Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Nude of Woman 1946 - Original China Ink Drawing by Tibor Gertler - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman 1946 is an original china ink drawing realized by Tibor Gertler in 1946.
Good conditions, mounted on a brown cardboard passpartout (52.7x38). Image Dimensions: 43x26....
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled, Pastel on Paper, Black Colour by Modern Artist "In Stock"
By Sakti Burman
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sakti Burman
Untitled - 11 x 9 inches ( Unframed Size )
Pastel on Paper , 2012
Born : 1935 Kolkata
Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole N...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
A Fine 1946 Modern Figure Study of a Handsome Young Male Model Wearing a Suit
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1940s, Mid-Century Modern Academic Figure Study Portrait of a Handsome, Seated Male Model Wearing a Suit by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptio...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
The Storm - Original Ink and Watercolor by Henri Espinouze - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The tempest is an original drawing artwork realized by Henri Espinouze (1915-1982).
China ink and watercolor.
Hand-signed on the lower center. With the stamp of the artist's atelie...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Couple - Original China Ink Drawing and Pastel by Maria Lourdey - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is original drawing in china ink realized by Maria Lourdey (1860-1934). The state of preservation is very good and with a trace of time.
Sheet dimension: 17.5 x 17 cm.
Inclu...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Night Noise - Original Ink and Watercolor - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Night Noise is an original China ink and watercolor realized by an artist of the early 20th century.
The little picture is ona yellowed paper, with some spots and stains.
Sigled on...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Rat - Original Pastel by Leo Guida - 1973
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
The Rat is an original drawing in pastels on paper realized by Leo Guida in 1973.
Hand-signed in pencil and dated on the lower right.
The state of preservation is good except for ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Scream - Original Watercolor and Tempera by Helen Vogt - Mid-20th Century
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
The Scream is an original drawing realized by Helen Vogt.
Mixed colored watercolor and tempera.
The state of preservation is very good.
The artwork represents a woman with an aut...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Studies for a Female Standing Nude - Pencil Drawing by D. Ginsbourg - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
Studies for a Female Standing Nude is an original artwork realized by the french artist Ginsbourg in 1918.
Original red pencil and pencil on paper.
Hand-...
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1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Couple - Original Drawing in Watercolor - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is an original drawing in watercolor realized by an Anonymous french artist of the XX century.
Very good conditions.
The artworks represent a couple embracing each other thr...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Original Pastel on Paper by Herta Hausmann - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original pastel drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by Herta Haussmann (1892-1972).
Not signed.
The state of preservation is very good.
Stamp of the artist's ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Showgirl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor on paper by Ruth Adele Mysel of a beautiful showgirl. Signed lower right. Circa 1940 to 1950. Ruth Adele Mysel was raised in Boston and attended the Ne...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$275 Sale Price
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Landscape - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor and on paper by Gérard Guyomard
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor and China ink on paper realized by the French contemporary artist Gérard Guyomard.
Hand-signed on the l...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
The Meeting - Original Pen and Watercolor- by Gustave Bourgogne - 1933
Located in Roma, IT
The Meeting is an original drawing in pen and watercolor realized in 1933 by Gustave Bourgogne (1888-1968).
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower center.
The artwork re...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Interior Scene with Figures
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interior Scene with Figures
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed with the Estate stamp lower center
Condition: Loss upper right corner; two small tears lower margin
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman - Original Drawing in Watercolor and China Ink - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in watercolor and China ink, realized in 1996 by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, Hand-signed and dated on the lower right, the firm is not readabl...
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1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Whispers Had Changed - Figurative Portrait Watercolor Graphite Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Russian Judaica Shtetl Klezmer Musicians
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel or Tempera on paper. Judaica Shtetl scene of village.
Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins.
h...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Tempera
Transport of Dead Christ - Pencil Drawing by A. Gros - Late 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Transport of Dead Christ is a drawing realized by the French painter Lucien Alphonse Gros (1855-1913) in the late 19th century. The state of preservation i...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
A Distinctive, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist Figure Study by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Distinctive, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist Figure Study by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A visually striking charcoal composite study of three figures, ex...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Modernist Conte Crayon Drawing Beach Scene David Burliuk Russian Futurist
Located in Surfside, FL
David Burliuk (Ukrainian, 1882-1967)
Three figure on the beach (Hamptons, Long Island New York)
Conte crayon drawing on paper.
Hand signed lower left.
Unframed
Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions
David Davidovich Burliuk (Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; 1882-1967) was a Russian poet, artist and publicist of Ukrainian origin associated with the Futurist and Neo-Primitivist movements. Burliuk has been described as "the father of Russian Futurism."
David Burliuk was born on 21 July 1882 in the village of Riabushky (near Lebedyn, Ukraine) in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. Burliuk's family was artistically inclined; two of his brothers were talented artists as well, Nikolai and Volodimir Burliuk. The Burliuk family partly descended from Ukrainian Cossacks on their father's side, who held premier positions in the Hetmanate. His mother, Ludmyla Mikhnevich, was of ethnic Belarusian descent.
