Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Still Life - Watercolor by Sirio Pellegrini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1970s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 60x45
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, o...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Within- 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing of a girl with braids
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni
'Within'
66 x 48 cm
Charcoal and graphite on Rives Arches Paper 175 gm2 crème white
Framed the size is 80 x 60 cm ( Frame is included...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Nightie Night - 5.25" x 9.25", Original Artwork, White, Beige, Framed
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
In this original artwork, focus is placed on the blending of delicate detail and expressive brush work. A tone on tone texture is built up in the background through the use of paint ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Illustration Board
Silhouette - 5"x7", Black Dress, Artwork On Paper, Painting, Gold Detail
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
SILHOUETTE - This artwork on paper captures a sense of understated glamour. The blending of a textile texture and delicate gold detailing around the waist creates a refined and elega...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Kobe", In Memorium, Hand drawn/painted figure featuring Lakers players
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Kobe" is an original contemporary wall-hanging artwork by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art . The two bear faced basketball players wearing Lakers jersey...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint
Chuck
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, signed (lower right), 50cm x 74cm (70cm x 92cm framed). The picture is good condition and the work comes directly from the artist.
Painter, draughtsman and teacher...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Cords, Drawing 2014
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Umbilical, Drawing 2014
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Cocteau Aqua Atla #2235. Photo collage. Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cocteau Aqua Atla, #2235 by Natasha Zupan
Photo Collage
Image size: 43 in. H x 34 in. W
Frame size: 51.5 in H x 40.5 in W x 2 in D
White wood frame
Signed lower right on recto by th...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper, Color
Five at the Rail, View of Racetrack and Crowd, Saratoga Springs, New York
By Anne Diggory
Located in New York, NY
Anne Diggory (b. 1951)
Five at the Rail, Saratoga Springs Racecourse, New York, circa 1978
Watercolor on paper
4 3/4 x 6 inches
Initialed lower right: Dig...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Duchándome, June 5th, Watercolor Nude, Pastel and Ink on Archival Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Duchándome June 5th" by Celso Castro-Daza
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor, pastel, and ink on archival paper
Sheet size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
2018
Drawing on paper is hi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mock Practice, Figurative, Japanese Ink on paper by Contemporary Indian Artist
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
A set of four works 15 x 11 each (unframed size)
Prasanta Sahu - Mock Practice
Japanese ink on acid free paper
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style :
Commingling pictures and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Day in the Countryside - Watercolor on Paper by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper by Sirio Pellegrini in 1969. Hand signed and dated.
Drawing made up of several fragments joined together.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame 97x89 cm.
Sirio ...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Contemporary Art by Liubov Juravliova - Fille
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour, ink on paper
Liubov Juravliova is a French painter born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1963 who lives and works in Argenteuil, near Paris, France She has been listed at Drouot...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Radiant Beauty by Judith Williams black and white nude on paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
"The unusual shapes coming together in their raw simplistic form, how they interact with each other, the shapes creating their own language. I let them stand alone in their purest fo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media
Nude II by Jacques Nestle Petite, blue and white modern nude painting on paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
It's All In The Bag, 3 Original Artworks On Paper, 8"x10" Each, Figurative Women
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
IT'S ALL IN THE BAG - This set of three original pencil artworks on heavy textured paper features streamlined compositions with an emphasis on the bag. The blend of detailed and expr...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
China Drawing by Alfredo Chiappori - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
China Drawing is an original drawing in china ink realized by Alfredo Chiappori (17/05/1977).
The artwork is in very good conditions on white cardboard, on the back, there is the ar...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Pensive Nude - Watercolor by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed lower left, it included a pink wooden frame realized by the artist.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
German Lesson (two separate unique watercolor gouaches, each hand signed) Framed
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Allen
German Lesson, 1981
Two separate mixed media works framed together: watercolor, gouache, ink, wash, laid paper collage (each signed by hand)
Signed twice: each of the s...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Keith Haring, Untitled (Black ink drawing atop a Japanese Guardian Figure print)
By Keith Haring
Located in San Francisco, CA
In February 1983, Keith Haring made his first visit to Japan to host an exhibition of his work in Tokyo. Enthralled by the experience, he let loose his spray cans covering every inch...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled (Jazz Scene) - Charlie Mackesy, Original Pastel, Musician, Instruments
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Untitled (Jazz Scene) is an original Charcoal & pastel drawing on paper by British artist Charlie Mackesy. Mackesy's clever work and style here give us a glimpse into this intimate &...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Promontories, On the Ground Triptych by Yann Bagot - Contemporary ink drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Promontories, On the Ground Triptych are India ink and salt on paper drawings by the French contemporary artist Yann Bagot, dimensions are 420 × 600 cm (165.4 × 236.2 in).
