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Home VI - Family With A Dog - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple wooden black frames behind glass.
The full signature is on the back of the drawing.
Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
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1930s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
J.B. Dolitro? Company Party. Male French WWII Soldiers w. Kepis and Dancing
Located in New York, NY
The artist who made Company Party. (Male French WWII Soldiers with Kepis and Dancing), about 1939, is unknown. It could be J. B. Dolitro, but that's just a guess and a deep Google se...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Cloud (Entrance, Bikini Islands 1946)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein.
Always working with graphite and charcoal, Ro...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil
Sleepwalking 18, monochromatic dream like figures
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype, Archival Paper
Early 19th Century Graphite Drawing - A Moment to Rest
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful early 19th century graphite piece depicting a mother and child taking a moment to rest and quench their thirst. To the little girl's feet is a cat, vying for attention. ...
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
George Dureau (New Orleans) "Young Man in Hat" - Framed Portrait Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
George Dureau is an icon in the history of New Orleans art. He was friends with Robert Mapplethorpe, and influenced Mapplethorpe's work greatly. Dureau often drew or photographed dwa...
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Late 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Alfred Bendiner, (Baseball Hitter and Pitcher -- The Philadelphia Phillies?)
Located in New York, NY
Of course it's possible that these baseball players aren't from a Philadelphia team, but I doubt it. There was so much drama and intrigue with both the Philadelphia Phillies...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Ray Bolger in "Three to Make Ready" & "Where's Charley?"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
PEN & INK CARICATURES & SKETCHES - Drawings by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Ray Bolger in...
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1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
From the Duchándome Nude, Series. Set of 12 Watercolors & Ink on archival paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchando me series by Celso José Castro - Daza
1. Duchándome May 22nd
2. Duchándose, May 27th
3. Duchándome May 28th
4. Duchándose, May 27th
5. Duchándome, June 5th
6. Pensando & recordando a Luis...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Demonstration #1 Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative art blue
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache, coloured pencil and graphite on paper
Signed lower right
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the human condition and the position of being ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles".
Unsigned and undated. Matting included.
Very good conditions.
Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Les Miserables
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, Pastel
Dimensions: 40.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Les Misérables
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Kachina Figures, by Dan Namingha, green, black, framed, Hopi, drawing, katsina
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Kachina Figures, by Dan Namingha, green, black, framed, Hopi, drawing, katsina
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Les ruban verts, 1897
Located in BLARICUM, NL
THEO VAN RYSSELBERGHE
Gent 1862-1926 Saint-Clair, Var
LES RUBANS VERTS
Portrait of Marquerite Mommen-Ithiers
1897
Pastel on paper
90 x 65 cm.
Signed and dated: lower right with mo...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Introduction, French School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
In this charming scene a maid appears bashful as she is introduced by her mother to the shepherd’s son.
Ink and wash on hand made, cool-toned cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches...
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Mid-18th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Norman Gorbaty Cubist Woman Pastel Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Norman Gorbaty (1932-2020)
Untitled, c. 1996
Pastel on paper
Framed: 39 1/4 x 30 x 1 in.
Signed and dated lower right
After graduating from Amherst College, Gorbaty was the recipien...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Nude Man - Original Drawing by Félix Barrias - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Man is an original pencil Drawing realized by Félix Barrias (1822-1907).
The little artwork is in good condition on a brown paper.
No Signature, i...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mountainous Riverlandscape with resting Wanderers, German, Aquatint, old master
Located in Greven, DE
German or Swiss School, probably Circle of Christoph Nathe (1753-1808)), around 1800; beautiful old master drawing/ aquatint, inscribed "P 50/ 1871 gekauf...
Category
19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
The grand punishment I.
By Fritz Aigner
Located in Wien, 9
ritz Aigner (1930–2005) war ein österreichischer Maler und Grafiker, geboren und gestorben in Linz. Er studierte an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien und wurde früh mit dem S...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
French Charcoal Portrait of an Elderly Man Smoking a Pipe Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Charcoal Portrait of an Elderly Man Smoking a Pipe
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black charcoal on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Siz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Wobbly bridge, Tabanan, Bali, 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Wobbly bridge, Tabanan, Bali, 1937
Signed with initials bottom right and dated, bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 22 x 26.3 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount
Willem Otto Wi...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pencil
Gucci Spring 19 Accessories. Fashion watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Female Sexual Nude
Located in Miami, FL
Sotheby's New York . work is elegantly matted and framed with the Sotheby's sticker on verso
Category
1920s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Sacred Flying Chariot -Drawing - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
The Sacred Flying Chariot is an ink drawing and collage on paper realized by an anonymous surrealist artist in 1937.
Monogrammed "P.B." on the lower and dated and hand-note on the r...
