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
Sketch. 1930's, watercolour, pencil on paper, 42x27 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Romans Suta
Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Latvia), died on July 14, 1944 in Tbilisi (Georgia), rehabilitated posthumously.
Painter, graphic artist, decorative and stage designer, art critic and theoretician. Studied at the J. Madernieks' Art Studio (1913), Riga City Art School (1913-1915), and Penza Art School (1915 -1917). A prominent figure and active protagonist of modernist trends in Latvian art. Travels to Berlin and Paris, where he made the acquaintance of A. Ozanfant, Le Corbusier, and others. The influences of Cubism and Constructivism.
A member of the Riga Artists' Group (1920-1924) and the Riga Graphic Artists' Society. Painter of still lifes and figural compositions. After the first experiments in Modernism, he turned to a more realistic manner of representation. The initiator and developer of a national constructive style, especially in interior design; the founder of Baltars creative workshop for porcelain painting (1924-1928); a designer and painter at Kuznetsov...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Rio della Misericordia, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame.
The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy.
The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west:
the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and
the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia .
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp "B"
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent to his son Edward
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
The Dancer - Drawing - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Dancer is a drawing realized by an anonymous in the mid-20th century.
Charcoal drawing on paper.
Written on the lower "EN DEUXIEME"
Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Blanche Grambs, (Young Owl)
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. Although we use the word 'pencil' fo...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Clinton Hill, (Nude #8), 1952, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Femme Cheval
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Miami, FL
Wifredo Lam
“Femme Cheval” 1971
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 in
Signed and dated at the bottom left corner
Provenance:
Gallerry Dobbelhoef, Kessel.
Private Collection, Brussel.
Campo and...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
A Fabulous, 1951 Mid-Century Modern Abstract Portrait of a Man by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, 1951 Mid-Century Modern Abstract Portrait of a Man by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork Size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork is unframed, matted ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Two Friends, Figurative, Watercolour on Paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
By Sakti Burman
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sakti Burman - Two Friends
Watercolour on Paper
26 x 20 inches, 1978
( Framed and delivered )
Born : 1935 Kolkata
Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Moby Dick 4 original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's masterpiece
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning ensemble of fiour original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Whilst sharing the modernist, stylis...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932
Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow)
Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist
Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699
Provenance:
Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame
Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon
Snow in Forest, Mid-Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Snow in the Forest, 1945
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
19 x 23.75 inches
24 x 29 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook C...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1951 Ink on Paper Figure Study of a Conversation by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon depicting a conversation.
Artwork size: 12" x 9 1/2". Archivally matted to 14" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist....
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Chinese Calligraphy and Bamboo - China Ink - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese Calligraphy and Bamboo is a drawing realized in the mid-20th Century.
China Ink on paper.
Good conditions except for small cuts on the margins.
The artworks represent the ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Native Mexican Woman (Cuban Miami artist pastel)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alex (Cuban, b.1949). Indigenous Mexican Woman, 1982. Pastel and charcoal on wove paper, sheet measures 23 x 33 inches. 31.5 x 41 inches framed. Excellen...
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1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s.
He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Forest - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Forest is a drawing realized by an anonymous french artist in the 1950s.
Watercolor on paper.
Good condition.
Poetic and beautiful drawing with harmonious colors.
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
A 1950s Pastel & Charcoal on Paper Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for you hockey enthusiast! A 1950s pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9" x 12". Matted size: 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the Artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
'Abstracted Figure', Sydney, Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Bonorat' and painted circa 1980
An elegant, modernist figural painting and early work by this Sydney-based Mexican artist who studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Mexico City (1982-84) and, subsequently, at the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil (1986).
STUDIES
1982-1984 Painting and Drawing Ateliers – National School of Fine Arts, Mexico City
1985-1986 Artistic Experimentation – Carrillo Hill Museum, Mexico City
1986 Metal Engraving – Museum of Modern Art Sao Paulo Brazil
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Art Gallery of Santos Municipal Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1988 Art Gallery of Porto Alegre Municipal centre, R.S. Brazil
1991 Gallery Casa de la Cultura, Morelia Mexico
1994 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney
1996 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney
1996 Michael Burke Gallery, Brisbane
1997 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney
2019 ‘Golden Trinity’, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney
2019 ‘Continuous Thread, GAFFA Gallery, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1985 Mail Art Network Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto Japan
1987 Banespa Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo Brazil
1988 IV National Contest of Fine Arts, Cubatao Brazil
1992 NCA Gallery, Sydney
1994 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney
1994/5/6 Selected for the “Fisher’s Ghost” Art...
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1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Figures - Original Pencil Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Figures" is an original drawing in tempera on paper glued on ivory-colored cardboard, by an Anonymous Artist of XX Century.
In excellent conditions: as good as new.
Sheet dimension: 41.8 x 58 cm.
This is an original drawing representing two men figures.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Landscape - Drawing by Eliane Diverly - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized in the Early-20th Century.
Pencil and Watercolor.
Good condition.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
A 1940s Fashion Study for Women's Hats
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring women's hats in pink tobes. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
The Parade of Fairground Wrestlers, Modern French School
Located in London, GB
'The Parade of Fairground Wrestlers', India ink on art paper, Modern French School (early 1900s). Traveling shows often held promotional events before opening in local areas to generate enthusiasm for the spectacle. This is an intriguing depiction of the various acts on stage strutting their stuff before an audience of potential customers. On the platform, fairground wrestlers mix with clowns, dancers, a percussionist in bolero hat...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Watercolor and Charcoal on Paper Image of a Boy by Margo Hoff, Titled Sun Child
By Margo Hoff
Located in Chicago, IL
A brightly colored, Mid-Century, watercolor and charcoal on paper image of a boy by notable artist Margo Hoff, titled "Sun Child". Image size: 31" x 22". Framed size: 34" x 25". ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Sir David Muirhead Bone, A Mediterranean evening on a P & O cruise liner
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully evocative scene of a passenger looking out to sea on the deck of an ocean liner - from the golden age of cruising.