The artwo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Locating Your Epiglottis
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Locating Your Epiglottis, mixed media collage, 15 x 10 inches (Framed size: 20.5 x 17 inches), $700
Trent Alvey is known as a mixed-media artist who uses painting, sculpture, light ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Out of the Sun (Under the Racetrack Grandstand), Saratoga Springs, Anne Diggory
By Anne Diggory
Located in New York, NY
Anne Diggory (b. 1951)
Out of the Sun (Under the Racetrack Grandstand), 1978
Watercolor on paper
7 x 10 inches
Signed and dated lower left
Provenance:
Ac...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Queen and Horse, Large Mixed Media by Michael Platt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A mixed media drawing by Michael Platt from 1981. A representational image of a figure in a cool, subdued color pallet. Platt creates artwork that centers on figurative explorations ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Infinite Self, Painting 2009
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Revery (Original Pastel Drawing)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A wonderfully accomplished pastel of a woman lost in thought, with a subtle sensuality about it. She has not been idealized into a classical trope, but is a real person, we can tell....
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Untitled (Backs) - Vintage Polaroid Inspired Drawing of Two Boys at the Beach
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
This untitled work by Rick Sindt is a small graphite drawing of two male figures with their backs to the viewer. Their focus is something out of our viewin...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Panel, Graphite
Ink Drawing by Alfredo Chiappori - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
China Ink Drawing is an original drawing realized by Alfredo Chiappori (1/9/1977).
The artwork is in very good conditions on a white cardboard, on the back there is the archive stam...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
In Isolation Series VII
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This architectural wall-hanging artwork titled "In Isolation Series VII" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of collage, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. This p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Sketch - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is a black market drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a little sheet of notebook.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born ...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
The viewer 2022. Paper/mixed media, 19.3x14.8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The viewer
2022. Paper/mixed media, 19.3x14.8 cm
Liga Kalnina
Artist Liga Kalnina(1990) is born in Riga, Latvia.
Her artist interests is mainly realistically based -landscapes, ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
Nude under the Tree - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel and watercolor on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 157.5x113.5.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in R...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Oil Pastel
At the Seaside - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel and watercolor on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 157.5x113.5.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on Mar...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Oil Pastel
Fishermen at the Nets - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Tempera and watercolor on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1970.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childhood years...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor, Cardboard
Reclined Nude - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and oil pastel on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 44x34.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome ...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel
Mary Knowland, Seated, Original Nude Drawing, Figurative Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Mary Knowland
Seated
Original Nude Drawing
Willow Stick and Ink Wash on Paper
Image Size: H 51cm x W 30cm
Mounted Size: H 71cm x W 48cm x D 0.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Tolomashvili - Untitled 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on Bristol paper + frame
Nino Tolomashvili is a Georgian painter born in 2003 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. After completing her schooling, she pursued her studies at...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Paper
Timeless Beauty by Judith Williams black and white nude on paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
"The unusual shapes coming together in their raw simplistic form, how they interact with each other, the shapes creating their own language. I let them stand alone in their purest fo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media
"Fear Not; Only Believe" Watercolor & Gouache on paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fear Not; Only Believe" is an original watercolor and gouache painting by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and dated the artwork lower right. It depicts two people walking through...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Woman at Rest, Nude Female, Pastel and Charcoal Drawing on Green Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
The loose style of this drawing comes together quickly to convey the relaxed state of this nude female. The pastel accents bring a beautiful warmth to this drawing.
Christopher Ganz
Woman at Rest, 2013
pastel and charcoal on green paper
23h x 18w in
58.42h x 45.72w cm
CG0062
-ARTIST STATEMENT-
I depict my person in multiplicity with different selves representing dramatis
personae. My likeness is both implicit and symbolic in the portrayal of my
narrative; the drama involved in creating art and the artist’s role in society. I
use realism to invite the viewer into mysterious inner worlds that are layered
reflections of the outer. Dehumanizing environments are imbued with art
historical references as a critique of power structures. The artist is an
Everyman who is at odds with society and his self.
Visually my work is a celebration of society’s dark undercurrents and its
overlooked absurdities. I use charcoal and printmaking media as their
tenebrous values add a fitting metaphor. The nuances of light and shadow
seduce viewers into a world their better judgment would have them avoid.