Category
1930s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Distinguished Military Officer in Uniform Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Distinguished Military Officer
pencil sketch on artist paper
painting: 11 x 8.5 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: good and sound condition - a few wear a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
The Cavalry Drummer on Horseback British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cavalry Drummer
(thought to be the Household Cavalry wearing the uniform of HM Queen Elizabeth II)
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original acrylic painting on board, unframed
size: 11 x 16 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an unframed work
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work in the UK
The artist:
Born in Warwick in 1901, Duffield came to Bristol at the age of 23 as an artist at the studio of Mardon Son and Hall. He worked as an illustrator producing designs for cigarette cards, remaining with the company for 37 years until his retirement. He was elected an Artist Member of the Bristol Savages in 1946. He was an extremely keen and regular attender not only in the studio but at all other Savage functions. He was noted for his friendly demeanour and seldom seen without a pipe in his mouth. He was a good pianist and would play popular tunes after the Wednesday evenings’ entertainment for members to join in singing and always with his pipe in his mouth. In 1965 he was commissioned by the Gloucester Regiment to paint a portrait of Brigadier Manley Angell James, VC, DSO, MBE, MC, a Bristol man who won his VC during the first World War. The painting is now in the Imperial War Museum. Frank was made a Life Member in 1973 and died in 1982.
Frank Duffiled was a member of the artist group, known as "The Bristol Savages":
Founded in 1894 by Ernest Ehlers, he invited his fellow Bristol based artists to spend a friendly evening in his studio to work and talk. At first, meetings were held in their private studios, then as their numbers grew, in rented premises. By 1904 this led to the official founding of the Bristol Savages and the holding ever since, of similar weekly meetings between October and May each year. In 1905 the first exhibition of paintings was held at the premises of George Nichols & Co., an auctioneer in Broad Street, Bristol. During the next 14 years exhibitions were held annually in Bristol and their first permanent home was Brandon Cottage which was made available to them through the good offices of fellow member James Fuller Eberle. When the Red Lodge...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Study of a woman in repose - Russian School
Located in Middletown, NY
Pencil on cream wove paper, 9 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (235 x 200 mm). Overall toning with multiple spots of white discoloration throughout, and a spray of foxing across the image area on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Support System (Respect) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Construction
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Wate...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
BOYS WILL BE BOYS original art Paula Craioveanu Male Nude Female Gaze
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Boys will be Boys”, male nude, tempera pencil charcoal on blue paper, 27.5x19.5in, 70x50cm.
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Archival Paper
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Wax Crayon, Rag Paper
Largo
Located in New York, NY
Maurice Denis' extravagant charcoal drawing of a romantic draped figure with outstretched arms is a rare work from the post impressionist period.
Signed with monogram (lower left) a...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
‘Cowboy, 1968’
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Richard McLean
‘Cowboy, 1968’
Framed 30 x 27 inches
Pencil on paper 27½” x 22½ inches
Richard McLean is one of the most highly regarded American photo-realists. His paintings l...
Category
1960s Photorealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
"Masquerade" Original Watercolor & Ink Storyboard by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, and reliable handling. While standard parcel services are an option, the defau...
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1940s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Dead Soldier - Drawing by Jules Cornillier - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
.Dead Soldier is an original drawing in Pastel, ink, and watercolor realized in the 19th Century by Jules Cornillier (1830-1886).
Good condition.
The artwork is depicted through st...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
By Queen Victoria's Daughter Princess Alice Framed Royal Watercolor Painting
By HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary Hanover
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Queen Victoria’s Daughter, HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary, Of The House of Hanover.
The British Royal Family.
British ( b.1843 - d.1878 ).
Long Life And Happiness – June 11th 1860.
Wat...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
North Cornwall Coast line, United Kingdom
By Edward Nevil
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cornwall Coast Line, United Kingdom" c.1880 is a watercolor on paper by British artist Edward Nevil, 1813-1901. It is signed at the lower left corner by the arti...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rome 1878 Classical Roman Architecture Figures at Fountain Signed Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rome
by Arthur A. Wilkinson (British, c.1860-1930)
signed and dated 1878
watercolor on artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 11 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection, the Cotsw...
Category
19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cricket: Defending the Wicket, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Defending the Wicket
Airbrush and pen
13 x 13 cm
c.1930
Signed to the bottom right
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a Bri...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Silvio and Dorinda, a drawing by Leonaert Bramer, Vermeer's first master
Located in PARIS, FR
This finely executed drawing in pen and wash is typical of the work of Leonaert Bramer, one of the most fascinating yet little-known artists of 17th-century Holland.
In a nocturnal ...
Category
1650s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Laid Paper, Pen
Arm
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on paper
13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.2 cm.)
Signed (at lower right): Kupka
EX COLL.: private collection, St. Louis; to Howard Baer, 1972; [Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Galleries,
New York...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Caricature of Opening of Zero Mostel in "Fiddler on the Roof"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This illustration is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board with a 12.50" x 12.00" image. Fine condition, editor's notations in margins.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for the opening of Zero Mostel...
