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Period: Mid-20th Century
'Costume Design for Look Homeward, Angel', Anthony Perkins, Broadway, Hollywood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'DJ' and dated 1957. Titled, 'Look Homeward, Angel' and 'Eugene Grant, Anthony Perkins'. Inscribed with costume designer notes and bearing costumer's fabric swatches. Costumes for this production were undertaken by Motley Design Group (Margaret Harris, Audrey Sophia Harris and Elizabeth Montgomery).
Premiering on November 28, 1957 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, 'Look Homeward, Angel' ran for a total of 564 performances, closing on April 4, 1959. Directed by George Roy Hill, written by Ketti Frings, and based on Thomas Wolfe's 1929 largely autobiographical novel of the same title, the cast starred Jo Van Fleet and Anthony Perkins. Ketti Frings won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The production received Tony Award nominations for Best Play; Best Actor in a Play (Hugh Griffith...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Fabric, India Ink, Graphite
Raphael Soyer Original Lithograph/Watercolor, 1955, "The Dancer"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Raphael Soyer Original Lithograph - Watercolor added by the artist's hand, 1955
The image measures 13" H x 8 ½" W. Frame measures: 23 1/4"H x 18" W
Signed lower right in pencil bene...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper
Lowell Houser Watercolor, circa 1940's, Cuban Promenade
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original watercolor, circa late 1940's by Lowell D. Houser (1902-1971).
Subject: Cuba. Framed and in excellent condition.
Measures 10 x 17 inches. Frame measures 22 1/4 x 29 1//4 inc...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint
John Whorf Watercolor - Morning, Barbados
By John Whorf
Located in Phoenix, AZ
John Whorf (1903-1959) watercolor, boats in Barbados.
Measures: 16 1/4" H x 23" W. In excellent condition, framed.
Signed lower left.
The Island men setting out for the day's catch.
...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper
The Vortex - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Vortex is a pencil and watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Horse Riding - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Horse Riding is a Pastel and Charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal, Pastel
Figure - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 1...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Meeting - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Meeting is a charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Jumping - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Jumping is a charcoal and watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Ju...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dance - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Dance is an ink and watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Ro...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Gathering - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Gathering is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Ju...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Conversation - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is a watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Conversation - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome,...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Menacing - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Menacing is a pen drawing Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, J...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Paper
Soldier - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Soldier is an ink and watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Duel - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1935
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Duel is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1935.
Monogrammed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 1...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Two Worlds Festival - Spoleto - Watercolor by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Two Worlds Festival - Spoleto is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1960 ca.
Drawing pwatercolor on paper, with another drawing in pen on the rear
Good conditions ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Composition - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1960 ca.
Drawing pen on yellowed paper. Hand Signed on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Si...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
people on the bar terrace spanish modernism colored pencils
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Bar - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 11x13cm.
Frame measures 35x37 cm.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Barcelona Spain pencil drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Eliseo Meifren Roig (1859-1940) - Barcelona - Pencil drawing
Drawing measurements 9x12 cm.
Frame measurements 22x25 cm.
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Located in New York, NY
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
ChITA RIVERA in BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
M...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Located in New York, NY
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Miles White (1915 – 2000)
BYE BYE BIRDIE
11 x 8 inches
Mixed Media on Paper
Signed Lower Right
Framed by Bark
Affixed to the back are original gold lame fabric swatches.
This drawing is available, along with two other original costume drawings from BIRDIE by Miles White, another of Conrad Birdie and one of Chita Rivera.
Miles White, a leading Broadway and Hollywood costume designer for decades. created costumes for the original Broadway productions of OKLAHOMA CAROUSEL, BYE BYE BIRDIE and many others.
In film he worked on "Around the World in 80 Days" and "The Greatest Show on Earth." He designed Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and the Ice Capades for many years.
Miles was a close friend for the last 20 years of his life. We live with one of his two Tony Awards and a dozen drawings.
BYE BYE BIRDIE is a stage musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
The Models
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early original drawing by Hans Burkhardt.
Hans Burkhardt
1904 - 1994
Hans Burkhardt was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1904, emigrating to New York in 1924.