This provokes a sense of disquietude that causes viewers to assess our world
through the austerity of a colorless, yet not humorless, light.
-BIO-
Christopher Ganz grew up in Northeast Ohio and from early on had a fertile imagination and an interest in art. Christopher's artistic education truly began at the University of Missouri, where his love of the human form led to many figure drawing classes and his exposure to the wonders of printmaking. Christopher's then went onto graduate school at Indiana University and a summer abroad program in Italy was a dream realized. Christopher then grasped charcoal with a renewed vigor and large, sfumato-laden drawings ensued. Christopher's artistic influences are many; from a seminal exposure to Dore's engravings of the Divine Comedy, to Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, and up to Lucian Freud, Mark Tansey...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
"The Dream" by Anna Pennati - acrylic and oil pastel on paper
Located in Milano, MI
Inspired by George Byrons's poem "The Dream"
Exhibited in Milan (Italy) in 2005.
Exclusively on 1stdibs
Original hand made
measures are referred to the painting. Passepartout is 50x...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic
Light Envelope with Tape, realist watercolor and pencil still life, 2016
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass explores the fragility of communication, and people’s natural drive to find narrative in even the most ordinary of objects. In her Envelopes series, Glass works in water...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Lounging II - Figurative Watercolor Nude Portrait Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ama Liyanage, a contemporary artist and printmaker, creates whimsical paintings from her home studio in Ontario, Canada. Each piece holds minuscule painted details waiting to be disc...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jairo- Portrait. Watercolor and ink on archival paper drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jairo, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza
Watercolor and ink on archival paper
Image size: 53 H in. x 36 in. W
Unframed
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
"Kobe", In Memorium, Hand drawn/painted figure featuring Lakers players
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Kobe" is an original contemporary wall-hanging artwork by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art . The two bear faced basketball players wearing Lakers jersey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint
The Dressing Room #4, 5"x7", Artwork On Paper, Leopard Print Dress Painting
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This delicate leopard print dress is an artwork on paper blending paint, pencil and color pencil. Composition, intuitive mark-making and loose textured detail make for an outcome bot...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Korean Contemporary Art by Shin Seung-Hun - Healing Greenland, Chunja-Go
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics, oil pastel on canvas
Shin Seung-Hun is a South-Korean artist born in 1979 who lives & works in Jeju Island, Korea. He is considered by critics as the new Korean Takashi Mu...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
"House Studies Series VI", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architectural
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper and drawing collage titled "House Studies Series VI" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. Through a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Back View
Located in Deddington, GB
Daniel Ludwig is an American figurative artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Berkley. His original piece of artwork pictured above is called 'Back View' and this work of ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Evocation" Drawing, Ink and Colored Pencils
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Pencil, Petal Flowers, Color and Ink on Paper. The base of this drawing is 120g/m2 Fabriano paper. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree bark as the first drawing ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
Little Deer, work on paper by Rick Bartow, red, white, pink, blue, black, green
By Rick Bartow
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Little Deer, work on paper by Rick Bartow, red, white, pink, blue, black, green,
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Wolf Moon
Located in Chicago, IL
Born in Hollywood and raised in the urban sprawls of Los Angeles, Julio’s artistic aesthetic was shaped early on by the platinum light and expansive concrete horizons of southern Cal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Rag Paper, Ink
Nocturne in C- sharp Minor- 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing, Nude
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni (Italian artist)
Nocturne in C- sharp Minor
65 x 50 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass)
Measurement with included frame: 80 x 65 x 3 cm
Charcoal on Paper
Th...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - In the Field
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache, pastel & oil on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi St...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil, Gouache
Drawing, Pastel, Ink and Colored Pencils. "Forest Inhabitants"
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Pastel, Pencil, Petal Flowers, Color and Ink on Paper.
The base of this drawing is 120g/m2 Fabriano paper. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree bark as the first...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Twelve Miles to Go, " Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Twelve Miles To Go" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a lone figure walking through...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Dancers at the Bar 6
By Michael Costello
Located in Buffalo, NY
Boxers, Ballerinas and Bible Stories “ are a suite of drawings wherein one model plays a series of interactive roles with his or her self. Contemporary graphic novels and the Pop cul...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Paper
Preisung der Unzucht II
By Felix Waske
Located in Wien, 9
Signed, dated and titled lower left.
