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Rider - Watercolor on Paper by Pierre Laurent Brenot - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rider is a watercolor on paper realized by Pierre Laurent Brenot (1913-1998).
Good conditions, aged.
Passepartout included: 32 x 24.
Here the artwork represents a rider coming forward. vivid colors. The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident and soft strokes in a well-balanced composition and harmonious colors.
Pierre-Laurent Brenot (1913-1998) In 1928, he entered the École Estienne where he attended classes for three years. Then he continued his training as a designer with Fernand Hertenberger. Pierre-Laurent Brenot's gifts of observation and precision in his pencil stroke were immediately noticed.During the fashion years (from 1936 to 1950),he was hired by Monsieur Chatard, a great tailor for men and women, in his Fashionable store, at number 16 boulevard Montmartre. He then created a line of men's suits. On his momentum, he produced numerous fashion designs for other great couturiers (Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Nina Ricci, Jeanne Lafaurie...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mr. Magoo Original Vintage Animation Cel Hand Drawing Painting
By Jules Engel
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1918 in Budapest, Hungary, Engel began his professional career in animation as a color designer at the Walt Disney studio. Although his credits include work on such classics as Disney’s Bambi and Fantasia and UPA’s Gerald McBoing-Boing, he is best known as a mentor to literally hundreds of students.
Engel was also one of the original members of United Productions of America (UPA), where, during the ’50s, he worked on classics such as Mr. Magoo, Gerald McBoing-Boing and Madeline. According to his biographer, Dr. Janeann Dill, Engel has created more than 33 personal films and received five Golden Eagle awards, an Annie Award, a Winsor McCay Award, the Fritz Award, a Jean Vigo Award, and the Norman McLaren...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
The Concert - Mixed Media - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Concert is an original artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed media artwork on paper.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin. Unreadable signature.
Includes a...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Early Street Art - New York Urban Factory Scene - Mid Century - Factory X
By Dong Kingman
Located in Miami, FL
This early work from 1955 by Dong Kingman N.A. is as surreal as it is a document of a place. The artist effectively captures a slice of American urban life but constructs the compo...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s.
He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Renaissance Hand Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Hand Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin Strathmore paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Provenanc...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Forest - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Forest is a drawing realized by an anonymous french artist in the 1950s.
Watercolor on paper.
Good condition.
Poetic and beautiful drawing with harmonious colors.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Ink Illustration of a Shaded Garden View Through a Porch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Illustration of a Shaded Garden View Through a Porch
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink and Paper
Size: 6.25 (height) x 9.5 (width)...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of a Man from the Rif Region
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolour portrait by Finnish artist Hugo Backmansson depicts an Arab man from the Rif region of Morocco. Created during Backmansson’s journey to Morocco in 1939, the work cap...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“After the Hunt”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom left. Circa 1940. ...
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Academic Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Watercolor and Charcoal on Paper Image of a Boy by Margo Hoff, Titled Sun Child
By Margo Hoff
Located in Chicago, IL
A brightly colored, Mid-Century, watercolor and charcoal on paper image of a boy by notable artist Margo Hoff, titled "Sun Child". Image size: 31" x 22". Framed size: 34" x 25". ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Completed in the 1960s, this compelling studio ink drawing is executed in ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A 1950s Pastel & Charcoal on Paper Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for you hockey enthusiast! A 1950s pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9" x 12". Matted size: 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the Artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Mid Century Santa Cruz, California Figurative Vintage Boardwalk Scene, 1944
Located in Soquel, CA
A lively and detailed mid-1940's vintage boardwalk scene of Santa Cruz, California by California artist Cassard (20th Century), 1944. This figurative...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Pin Up Girl in Red Dress, Mid-Century, Female Artist
By Pearl Frush
Located in Miami, FL
The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Mother and Child - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Mother and Child is an original China Ink and Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed check sheed.
Hand-signed by the artist wit...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Boats - Watercolor by French Master - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boats is an original painting in watercolor by an anonymous French artist of the XX century. The state of preservation is good and aged with signs of time on it, with two small holes...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mr. Magoo Original Vintage Animation Cel Hand Drawing Painting
By Jules Engel
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1918 in Budapest, Hungary, Engel began his professional career in animation as a color designer at the Walt Disney studio. Although his credits include work on such classics as Disney’s Bambi...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Chinese Calligraphy and Bamboo - China Ink - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese Calligraphy and Bamboo is a drawing realized in the mid-20th Century.