Upon his arrival to ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
A Lonely Angel - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Un Angelo solitario is a drawing on paper, realized around the Sixties by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Black ink drawing (watercolor)...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Figure Study (Conversation)
Located in Chicago, IL
An ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon that depicts a conversation.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago w...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Figure Study (Conversation)
Located in Chicago, IL
A ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon depicting a conversation.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled (Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Male Foot Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Male Foot Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1964. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Fish Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Young Man Reading Beside his Dog)
Located in Chicago, IL
A watercolor of a man reading beside his dog by artist Harold Haydon. Provenance: Estate of the Artist. Estate stamped on reverse.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William,...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Male Bathers, Morocco
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A Mid-Century watercolor in muted tones of a male bather in Morocco by artist Andre Delfau.
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, se...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled (Beach Scene, Standing Male Bather)
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A Modernist and Mid-Century and colorful watercolor of a standing figure by artist Andre Delfau.
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stag...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Reg Butler Abstract Figurative Signed "Manipulator"
By Reg Butler
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
"Manipulator" is an abstracted figurative drawing in charcoal and graphite. The figure seems to be "manipulating" some object it holds without visual clarity as w...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Charcoal
Stained glass window watercolour by Louis Osman FRIBA
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surreal figure watercolor spanish surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Eugenio Granell (1912-2001) - Surrealist figure. Watercolor
Watercolor measures 29x22 cm.
Frame measures 56x49 cm.
Eugenio Granell was born in La Coruña in 1912. He lived most of his childhood in Santiago de Compostela, a city that marked a large part of his artistic work.
From a young age, he showed a great predisposition to art, specifically to music, and in 1928 he moved to Madrid to study violin at the Escuela Superior de Música. There he met the composer and director Enrique Casal Chapí. It is at this time when he begins to attend political and literary gatherings in Madrid cafes. His circle of friends - such as Benjamín Péret or Wilfredo Lam - brought him closer to the orbit of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM), in which he began to serve in 1935.
At the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, he joined the militias loyal to the republican government to defend the capital and combined this activity with the direction of El Combatiente Rojo, the POUM newspaper. After the war ended, he was doubly persecuted; on the one hand, the victorious fascist army, which tried to get rid of any signs of active resistance against the new regime. On the other hand, Granell would suffer the persecution of his own communist comrades, since, under Stalin's mandate, the POUM and its militancy -of a Trotskyist nature and opposed to the Stalinist line of the Soviet Union- were considered enemies of communism and, therefore, this, condemned to persecutions and murders.
Thus, in 1939, he must move to France. There he finds a reality different from the one he was looking for and went through various concentration camps until, after several attempts, he managed to escape and reach Paris -where he will meet Péret and Lam- to find a way out of his situation, leaving for South America. On the train that takes him to the port of La Havre, he meets Amparo Segarra, a Valencian fleeing Franco's repression, who would become his partner.
They embark to Chile but, given the impossibility of this country to receive more refugees, they divert to the Dominican Republic, where they will settle, now together with Amparo, in the capital, Ciudad Trujillo. There, the artist will become part of the Symphony Orchestra as first violin. In 1941 he met André Breton when interviewing him for the newspaper La Nación. From this meeting a friendship will arise that will last until his death in 1966. In 1944 he publishes the book of stories El hombre verde.
In 1946, only six years after settling in, under the hardening of the Trujillo dictatorship, he refused to sign a letter of adherence to the regime, so they had to leave the country and moved to Guatemala. There he entered as a professor at the School of Plastic Arts, maintaining an intense cultural activity.
At the beginning of the Guatemalan revolution, in 1950, he had to flee the country again, for fear of Stalinist persecution. This time the Granell-Segarra family arrives in Puerto Rico, where the artist will occupy the chair of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities. In these years he published Isla Cofre Mítico -which is tremendously close to the surrealist poetic style- and participated in various collective exhibitions at the Puerto Rican university. Although in Santo Domingo he had collaborated with him on poetry magazines...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape With Armenians - Watercolor Drawing by Henry Ottmann - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape With Armenians is a Watercolor realized by Henry Ottmann in 1946.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner.
Incl...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Erotic Composition - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Composition is a charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
King of the Hearts - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
King of the Hearts is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) w...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
MADELEINE (ORIGINAL GOUCHE)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled top front with studio catalog number on verso. Sheet size 10.7...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Evening Wear, Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in an evening gown. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Archivally matted to 12" x 16".
"Black velvet gown trimmed in net and red poppies. Carson Pirie Scott."
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Design for Women’s Western Wear, Hattie Carnegie
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in Western wear. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Women’s Hat & Coat, Marshall Field & Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in a hat and Marshall Field coat. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Instit...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