Sir David Muirhead Bone
On a P & O, Mediterranean ev...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Figurative Abstraction of Isadora Duncan #7)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Abraham Walkowitz, Untitled (Figurative Abstraction of Isadora Duncan #7), pencil, 1918. Signed and dated in pencil, bottom center. A fine, spon...
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1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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
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Conté, Laid Paper, Color Pencil
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A charming illustration, by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows a woman with a...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Nude - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a modern artwork realized by Reynold Arnould in the 20th Century.
Ink drawing.
Good conditions.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cat - Drawing by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an Drawing in watercolor realized in the Mid-20th Century by Giselle Halff (1899-1971).
Good conditions.
Hand-Signed.
Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"I Think I Will" Modern Oval Drawing of a Nude Woman with Wings and Boots
Located in Houston, TX
Modern oval figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings and cowboy boots by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist next to the figure's right hip. Hung...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Nude of Woman - Original Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the late 19th Century.
In very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 43.5 x ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
“Ski Style 1960”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials bottom right. Circa 1965. ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper
A Pastel & Charcoal on Paper Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
For your hockey enthusiast! A ca. 1950s, pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9" x 12". Matted to: 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Lovers - Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Charcoal drawings.
Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Composition - Drawing by Henry Wormser - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing realized by Henry Wormser in the Mid-20th Century.
Watercolor.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Over Head
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivaled influence on artists and image-making.
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Figure of Man - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Man is a Colored lithograph on japan paper realized by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca.
French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director.
Exc...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
The Archibald Russell.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Archibald Russell. 1935. Pencil and watercolour on watercolour board. 20 7/8 x 28 5/8. Mat line from a previous mount; otherwise excellent condition. Signed and dated in ink, low...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Homme à l'agneau, mangeur de pastèque et flûtiste
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed, dated and numbered “Picasso / 3.2.67 / II” (upper right)
Crayon on paper
Hailed among the fathers of modern art, Pablo Picasso possessed a seemingly e...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Nude - Drawing by Eugène Robert Pougheon - Early 20th Century
By Eugene Robert Pougheon
Located in Roma, IT
Study for Female Nude is a Pencil Drawing realized by Eugène Robert Pougheon (1886-1955).
Good condition on a yellowed paper included a white cardboard passpartout (50.5x35 cm).
Ha...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Landscape - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Ink and Watercolour on Fabric realized by a Chinese Painter in early 20th century.
Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (19x22 cm).
No signature.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Alexander Calder, Handwritten, signed letter, from Sache near Tours, France
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder
Handwritten, signed letter, 1956
Ink on paper: 2 page handwritten and hand signed letter
Hand signed by Calder at the end of the letter on the second page.
Unique
11...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Erotic Scene - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1970
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a charcaol Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1970s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little cardboard.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink
Nude - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an ink drawing realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Early-20th Century.
Ink and watercolor.
Good condition.
Hand monogrammed.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
To The Bathroom - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
To The Bathroom is a Colored lithograph realized on japan paper by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca.
French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director.
...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by a French Artist in the Early 20th Century.
Watercolor drawings.
Good conditions.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hugh Casson: Oriel College, Oxford watercolour
By Hugh Casson
Located in London, GB
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Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Oriel College, Oxford
27 x 39 cm
Watercolour
We are lucky to be able to offer here the original watercolour from which Casson’s print of the College was produced. We also (elsewhere on the site) offer the print from his ever-popular Oxford and Cambridge series.
Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Bird - Drawing by Benn - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is a drawing in pastel on paper realized by Benn (Bencjon Rabinowicz) in 1970.
Hand signed on the lower, dated.
Good conditions.
Benn (Bencj...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Jonathan Winters, Old Cross Dresser, unique drawing in pen
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a unique drawing created by Jonathan Winters in 2001 using pen and ink. It is hand signed and dated, "May 22, 2001." Winters was an iconic American comedian, actor, aut...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Blanche Grambs, (Young Bird with Ferns)
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. This charming piece places the yooun...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Running Horse Study
Located in Missouri, MO
Running Horse Study
William Henry Dethlef Koerner (German, American, 1878-1938)
Pencil on Paper
Signed Lower Right
5 x 8 inches
12 x 15 inches with frame
William Henry Dethlef Koern...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Alfred Bendiner, Santa Fe Cowhands (New Mexico)
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing!
In this scene of a young 'cowgirl' is working a lasso while an 'old cowhand' looks on -- clutching a cigaret of...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Native Mexican Women (Cuban Miami artist pastel)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alex (Cuban, b.1949). Indigenous Mexican Women, 1982. Pastel and charcoal on wove paper, sheet measures 23 x 33 inches; 31.5 x 41 inches framed. Excellent condition with no damage or...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
City - Mixed Media by N. Czinober - mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
City is an original drawing in pencil made by the Hungarian artist Nicolas Czinober in the mid-20th century.The state of preservation is good, the paper presents some small stains.
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Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil
Capitola Beach, California - Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Capitola Beach, California - Original Watercolor on Paper
Beautiful watercolor painting of Capitola Beach by Ken L. Stephens (American, 20th Century). A couple sits by the water, wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper
1940s Charcoal and Pencil Portrait of a Man
Located in Arp, TX
Artist Unknown
"Tie and Glasses"
c. 1940s
Charcoal and pencil on paper
13.5"x17" site 19"x23" rustic wood frame
Unsigned
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
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