China Ink on paper.
Good conditions except for small cuts on the margins.
The artworks represent the ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting
Artist Signature - Riley Sunrise (1914-2006) Quoyavema “Another of the earlier Hopi artists, Riley Sunrise (Quoyavema) worked with Fred Kabotie and Waldo Mootzka in illustrating John Louw Nelson’s Rhythm for Rain. He is also known as Quoyavema or Kwayeshva, according to Nelson. His paintings are comparable to Fred Kabotie’s, with some of them showing more action and most of them revealing less detail. Sunrise is represented in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Gilcrease Institute (Tulsa), and the Southwest Museum. The Museum of the American Indian in New York has an extensive collection of his paintings of native Hopi dances.” (Clara Lee Tanner: Southwest Indian...
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Tribal Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene A, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache on board
Signed on the front
Frame included: held in vintage modern frame
Measurements:
Framed:
11 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by .75
Painting
4.5 inches by 6 inches
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn's longtime gallery, the prestigious Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City.
Provenance
Associated American Artists
Frame included: held in vintage frame with original label as provenance
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti -- the subject of this work. It was part of a series inspired by Dehn's visit to Haiti.
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti.
ADLOF DEHN
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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Mid-Century "Green & Blue Nude" Oil Pastel Drawing
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Green and Blue Nude I"
5/1963
Oil pastel on paper
8.5"x11" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Jack Meredith Hooper (August 26, 1...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) La Grille (The Gate), signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950)
La Grille (The Gate)
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
27 x 37 cm
In quite condition: yellowed by time, some stains
Framed: 43 x 53 cm
Paul Emile ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1960s American Pop Art hyperrealist drawing Lucky Strike
Located in Norwich, GB
A striking pop art drawing, dating from the 1960s, featuring lettering and a packet of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Pop art as art movement emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 196...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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...
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Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Renaissance Hand Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Hand Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival 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...
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Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'After School', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, PAFA
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) and painted circa 1935.
This early twentieth-century painter, lithographer, muralist, author, poet and ill...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
William by Raymond Debieve, French Cubist Figurative Painting on Carton
Located in Atlanta, GA
Raymond Debieve (1931-2011)
Born in northern France as a twin to brother Michel Debieve (who also become an accomplished artist later in life), Raymond painted his entire life. His ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
The General - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The General is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Watercolor on paper. On rear: linocut on paper.
Signed by the artist.
Good conditions.
Mi...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Horse - Original China Ink - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is an original drawing in China Ink by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions except for foe some decoloring dots.
The artwork is depicted through confi...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Cat - Drawing by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an Drawing in watercolor realized in the Mid-20th Century by Giselle Halff (1899-1971).
Good conditions.
Hand-Signed.
Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R....
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Stylized Deer in a Birch Forest Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Stylized Deer in a Birch Forest Mixed Media Drawing
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil, Acrylic and Tracing Paper
Size: 10.75 (heigh...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil
A Drawing of a ca. 1930s Bicycle Race by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for your cycling enthusiast! A 1930s charcoal on paper drawing of a bicycle race by artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 11" x 14". Archivally matted to 16" x 20". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Renaissance Hand Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Hand Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good...
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Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Renaissance Male Hand Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Hand Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of I...
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Photorealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
"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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
WPA Mural Study Mid-Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study Mid-Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Workers
Anton Refregier (1905-1979)
Mural Study, Untitled
7 ¾ x 22 inches (sight)
Gouache, pencil, and charcoal on board, c. 1940s
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of Seymour Fogel, noted verso
Thomas McCormick Gallery...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache, Board, Pencil
Mid Century French Original Charcoal Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Charcoal Portrait of a Seated Woman
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Charcoal on artist paper
Size: 24.25 (height) x 19 (width)
...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
"My Fair Lady" 1958 West End Theatre Costume Drawing Mid 20th Century Modern
By Cecil Beaton
Located in New York, NY
"My Fair Lady" 1958 West End Theatre Costume Drawing Mid 20th Century Modern
Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) "My Fair Lady," Pen and ink on paper. ...
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Performance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Expressionist Color Drawing Cobalt Glass Vintage Frame Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of flowers in vase.
Framed in a vintage cobalt blue glass original frame
Hand signed and dated
Framed it measures 13.5 X 10.5
The actual ...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Lovers - Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Charcoal drawings.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Antique Pencil Study of a Classical Female Bust Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Antique Pencil Study
pencil sketch on artist paper
painting: 20.75 x 15 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: good and sound conditio...
