title...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Houses in Paris - Drawing by Orfeo Tamburi - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and Watercolor on paper realized by Orfeo Tamburi in 1950s.
Hand signed lower right.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 37x43.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A charming illustration, by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows a woman with a...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Parrot, 20th Century Watercolor by New York Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965)
Parrot
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
25 x 19 inches
31.25 x 25.25 inches, framed
Born in 1876 in Illinois, Jane Peterson would grow into ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rio della Misericordia, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame.
The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy.
The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west:
the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and
the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia .
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
North Sea
Located in Dallas, TX
from the Padoli Monotypes III
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
Figure - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in carbon Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions except for aged...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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 beautifu...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Homme Assis et Personnage - Pencil Drawing by A. Giacometti - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Homme assis et personnage is a pencil drawing realized by Alberto Giacometti on a page of Louis Guilloux's "La merveille", published in "Les Lettres Nouvelles", n°7, septembre 1953, p. 779.
Giacometti sketched a male portrait in his typical style. The man is in profile and on the right side of the page there is a small study of a standing figure.
Following Fondation Giacometti, it was realized by the author on September 1953.
As James Lord...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Vintage Fashion Sketch - Pocket Dress & Coat
Located in Houston, TX
Graceful gouache fashion sketch of a dress suit and simple winter coat, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, (Colors, new tales follow...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for Remy de Gourmont, Couleurs, published in Le Mercure de France
(Colors, new tales follow old things), 1908
Graphite and colored...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
French school, circa 1900, Studies of characters, four drawings
Located in Paris, FR
French School circa 1900
Studies of characters, four drawings in a same frame
Pencil on paper
Sizes of the drawings (from left to right and from top to bottom)
A couple at a table ...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: E...
Category
Renaissance 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Female Figures Gossiping Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 15 x 19.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
c...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Debonair Man Cuts his Mustache in Front of Mirror
Located in Miami, FL
Welcome to the wonderfully delightful mind of Ludwig Bemelmans.
With a few quick lines, Bemelmans captures the essence of a subject. In this work, the artist portrays a distinguished...
Category
Outsider Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Mid Century French Sketch of a Singing Figure with a Broad Brimmed Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 25 (height) x 19 (width)
Stamped: Verso...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
La Loire
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and black ink on watermarked Ingres laid paper, 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (234 x 310 mm), signed, dated and titled in brown ink, and initialed and titled in black ink in the lower right corner. Light to moderate age tone and mat tone, and with the signature and notations in brown ink having become quite attenuated, although legible. Presented in a basic black wood frame with a label from the Country Art...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Pen
"I Think I Will" Modern Oval Drawing of a Nude Woman with Wings and Boots
Located in Houston, TX
Modern oval figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings and cowboy boots by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist next to the figure's right hip. Hung...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Vintage French Fashion Sketch - Two Tone Dress Jacket
By Serge Matta
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage French watercolor and ink fashion sketch of a simple dress jacket in grey and white by haute couture designer Serge Matta, circa 1960...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA. 8 x 10 ¾ inches. Graphite on paper, 1936. Initialed on lower right. The play opens October 14, 1936 at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre.
Handwritten title, date, and signature on lower center of original matte which is now affixed to the verso. Inscription on lower right of matte reads, "For Prince & Barbara - Jo Mielziner...
Category
Performance 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Cattle, Ink on Paper Painting by Louis De Mayo
By Louis de Mayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cattle
Louis De Mayo, American (1926–2016)
Ink on paper, signed in pencil lower right
Size: 8.25 x 6.25 in. (20.96 x 15.88 cm)
Frame Size: 16.25 x 14.25 inches
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Jewel that is London, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
The Jewel that is London
Airbrush and gouache
26 x 33 cm
c.1930
Signed to reverse
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a Brit...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
City - Mixed Media by N. Czinober - mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
City is an original drawing in pencil made by the Hungarian artist Nicolas Czinober in the mid-20th century.The state of preservation is good, the paper presents some small stains.
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Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil
Un Rassemblement - Figurative Drawing
By Milo Quam
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully provocative sketch drawing of a gathering of men and women in pencil by outsider artist Mylo Quam (American, 1941-1996). Signed lower right. Presented in giltwood frame with black mat under glass. Image size: 8.25"H x 10.50"W.
A long-time Woodstock area resident, Mylo Quam was a self-taught painter and draughtsman whose provocative figural work has been compared to Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli and Hieronymous Bosch, as well as to twentieth-century artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Quam was an avid reader who derived inspiration from such varied arenas as Shakespeare, the occult, the Bible, Eastern and Western mythology, politics, and popular culture. "I look at everything," the artist was quoted as saying in 1990. "I read the comic pages. Anything visual. There's very little I don't think is a subject for art."
Born in North Dakota, Quam studied Greek language and other classical subjects at Brandeis, Boston, and New York Universities, and worked as a translator of Greek plays while just 17 years old. After a successful career as an actor that included numerous Off-Broadway performances and a leading role in the 1968 Broadway production of Royal Hunt of the Sun, Quam turned his focus to painting.
His first one-man exhibition was at the Boatman Gallery, NYC in 1969 and was followed by twenty solo shows over the course of his career at venues including Gallery A, Flynn Gallery, CFM Gallery, Brewster Gallery, Imperial Gallery, Runyon Winchell Gallery and the Gallery of Erotic Art, all in New York City.
Quam's work was also exhibited at the John Pense Gallery in San Francisco, the Clark-Whitney Gallery in Massachusetts, the Barrett House and Desmond Weiss Galleries in Poughkeepsie, and for many years at the Ann Leonard Gallery in Woodstock.
Quam's paintings were exhibited internationally, as well, notably in a solo exhibition in Haiti-- the first by an American artist in that country. In addition, he was one of four artists to represent the United States in La Bienalle di Venezia, Italia of 1986. As a young man, Quam designed sets and/or costumes for the Actor's Playhouse in New York City, the Lucas Hovig Ballet Company, and the Opera Municipal de Marseilles, France. He also created illustrations for The Story of O...
Category
Outsider Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
" Profil d'Homme "
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 )
" Profil d'homme " circa 1930 .
signé et daté .
Le Livre Blanc ( ouvrage N°1 ) de jean Cocteau
collection Anne-marie Julien .
dessin : 27 X 21 cm
enca...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Mid Century Seated Nude Figure Study (unfinished)
Located in Soquel, CA
Seated nude figure study by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Yeager work directly from the estate. This piece is on heavy bond paper with ragged edges and is unfinished. No frame.
Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