Felix Waske was born in Vienna in 1942. From 1958 to 1967, he studied at the University of Applied Arts under Prof Eduard Bäumer and at the Acad...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Canadian Contemporary Art by Christian Frederiksen - Medusa 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on paper
Christian Frederiksen is a Georgian artist born in 1989 who lives and works in Calgary, Canada. He loves to experiment with...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Card Players - Drawing by Roberto Cuccaro - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Card Players is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 21st Century by Roberto Cuccaro.
Original Oil Painting on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower margin: Cuccaro.
Mi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Female Figure - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figure is an original artwork realized in the 1970s by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original drawings in china ink .
Good conditions except for...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Green Oracle" by Anna Pennati
Located in Milano, MI
This artwork is part of the series that Anna Pennati has dedicated to Homer's Odyssey, a subject very dear to her and one that she has tackled several times in the past.
In particul...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Suppose
Located in Buffalo, NY
This large scale charcoal on paper is from the artist's series "These fragile truths".
This body of work explores the limitations and aesthetics of human memory through portraitu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Spurious
Located in Buffalo, NY
This large scale charcoal on paper is from the artist's series "These fragile truths". This body of work explores the limitations and aesthetics of human memory through portraiture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Specious
Located in Buffalo, NY
This large scale charcoal on paper is from the artist's series "These fragile truths". This body of work explores the limitations and aesthetics of human memory through portraiture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Rose Tattoo, Original Drawing by Luis Jimenez
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rose Tattoo
Luis Alfonso Jimenez 1940-2006
Color pencil on Arches paper
22 x 30.25 inches
Provenance: The original drawing was owned by Rozanne Charington, companion and model for "Rodeo Queen", "Rose Tattoo" and "Jimenez at Adeliza's Candy Store".
An original Drawing by Luis Jimenez, 1983, 22 x 30.25 inches. A stone lithograph edition was made from this drawing. There was a PBS documentary showing Jimenez drawing on the stone with the drawing in front of him and the making of the lithograph with Sette Publishing.
Luis Alfonso Jimenez
Born, 1940, El Paso, Texas, died 2006, Hondo, New Mexico.
Statement: Luis Jimenez, in his work, celebrates the vitality of life. . . . Jimenez es un hijo de la frontera; he knows its people and the landscape. It is the transformation of these people into art that is his most important contribution to the art of this vast region which stretches between Mexico and the United States.
His subject matter utilizes the popular images of the cultura del norte, and a large part of it is depicted and transformed in the rough and tumble world of la frontera. He is also a son of el norte, and so he uses its materials and explores its emerging, popular myths. The tension and attraction of Jimnez’s work is that he always creates within the space of his two worlds, the Mexicano and the Americano. He constantly shows us the irony of the two forces which repel, while showing us glimpses of the synthesis he seeks. What a gift it has been to us for this talented artist to reflect on the soul of our region. He gives meaning to our existence and history.
Rudolfo Anaya (passage chosen by the artist), A View from La Frontera, Man on Fire: Luis Jimnez, pp. 1, 3, 6Biography: Luis Jimnez was born in Texas to parents who had emigrated from Mexico to the United States; he would later dedicate his 1989 sculpture Border Crossing to his father, who had entered the country illegally. The elder Jimnez was a neon sign designer in El Paso, and Luis worked with him as a youth. His experience working in the neon shop and his fascination with U.S. car culture would both become major influences on his art career.
Jimenez studied architecture at the University of Texas, Austin (UTA), and also took art courses in which he first created sculptures with wood, steel, and fiberglass, choosing the latter because of its association with U.S. popular culture. He subsequently became one of the artists who made fiberglass an acceptable medium in the 1960s. In 1964 Jimenez received his B.S. in art from UTA, and he continued his studies at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico in Mexico City.
In 1966 he moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to sculptor Seymour Lipton. Jimnez began to exhibit his art while in New York and in 1972 moved to New Mexico to focus on creating public sculptures, even as he maintained his diverse output of drawings, prints, and lithographs.
Drawing on his early experiences, Jimnez creates works that come from a border perspective, one that draws upon the hybridity bred by culture clashes. Often socially and politically informed, his works speak not only in regional terms, those germane to the southwestern United States, but to broader, more global issues as well. They exhibit a profoundly Chicano aesthetic and sensibility, one that is informed by Mexican and Mexican American traditions, North American popular culture, Chicano cultural icons, and images and themes unique to the Southwest. Death, sexuality, and the struggle of the common people are frequent themes.
