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Period: Mid-20th Century
Untitled (Renaissance Female 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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Male 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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Rue des Fossés, Saint Valery
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie. Francien Ledieu had three exhibitions at La Capitale Gallery in 2001, 2004, and 2007. She also showed her paintings at L’Oeil du Huit in 2011, 2013, 2016 & 2019. She participated in many group exhibitions as at Strasbourg Contemporary Art Fair in 2005. She exhibited also at Réalités Nouvelles in 2006, 2007, 2010 & 2011. She also worked in stained glass and mosaics in France. She achieved artworks in 1963 at Saint-Henri Pontoise chapel, Saint-Pierre des Louvrais church in Pontoise in 1969 & Mosaic in the same year at Jean Moulin...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, 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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female 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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Renaissance Female 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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Female and Male 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...
Category
Modern 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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Female 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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Female 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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Renaissance Hand 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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Quick Change
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quick Change
Watercolor on paper, 1930-1931
Signed lower right: Honore Guilbeau
Illustrated in American Art Review, August 2014, page 84 in an article by Dr. M...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
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...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Woman with child
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with child
Watercolor on paper, c. 1930
Signed with the estate stamp lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Marbella Gallery, New York
Illustrated: Robert Hallowell: An Artist Redi...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a Colored lithograph realized by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca.
French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director.
Not signed. Very Go...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
In this line abstract by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), lines intersect and layer in straight and rounded ways giving a sense of movement to the piece. O'Day uses simple ink on paper and pure geometric form in the Minimalist style of the 1960s.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 39"H x 27"W
Paper size: 30"H x 20"W
Image size: 27"H x 16"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Infighting, Ink Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Framed
By Samuel Rabin
Located in London, GB
Ink on lined paper
Image size: 3 x 2 3/4 inches (8 x 7 cm)
Hand made frame
Sam Rabin
Samuel (Sam) Rabin, originally Samuel Rabinovitch, was an English sculptor, artist, teacher, singer, wrestler and Olympic bronze medallist. Rabin, who was Jewish, was born Samuel Rabinovitch on 20 June 1903 at Dewhurst Street, Cheetham, North Manchester. His parents were both Russian Jewish exiles from Vitebsk (now in Belarus).
During his childhood, the family moved to Salford where Rabin grew up and where his parents encouraged his talent for drawing. In 1914 Rabin won a scholarship to the Manchester Municipal School of Art making him, at the age of 11, the youngest pupil ever to attend the college. There he was taught drawing by French artist Adolphe Valette. In 1921 he moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he continued his studies under Henry Tonks until 1924. After the Slade, Rabin studied in Paris where he met and was greatly impressed and influenced by sculptor Charles Despiau.
Rabin's own sculpture from this time is little known as he was a perfectionist and destroyed work that he considered unsatisfactory. In 1928, working under his full surname, he was commissioned by architect Charles Holden to carve West Wind, one of eight personifications of the four winds for the headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London at 55 Broadway. The sculpture was partly completed in-situ on the building. In 1930, he produced his only other public sculptures; two decorative winged masks, The Past and The Future, for the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. These were carved on the building directly from the scaffold.
Both commissions were well received at the time, but Rabin was unable to make a living as a sculptor and turned to another career – wrestling, for which he abbreviated his surname. Rabin was physically strong and had boxed and wrestled as an amateur to fund his art. He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division of the free-style wrestling at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Rabin turned professional in 1932 and fought as Rabin the Cat and Sam Radnor the Heb. Alexander Korda cast him as a wrestler in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933 and as Mendoza, a Jewish prize-fighter, in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1934. Despite lacking any formal musical training, Rabin was a talented baritone and worked professionally during the 1940s singing with Stars in Battledress and sang operatic arias with the army's Classical Music Group. In 1946 he auditioned for La Scala's conductor, Victor de Sabata.
In 1949, Rabin began teaching drawing at Goldsmith's College of Art in New Cross, London. His disciplined teaching style including the production of demonstration works, followed that of his own teacher, Valette. His students included Mary Quant, Bridget Riley and Tom Keating...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Portrait of a Woman by Orovida Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Woman by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Egg tempera on silk laid down on stretched linen
47.6 x 37 cm (18 ³/₄ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right, OROVIDA 1936
Provenance: Christie's London, 1985
Kunstgalerij De Vuyst, Belgium
Private collection, London
Private collection, London, by descent
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera
1940s Fashion Study for Perfume Advertisement at Marshall Field & Company
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring an Elizabeth Arden advertisement for Marshall Field & Company. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the S...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"The Secretary" Minimalist Portrait in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Secretary" Minimalist Illustrative Portrait in Ink on Paper
This charming portrait by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), depicts a tight-lipped woman with stern eyebrows in a fun and simplistic style. Her lips pop in red and the fine line detail of her hair gives texture and movement to the piece. Her rounded figure is created using basic shapes cleverly placed, dressed in a turtleneck with dangling earrings. She is looking sideways, drawing the viewer's eyes in that direction.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Presented in a new blue mat.