From 1898 to 1904, he studied at Kazan and Odesa art schools, as well as at the Royal Academy in Munich. His exuberant, extroverted character was recognized by Anton Azhbe, his professor at the Munich Academy, who called Burliuk a "wonderful wild steppe horse". During a time of significant industrialization and political change, movements such as the famed Der Blaue Reiter, a group Burliuk associated with in 1912, while he was in Munich, emphasized a shift away from the classical styles of the past, prioritizing the innovations of the future.
In 1907, he made contact with the Russian art world; he met and befriended Mikhail Larionov, and they are both credited as being major forces in bringing together the contemporary art world. In 1908, an exhibition with the group Zveno ("The Link") in Kiev was organized by David Burliuk together with Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Alexander Bogomazov, his brother Volodymyr (Wladimir) Burliuk and Aleksandra Exter. The exhibition was a flop, especially because they were all unknown painters. The Burliuks and Larionov left for the aforementioned brothers' home in Chernianka, also known as Hylea; it was during this stay that their work became more Avant-Garde. That autumn, while visiting Ekster, they organized an exhibition which took place in the street; it was a success, and enough money was raised to go to Moscow.
In 1909, Burliuk painted a portrait of his future wife, Marussia, on a background of flowers and rocks...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Crayon
Two in the supermarket. 2023, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Two in the supermarket
2023, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm
Ansis Butnors (1977)
Education:
J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996.
Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department ...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
An Intimate 1930s Modern Charcoal Study of a Seated Young Male at a Lake House
Located in Chicago, IL
An Intimate, 1930s Modern Charcoal Study of a Seated Young Male Figure by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Most likely completed circa 1932 at a summer lake ho...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Original Drawing Young Women Ink & Acrylic on paper by Devie
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered.
Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Grace Martin Taylor (Frame), (Town View), 1930, pastel, signed
Located in New York, NY
West Virginia native Grace Martin Taylor, artist for the brightly colored pastel (TownView), attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art S...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
A Stylized, Modern 1930s Art Deco Drawing of Two Young Men Planting a Tree
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stylized, 1930s Art Deco Pastel Landscape Drawing of Two Young Men Planting a Tree by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 9 x 12 inches, u...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
"Steel Factory" Cuban Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing WPA Latin Art Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Steel Factory" Cuban Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing WPA Latin Art Industrial
Ink on paper. 12 x 19 inches. Pogolotti lived in Paris in the 1930s. The drawing here comes from the collection of his Parisian ophthalmologist, Dr. Prokopenko . Unfortunately, the artist lost his eyesight in 1938.
Marcelo Pogolotti (1902–1988) was a Cuban painter...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Petite Fille
Located in New York, NY
Signed and inscribed, lower center: Joseph / Ramanankamonjy / Madagascar / Petite fille / “aquarelle sur soie”
Provenance:
Private Collection, Paris
Private Collection, Florida
Som...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silk, Watercolor
Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway.
Boris Aronson (1898 – 1980) "Day and Night," 17 ½ x 13 inches. Gouache ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Young man in a toga elegant man Latin American hyperrealist Hockney style
Located in Norwich, GB
Superb original drawing in coloured conté pencils, heightened with white on oatmeal coloured vergé paper by Claudio Bravo. The work was created during the artist's Moroccan period, a...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Laid Paper, Color Pencil
"Chorus Girl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a chorus or show girl by Ruth Adele Mysel. Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New England School of Art. She was both a artist and sculptor as well as ...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$275 Sale Price
35% Off
Lovely Country House Pastel, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Pastel on paper
Sight: 21 1/2 x 31 in.
Framed: 24 1/4 x 34 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower left
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled, Figurative, Pastel on Paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury : Untitled
Pastel on Envelop ; 7 x 5 inches ; 2016
Signed by the Artist.
Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury ha...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$1,148 Sale Price
20% Off
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
Located in New York, NY
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
This drawing was published in the 1976 edition of William Saroyan's SONS ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
Birds - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Birds is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in mid 20th century.
Charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Signed by the artist.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-R...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Ancient City - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient City is a drawing realized in the Early 20th Century by an unknown french master.
Pencil on paper.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes mast...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Girlish - Drawing Hubert Yencesse - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
The Girlish is a drawing realized by Hubert Yencesse in 1955.
Pencil on paper.
Good condition.
Beautiful drawing with soft pencil strokes.
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sven Berlin watercolour drawing of a maiden head, British, Mid Century artist
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Maiden head
Mixed media
5.3/4 x 3.5/8 in. (14.7 x 9.3 cm.)
Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th September 1911...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media
Paris : The Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre - Original Handsigned Painting
Located in Paris, IDF
Gabriel Paris
The Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, 1959
Original gouache painting
Handsigned and dated
On Arches vellum 64 x 50 cm (c. 25.1 x 19.6 in...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Charcoal Drawing "Waiting" Pensive Woman Americana WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
14x11.5 image size , 22.5x17.5 backing size
The New-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was ac...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Sketch After Vincent Self Portrait No. 3
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition Man of Extremes at Benjaman Gallery in Buffalo, NY.