Inspired by authors who write in an autobiographical style, Jimnez creates works that function as personal narrative yet are also able to make statements about culture in more global terms. His use of bold colors and lines, a legacy from his fathers work as a neon sign maker, lends a dynamic sensuality to his work, one that is particularly evident in his monumental fiberglass and acrylic urethane sculptural works
Many of Jimnezs works correspond to scholar Toms Ybarra-Fraustos definition of the Chicano aesthetic of rasquachismo, a lowbrow sensibility that appeals to the working class in that it applies to objects that subvert expressions of the mainstream or dominant culture. Creating art that speaks to the people, Jimnez is able to transform regional and culturally specific myths and symbols into globally recognized and relevant icons.
Exhibitions:
In addition to his personal work, Jimnez has been commissioned for numerous public art projects. In 1999 his sculpture Southwest Piet was designated a National Treasure by First Lady Hillary Clinton.
The many exhibitions featuring his work have included Human Concern/Personal Torment (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1969).
The First International Motorcycle Art Show (Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1973).
Three Texas Artists (Centre Cultural Americaine, USIS, Paris, 1977),
Recent Trends in Collecting (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1982).
Committed to Print (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989)
Printmaking in Texas: The 1980s (Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, 1990.
The Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1991)
Man On Fire: Luis Jimnez (Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM, 1994-95).
47th Annual Purchase Exhibition (American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1995).
Traveling solo exhibition, Working Class Heroes: Images from the Popular Culture (1997-2000).
Jiménez
Collier Gallery has been in continuous operation for over 40 years. Originally located just off Main Street in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, we have moved to Phoenix to accommodate and showcase our large inventory including:
• Original works by Maynard Dixon, Lon Megargee, Ed Mell, Fritz Scholder, Bill Schenck, Bill Lesch, Luis Jimenez, Greg
Singley, Dan Budnik, and other 20th century Western, WPA and Contemporary Southwestern artists.
• The Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee
• Vintage rodeo photography...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Color Pencil
Standing Female Nude, Watercolor & Graphite on Paper in Muted Earth Tones
Located in Chicago, IL
The loose brush strokes and minimal pencil outline convey a sense of ease in this female nude by Eduardo Alvarado. The female is shown in a side view in muted earth tones on pale yellow paper with a water mark all along the right side of the piece. The piece is matted in a heavy mat measuring 16h x 14w inches. This artwork is unframed. Contact gallery for framing request.
EDUARDO ALVARADO
b. Spain, 1972
EDUCATION
1990-95 Licenciado en BB AA
La Facultad de BB AA de la UPV, Bilbao
La Facultad de BB AA de San Fernando, Madrid
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Casa del Libro, Logroño
2016 Casa de Cultura. Miranda de Ebro
2015 Casa de Cultura. Miranda de Ebro
Galería Espiral, Noja
2014 Galerie d´Art Anne Broitman. Biarritz, France
2013 Galería de Arte-Centro Cultural (junto a Vesna Pavlovic). Novi Sad, Serbia
Centro Cultural La Vidriera, Maliaño
The Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts (junto a Vesna Pavlovic). Nis, Serbia
2012 Gallery Seasons (junto a Vesna Pavlovic). Sofia, Bulgaria
Gallery SKC (junto a Vesna Palovic). Belgrado, Serbia
Manos para qué os quiero. Logroño
Galería Espiral. Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Santander
Sala Asociación Artistas de Guipuzcoa (junto a Juan Carlos Cardesín), San Sebastian
2011 Galería Espiral, San Miguel de Meruelo
Galería Jovan Popovic (junto a Vesna Pavlovic). Opovo, Serbia
Galería Veciti Trkac (junto a Vesna Pavlovic). Nis, Serbia
Exit Art Gallery (Fundación Adolfo Dominguez...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Boat - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1975.
Hand signed and dated.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame cm. 49x39.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, o...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
Donna Sdraiata - Pastel by Aurelio Bulzatti - 2009
Located in Roma, IT
Donna Sdraiata is an original drawing realized by the Italian contemporary artist Aurelio Bulzatti in 2009.
The drawing is a unique piece pastel on p...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - In the Field
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache, pastel & oil on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil, Gouache
Jonas Wood 24 Tennis Court Drawings monograph (hand signed, inscribed and dated)
By Jonas Wood
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Wood 24 Tennis Court Drawings book (hand signed, inscribed to Kevin and dated by the artist)
Hardback monograph (signed, inscribed and dated 2003)
13 1/2 × 9 1/4 × 2/5 inches
M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Board, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
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