Category
1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
In the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper
Signature: 11.00" x 11.50"
Dimensions: Signed Initials Upper Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing St. Anne & The Virgin Mary with Cherubs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pietro Fancelli (Italian 1764 - 1850)
bio details attached to the frame
'St. Anne & The Virgin'
ink with watercolor wash on paper, framed
framed: 22 x 16 inches
image: 11 x 6.5 inche...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Edward Laning, (Male Figures)
Located in New York, NY
This pencil drawing by master draughtsman Edward Laning has religious over tones. Perhaps it's a study for a deposition. There are male figures, both nude...
Category
1970s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Le marché aux bestiaux by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour and ink on paper
Located in London, GB
Le marché aux bestiaux by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and ink on paper
23.7 x 31.2 cm (9 ³/₈ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paul-Émile Pissarro
Executed circa 19...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Personnages de Cirque
By Celso Lagar
Located in Paris, FR
Celso Lagar
1891-1966 Spanish
Personnages de Cirque (The Circus)
Pair of Watercolors on paper
Both signed lower right
Both measures :
Paper: 13 3/4" high x 9 1/2" wide
Frame : ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mindy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Drawing, ca. 1915;
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Carlos. Martes 24 de Mayo, Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Carlos. Martes 24 de Mayo, 2016 by Celso Castro
Pastel on archival paper
Image size: 59 H in. x 40 in. W
On The back of the painting:
Poncho Jueves 26 de Mayo, "Requiem por la con...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil
Destroyer, American Modern Watercolor Painting by Robert Parker 1964
Located in Long Island City, NY
Executed in an American Modern style reminiscent of Lyonel Feininger, this Robert Andrew Parker watercolor painting depicts a warship at sea. The work is signed and dated lower left....
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Environmental Prognostication Coil Narrative "Homo Sapiens R.I.P."
Located in Miami, FL
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," Joni Mitchell said. - - Created in 1969, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, artist Richard Erdoes draws a sequential narrative in the form of a coil. From inception to destruction, it illustrates a list of things that humans are doing to destroy the world we live in. The work was commissioned for school-age humans and executed in a whimsically comic way. Yet the underlying narrative is sophisticated and foreshadows a world that could be on the brink of ecological disaster.
Graphically and conceptually, this work exhibits an endless amount of creativity and Erdoes cartoony style is one to fall in love with.
Signed lower right. Unframed 12.4 inches Width: 12.85 inches Height is the live area. Board is 16x22 inches.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
Category
1960s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
The Argument
Located in New York, NY
Signed and inscribed on a label on the verso:
No. 1/ The Argument/ W. Cave Thomas/ 203 Camden Rd/ NW
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 6 November 1995, lot 88.
Private Collection, London.
This powerful watercolor is a mature work by the little-known Victorian painter William Cave Thomas...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 47.7 cm (12 ³/₈ x 18 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile Pissarro
Executed circa 1925
...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed).
This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...
Category
1910s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Drawing « helmeted man 1 » for the NASA - Raymond Loewy et William Snaith
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Helmeted man 1" drawing for NASA - Raymond Loewy and William Snaith
Space station - Habitability study
On paper
16 February 1969
42x35
490€
Category
1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
William Glackens Drawing Titled "M. Durand... Arrived on the Scene", Dated 1903
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938
M. Durand... Arrived on the Scene, 1903
Ink, wash, charcoal and Chinese white on paper
Signed (at lower left): W. Glackens...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College Art LGBTQ+ Female Blue Birds Paradise
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Paradise Island, 148x111.5cm, ink, acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, 2013
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabel's own words:
Paradise island
It truly was paradise on paradise island. No plastic bottles touched these shores, no human hand had exploited the rich minerals and resources of the land, no complicated administrative tasks affected the residents. The birdmen who lived there were united in one common purpose, and that was to wait for The Egg. They waited day and night in a fever of excitement, hours and days and sometimes weeks went past and they did not grow weary, this only increased their anticipation. They stretched their arms to the sky and called for The Egg to bless them by falling. Deep in the hearts of the birdmen was a thing never spoken of and rarely even aknowledged to themselves, a common secret, that when The Egg actually fell it was not as good as the anticipation of it.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free.
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel’s hair brush that gives incredible fine lines and was purchased on her travels in India.
Born in Hammersmith, London in 1981, Rock knew her destiny was to be an artist. Studying Fine Art Printmaking at The University of Brighton and graduating with First Class Honours in 2004 she went on to do a Masters Degree at The Royal College of Art in London, continuing her studies in printmaking and drawing, graduating in 2008.
Her first solo show at Bearspace Gallery in Deptford, London in April 2009 sold out and was the beginning of a career that continues to rise. Rock participated in the first ever India Art Fair represented by Art 1821...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