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French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
“The Hunters”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of two hunters in the field by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom right. Circa ...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Houses - Original Pencil by Maxime Juan - Mid-20th Century
By Maxime Juan
Located in Roma, IT
Houses is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by Maxime Juan (1900-?). Hand-signed on the lower left.
The State of preservation is good.
The artwork represents houses ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in Charcoal realized in the 20th Century by an anonymous artist. and signed "O. Rosai".
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Still Life - Original Pencil Drawing by Serge Fontinsky - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is an original sketch pencil drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions, minor cosmetic wear.
Hand-signed on the lower...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mid Century French Ink Studies of Study of Female Faces
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Studies of Study of Female Faces
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 7 (height) x 5.75 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condi...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Family Dinner Time 1932 American Classic Interior Design
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic Interior design and Family Dinner by Architectural Digest illustrator David Mode Payne (American, 1907-1985). The scene depicted is an interio...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Mid Century French Elegant Ink Drawing of a Riverside Scene with a Barge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Elegant Ink Drawing of a Riverside Scene with a Barge
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 7.25 (height) x 9.75 (width)
S...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Guardian Cowboy And Horseman The Camargue France Original Framed Pastel Drawing
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Rattenbury Skeaping.
English ( b.1901 - d.1980 ).
Guardian, Cowboy And Horseman Of The Camargue, 1970.
Pastel On Paper.
Signed & Dated Lower Right.
Paper size 15.2 inches x 2...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
A Pastel & Charcoal on Paper Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
For your hockey enthusiast! A ca. 1950s, pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9" x 12". Matted to: 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
“Ski Style 1960”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials bottom right. Circa 1965. ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sir David Muirhead Bone, A Mediterranean evening on a P & O cruise liner
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully evocative scene of a passenger looking out to sea on the deck of an ocean liner - from the golden age of cruising.
Sir David Muirhead Bone
On a P & O, Mediterranean ev...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Est...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
"Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine at Radio City Music Hall"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud Albert Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003)
At the age of 12, Albert Hirschfeld, the famed caricaturist who depicted figures in the New York theater...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin Strathmore paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance:...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Mid Century French Pencil Drawing Sleeping Dog on Checkered Floor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pencil Drawing Sleeping Dog on Checkered Floor
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 3.75 (height) x 6 (width)
Stamped:...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mother and Child - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Mother and Child is an original Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th Century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Mino Maccari (...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Horse and Carriage - Original Charcoal Drawing y N. Czinober - Mid 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Horse and Carriage is a charcoal sketch made by the Hungarian artist Nicolas Czinober in the mid-20th century. The state of preservation is very good. The paper presents some small s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Figures - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Watercolor on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape verso Forest interior / - Landscape as a space of imagination -
Located in Berlin, DE
Herbert Seidel (1906 Berlin - 1974 Rüdersdorf), Landscape verso Forest interior, around 1950. India ink on grained, bleached paper, 40.5 x 58 cm, signed “Herbert Seidel” in pencil on...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Nude - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an ink drawing realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Early-20th Century.
Ink and watercolor.
Good condition.
Hand monogrammed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Sketches - Original Drawing by Unknown - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by an Unknown artist in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
'The Thief from François Villon's Christmas', San Francisco Bay Area Illustrator
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James March Phillips' (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965.
Displayed in an original card mat decorated by the artist. Signed lower right, in pencil, 'J. M. Phillips' and titled, lower left, ''The Thief' - from Francois Villon's Christmas'. Mat dimensions: 16 x 13 inches.
Born in California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Jean Turner Art Academy and, later, under Alfred Owles...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
The Archibald Russell.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Archibald Russell. 1935. Pencil and watercolour on watercolour board. 20 7/8 x 28 5/8. Mat line from a previous mount; otherwise excellent condition. Signed and dated in ink, low...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
"Balanced Rock" in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO.
By Ted Lewy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Balanced Rock" in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Ted Lewy, 1912-1963. It is hand signed at the...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Composition - Drawing by Henry Wormser - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing realized by Henry Wormser in the Mid-20th Century.
Watercolor.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jewish Family
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Jewish Family" 1968 is an acrylic and ink on wove paper by noted Lithuanian artist Boris Deutsch, 1892-1978. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left corner by the...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s.
Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe.
Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area.
In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little.
In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society.
In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
Category
Tribal Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper
