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Period: 20th Century
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-...
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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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
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
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...
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Conceptual 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite
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
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
42nd Street NYC 1923 Deco WPA Ashcan American Modern Cityscape Realism Broadway.
10 x 7 1/2 inches. Graphite on paper. Signed, titled "42nd Street" and dated July 26, 1923, lower l...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
RCA Design Art Deco Streamline Mid Century Modern American Scene Architectural
By John Vassos
Located in New York, NY
RCA Design Art Deco Streamline Mid Century Modern American Scene Architectural
John Vassos (1898-1985)
RCA 50 D Transmitter and Control Desk
12 x 19 1/2 (sight)
Mixed media on boar...
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Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
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...
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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
The Figures - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Figures is a drawing artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara in the early 20th century
Pencil and china ink on paper
Good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"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
___________________________________________...
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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...
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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
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
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
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
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
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
'Odalisque', French Watercolour of a Female Nude.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century watercolour on paper of a naked female figure before an open window. Signed bottom right but as yet not deciphered. Presented in carved, white painted wood frame.
...
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Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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
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
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...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
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
"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...
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
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
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...
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American Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Pen
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...
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Renaissance 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
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...
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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
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 ...
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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...
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Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mid Century French Expressive Ink Studies of Study of Female Faces
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Expressive Ink Studies of Study of Female Faces
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 9 (height) x 13 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: Good
Provenance: All the paintings we have by this artist have come from the artist's estate
Description: This expressive ink drawing by Josine Vignon features a study of two female faces, each rendered with bold, confident lines that capture the essence of the subjects. The larger face, positioned in the lower portion of the composition, is depicted with sweeping, fluid strokes that convey a sense of movement and intensity. The smaller face above is drawn with more delicate lines, offering a contrasting depiction of serenity and poise. Vignon’s mastery of ink is evident in her ability to convey depth and character with minimal strokes.
This drawing would be a valuable addition for collectors interested in portrait studies and the exploration of expression through line work. Josine Vignon’s art...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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...
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Abstract 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Over Head
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivaled influence on artists and image-making.
...
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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Spartan Warriors (male nude fantasy)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Amazing fantasy group male nude composition by American artist, Robert Frederick Vorreyer (1924-2016). Graphite pencil on paper, image measures 15 x 27 inches; 27.5 x 40.5 inches framed. signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation.
VORREYER, Robert Frederick
Robert Frederick Vorreyer (August 25, 1924 - January 27, 2016) was truly a master of graphic media. The power and dynamics of Robert's graphics are in the use of negative space in the skillful rendering of the human form. Handled with great sensitivity and dignity, the figures seem to be alive with a sharpness that challenges the eye of the beholder. Robert was born in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago, IL and graduated from the Downers Grove High School with and art scholarship to an accredited college. He attended the University of Illinois, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Royal Academy in London as well as studying independently with various artists. Robert was a World War II special service artist in Camp Robinson, AR and eventually became the art director for TLVA Infantry/Airborne School in Fort Benning...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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...
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Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Woman in Floral Dress (Drawing)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original drawing on paper. Hand signed on front by Tarkay. Sheet size 12 x 9 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. From the private collection...
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Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Bathers
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bathers" is an abstract figurative Impressionist monotype with gouache on paper work by Paul Gauguin in 1902. The artwork is 8 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches and is 17 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 7/8 inche...
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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Monotype
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...
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Outsider Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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
“The Grinch”
Located in Southampton, NY
The image is an original drawing of the Grinch, a character from Dr. Seuss's book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!". The drawing is signed by Virgil Ross, an American artist and cart...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Homme à l'agneau, mangeur de pastèque et flûtiste
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed, dated and numbered “Picasso / 3.2.67 / II” (upper right)
Crayon on paper
Hailed among the fathers of modern art, Pablo Picasso possessed a seemingly e...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
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.
...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil
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
Michel BRON said "Valentin", Valie, dream tent, 1966
Located in PARIS, FR
Michel BRON (1938-2010)
said VALENTIN
Valie, dream tent, 1966
Black stone and white gouache, black ink on cardboard
Signed lower left
Poem entitled “Valie!” written in pen on verso, ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pencil
To The Bathroom - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
To The Bathroom is a Colored lithograph realized on japan paper by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca.
French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director.
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Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
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
Sacré-Coeur Montmartre at Willette Square Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre at Willette Square, Paris', gouache on art paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. Created by the Director of Public Ways and Promenades under Napoleon III, Sq...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Geometric Palace Interior - Mughal School, 20th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A fascinating orientalist art deco composition.
Pen and brownish brown ink with gouache on cream wove paper, 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches (245 x 190 mm), the full sheet. In good condition w...
Category
Rajput 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, India Ink, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Henri Rapin, Gouache on Paper "Fructidor", 1924-1928
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
This gouache is a museal and historical piece. Gouache and charcoal on paper stuck on panel by Henri Rapin, France, 1924-1928. "Fructidor". With frame: 80x114x3 cm - 31.5x44.9x1.2, w...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Hal Hurst (1865-1938) - Early 20th Century Gouache, Fishing Boats
By Hal Hurst
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame.
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Untitled (Man Reading Newspaper)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. His works ...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Nude of Woman - Mixed Media by Marino Marini - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
China ink, pastel, tempera and watercolor on paper realized in the 1930s. Hand Signed lower right. Includes certificate of authenticity by the Fondazione Marino Marini signed by Maria Teresa Tosi. Archived in the Marino Marino...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Tempera, Watercolor
Leonardo da Vinci Illustrated Book Study - Renaissance Man
Located in Miami, FL
The present illustration by husband-and-wife team Alice and Martin Provensen is a study for Leonardo da Vinci's illustrated Book, executed c...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
UNTITLED (TWO HEADS)
By George Condo
Located in Aventura, FL
Original conte crayon on paper. Dated "12.84" lower margin. Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Artwork size 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Fram...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Landscape - Drawing by Michele Ricciuti - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a watercolor on paper realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1984.
Hand signed and dated lower left.
Very good condition.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