Westley G. Olmsted (1934-2011) was a painter and sculptor. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and was a distant relative Frederick Law Olmsted...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Posing Figure - Drawing - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Figure is a drawing realized in 1978 by an unknown artist.
Penc on paper.
Monogrammed and dated on the lower.
The state of preservation is good.
The artwork is represented...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Reclining nude, female figure pastel drawing on oversize black paper, colorful
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently re-discovered 1984 oversize pastels on archival papers were created working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the last existing obs...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Dessin préparatoire
By Roger Capron
Located in PARIS, FR
Preparatory pencil and acrylic drawing on kraft paper measuring 133 x 77 cm for a ceramic fresco
Pièce Unique
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil
Soviet Union socialist irrigation Bulgarian propaganda poster design
Located in London, GB
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Soviet Union socialist irrigation Bulgarian propaganda poster design (circa 1950s)
Gouache on board
18 x 11 cm
After a Communist takeover in 1945, Bulgaria was a Soviet ally during the Cold War, and maintained good relationships with Russia until the Revolutions of 1989. From 1945 to 1948, the country became entrenched within the Soviet sphere of influence under the control of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) which oversaw a program of Stalinization in the late 1940s and 1950s. Both countries are Slavic nations, and are bound together by a common Orthodox Christian...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Board
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed ea...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Study for Worlds Beyond - Surrealist graphite drawing, Ohio artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Study for Worlds Beyond, 1980
Graphite, collage and white heightening on illustration board
Signed and dated lower right
10.75 x 4.5 in...
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1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
A Fabulous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Standing Female Nude Figure Study
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Standing Female Nude Figure Study by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork Size: 18 x 12, unframed, mounted / floated t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Tantra & Underwater series, Ink & Water Color, Blue, Black, Brown "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 23 x 16.5 inches (unframed size)
Ink & Watercolor on paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
In the mid sixties again he explored diverse cults of popular ritual for pictorial ingredients of an
evocative mystic symbolism. An ink-and-wash of 1965 features a figurative image of ambiguous
connotation. The motif looks like a cult image worshipped by people practising primitive religion. A
squat but monumental figure, it has for each hand several reptilians snaking down from shoulder
to the finger-tips, for legs a pair of beastly fore-paws and its dark oval totemic frame...
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1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Mid Century St. Ives artist Sven Berlin 'A lover's embrace' pen and ink on paper
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
A Lovers embrace
Pen and ink
Signed 'SVEN 95' (lower right)
11 x 7.7/8 in. (20 x 28 cm.)
Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th September 1...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Seated Woman and Bull Figure, Modern Drawing by Jose Ortega
By José Ortega
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jose Ortega, Spanish (1921 - 1991)
Title: Seated Woman and Bull Figure
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor on BFK Rives, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 20 x 25...
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1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled, Horse and Wagon Pastel Drawing Shtetl Judaica Scene Polish Jewish Life
Located in Surfside, FL
Simon Karczmar, Polish (1903 - 1982)
Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1903, Simon Karczmar studied art in Paris, where he lived for twenty years. Although he left France for Israel in 1962, most of his work evokes his experiences in Eastern Europe.
Immigrated to Israel 1962 and joined Artists' Quarter in Safed.
Represented Israel at exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, U.S.A. and Europe.
In this series of images known collectively as Shtetl, Karczmar draws inspiration from his childhood memories of the vacations he spent at his grandfather's house in Lithuania. The word shtetl is Yiddish for little town and refers to the villages with significant Jewish populations that could once be found throughout Eastern Europe.
The nostalgia of Karczmar's renderings contrasts with the darker views of life for Jews revealed in the photographs by Roman Vishniac and drawings of Ephraim Moshe Lilien...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
Moonlight, oversize drawing of contemplative young woman, monochromatic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work was intentionally torn and mended along the curve through the center of the work. It predates the artist's full immersion, years later into torn and re-pasted collages, us...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model (Back)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Charming 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait Study of Two Men Wearing Sunglasses
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist Portrait Study of Two Men Wearing Sunglasses by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A visually striking vintage charco...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Drawing - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Drawing is a pencil drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mountains - Original Drawing by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Mountains is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988) in 1944.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of preservatio...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Young Male Nude Model (Torso)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Young Male Nude Model (Torso, Shoulder & Arm) by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early charcoal ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Figures - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Figures is a drawing artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara artist in early 20th century
Pencil and china ink on paper
Good condition.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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Modern figurative drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern figurative drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, yellow, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mino Maccari, Flor David, Gabriele Galantara, and Alberto Ziveri. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Watercolor and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern figurative drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 0.25 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $648,500, while the average work sells for $409.