Mat size: 32"H x 26"W
Paper size: 28.5"H x 22.5"W
Image size: 15.5"H x 11.5"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Israeli Judaica Watercolor Gouache Bar Mitzvah Boy Rabbi Painting Russian Artist
By Ben Zion Magal
Located in Surfside, FL
Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999)
Ben Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy. He arrived to Erertz Israel together with hi...
Category
Neo-Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Home in the Desert - Painting by Mario Asnago - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Home in the desert is an artwork realized by Mario Asnago (Barlassina, 25 March 1896 – Monza, 28 January 1981).
Oil paiting on canvas.
107 x 85 cm; framed.
Hand signed in the lo...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage 3 Figurative Nudes in Conté Crayon on Paper (1946) by Matté
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage 3 Figurative Nudes in Conté Crayon on Paper (1946) Matté
In an indigo blue and burnt orange color palette by French artist Matté (French, 20t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Whitehall Building, July 1939 - Harbor Seascape with Tugboat in Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Whitehall Building, July 1939 - Harbor Seascape with Tugboat in Watercolor
Detailed harbor landscape by Ernest Clegg (British, 1976-1954). The Whitehall Building towers over the sce...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Original French Art Deco Gouache Illustration Drawing by J. Hilly
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original Art Deco illustration hand-painted with ink and gouache on paper. The drawing features two elegant women with large windows and drapery in the background. This illustrati...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Jonas by Marc Chagall - School of Paris, Russian Artist
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
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Jonas by Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Indian ink on paper
35.6 x 26.9 cm (14 x 10 ⅝ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
"Reclining Nude" Everett Shinn, Figurative Woman Watercolor, Ashcan School
Located in New York, NY
Everett Shinn
Reclining Nude, 1940
Signed and dated lower left
Watercolor on paper
4 1/2 x 9 inches
Provenance:
Christie's New York, Interiors, August 28, 2012, Lot 181
Private Collection
Everett Shinn, a future member of the Eight and remarkable, rather theatrical personality was born at Woodstown, New Jersey in 1873. Even more recent sources give 1876 as the year of Everett Shinn's birth but the artist usually lied about his age to appear younger than he actually was. Edith DeShazo claimed that information from family members established the date of November 6, 1876 as Shinn's birthday. But if this is true, he would have enrolled at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia to study industrial art at the age of twelve. Born to a Quaker named Isaiah Conklin Shinn and Josephine Ransley Shinn, Everett was their third child. He enjoyed a happy childhood as an undisciplined boy fond of sweets, acrobatics, and the circus.
Shinn opted for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for instruction in the fall of 1893, and began as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Press. At that time William Glackens was working there as well, while John Sloan was at the Inquirer. A year later, Glackens was at the Press, and also, in 1894, George Luks joined the staff there. As DeShazo explained, "the Press art department became a meeting place for men both on the staff and off with similar artistic and literary interests." Members of the same group also met at Robert Henri's studio. By 1897, Shinn was in New York, working for the New York World where Luks had been for about a year. The rest of the "Philadelphia Four" would follow them before long.
Shinn spent much of 1898 hounding the offices of Harper's until finally, the editor and publisher, Colonel George Harvey saw his portfolio, then commissioned a view of the Old Metropolitan Opera House in a snowstorm. The pastel appeared about a year later in the February 17th issue of Harper's Weekly, in 1900. Meanwhile, Shinn kept busy with decorative work (murals, screens, and door panels) at private residences and even in Trenton, New Jersey's City Hall. In 1899, the Boussod-Valadon Galleries gave Shinn his first one-man show. He continued to carry out commissions for illustrations. Shinn began exhibiting at the Pennsylvania Academy (1899-1908) and at the Art Institute of Chicago (1903-43).
A trip to Europe is documented in 1900 by an exhibition at Goupil's in Paris and by various drawings of Paris...
Category
Ashcan School Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
