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Art Subject: People
NIGHTWISH - female nude - by Paula Craioveanu -original art inspired by Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Desire”. Part of Blue Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper. Comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. Shipped rolled in a tube 31x3in...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Tempera

Mid Century French Side Profile Portrait of a Lady with a Vintage Hairstyle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided Size: 13 (height) x 10 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good Pr...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Charcoal, Pencil

French Mid Century Drawing, 'Ligne Claire' after Hergé, Grasse, South of France
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid 20th Century drawing in the style of Georges Remi, dit Hergé. The work is not signed but is titled (Cannes) and dated (Mai 1969) to the back of the paper. Presented in modern gilt frame under glass. A charming street view of Cannes on the Cote D'Azur in the South of France, an area now internationally famous for its film annual festival. The artist has captured the imposing nature of the fine stone buildings with their blue and green shutters towering over the scene. Next to it a fine trees so characteristic of French streets are just coming in to leaf. Two men go about their business, one is walking towards a cafe. Cars and a red delivery truck animate the scene. The style of the artist is clearly inspired by the animations of Georges Remi, dit Hergé which were so popular at this period. Georges Remi, more commonly known as Hergé created his own clean, expressive style of drawings known as ligne claire...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon

Figure - Original Pencil Drawing by Paul Gavarni - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the mid-19th Century by Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Original Pencil Drawing. Hand-signed. Good condition.
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Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Expressive Pencil Sketch of a Man with Cigarette
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pencil Sketch of a Man with Cigarette pencil drawing on artist paper painting: 9 x 6.5 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: very good and sound condition Descri...
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20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Vintage Charcoal & Pastel Drawing - Ballet Dancer
By Guy Chabrol
Located in Houston, TX
Graceful pastel and charcoal drawing of a female ballet dancer in motion by artist Guy Chabrol, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Original one-o...
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1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Paper, Pastel

Smithfield Cattle Show, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987) Smithfield Cattle Show Airbrush and gouache 26 x 33 cm c.1930 Provenance: Family of the artist A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustra...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Ballpoint Pen

The Cats - Pen on Paper by Marie Paulette Lagosse - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cats is a drawing in pen on ivory-colored paper, realized by Marie Paulette Lagosse (1921-1996). Hand-signed on the lower right in pen. With a drawing of another sleeping cat on...
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1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ballpoint Pen

THREE WOMEN ON THE BEACH
Located in Portland, ME
Woodbury, Charles (American, 1864-1940) THREE WOMEN ON THE BEACH. Watercolor on paper. 14 3/8 x 9 7/8 inches, framed to 23 x 18 1/2 inches. Accompanied by a letter from a previous ow...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.006
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.006 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing Profile Notation 418.006 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and ...
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2010s Feminist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Sunday In Old Catskill, Harper's New Monthly Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Pencil on Board Sight Size 11.00" x 15.00", Framed 17.50" x 20.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Sunday In Old Catskill, Harper's New Monthly magazine story il...
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1890s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Board, Pencil

Late 19th Century pastel by Chantron of bathers by the side of a river
By Alexandre Jacques Chantron
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Alexandre Jacques Chantron (French 1842 – 1918) Baigneuses au bord de la riviere Pastel Signed 'AJ Chantron' (lower right) 24 x 18 in (61 x 45.7)
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19th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel

"It's A Lot To Unpack" - Figurative work on paper with text
Located in East Quogue, NY
Original mixed media work on paper by Adam Baranello. Mixed media, acrylic, spray paint on canvas. Size 17 x 14 in. Offered unframed. Ships rolled Multidisciplinary artist Adam Ba...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Mid Century French Pencil Sketch of a Mother and Child at the Tailors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided Size: 13 (height) x 10 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good Pr...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Pencil

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

'Vancouver Girl', Young Woman with Bobbed Copper Hair, AIC, Paris, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'George Wilburton Colby' (American, 1859-1922) and dated 1920. George Colby was a member of the old Art League and a life member of the Chicago Art Institute. After hi...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Illustration Board

Untitled IV, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled IV, 1992 by Enrique Grau Graphite on ight cardboard Image size: 17 in H x 14 in W Frame size: 32 in H × 28.5 in W × 2 D in Signed and dated in th...
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1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Cardboard

Woman in Red Swimsuit Perched on Diving Board, Three White Doves Around Her
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Unsigned
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Board

Interior Architecture - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior Architecture is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century. The artwork was realized in mixed media of ink and white lead on paper. Inclu...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media

Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a china ink 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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

"Lanvin Of Paris Original c1950s Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork"
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 18 1/8"H x 12"W Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002) Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar Sailor w/ French Lass In Bag
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

At the Seaside - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel and watercolor on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 157.5x113.5. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on Mar...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Cardboard, Oil Pastel

Drawing - Love and the Minotaur by Cuban Artist Jesus Nodarse
Located in Brooklyn, NY
For the Love and the Minotaur. Figurative Pencil Drawing on archival paper. Cuban Artist Jesus Nodarse 11 x 8 inches unframed THE MAN: Jesús Nodarse Valdés was born in Sagua la ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Pencil

The Masque of Halloween, Trick-or-Treaters
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Masque of Halloween, Trick-or-Treaters in masks and costumes, including one child dressed as Mickey Mouse Medium: Ink, Charcoal and Watercolor on Paper Dimensions: 20.00" x 30.0...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor

British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting Elegant Figures Gossiping
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) original gouache painting on board, unframed size: 15 x 11 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an unfram...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Bring it on. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This set of drawings has been like a Covid-19 diary of one woman and her domestic realm. Simone de Beauvoir, the century's most iconic feminist scholar, called the burden of women's ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Vetements fall, fashion show model 2021
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Nocefresca. Colorful figurative watercolor drawing, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative watercolor on paper painting by Polish artist living in Belgium Hanna Ilczyszyn. Artwork depicts an equestrian who is riding on a unicorn-like creature. Paint...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Winning Home Watercolour by Lucien Peytong (b.-Deauville 1950)
Located in Bristol, CT
Vivid watercolor by Lucien Peytong (b.-1950) depicting a French racehorse Winning Home Art Sz: 11"H x 15" W Frame Sz: 14 1/2"H x 18 1/2"W w/ linen m...
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1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"The Instruction"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Memento Mori - Drawing attr. to Franz Biedermann - 1902
Located in Roma, IT
Memento Mori is a modern artwork realized by Franz Biedermann (attr.) in 1902. Large-format drawing depicting a skull lying on an open book, in front of a large crucifix...
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Early 1900s Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper

1944 Searing Broadway Drama, "Anna Lucasta"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left This piece is on 11.00" x 15.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 8.50" x 10.00." Caricatur...
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1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

In a forest - XX century, Pastel figurative, Colourful
Located in Warsaw, PL
EWA PELLO (born in 1964) She studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She received her diploma in 1989. She specializes in painting and pastel. I...
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20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Portrait of a Mother and Child by Tsuguharu Foujita
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tsuguharu Foujita 1886-1968 Japanese-French Portrait of a Mother and Child Signed “Foujita / Paris” (lower left) Ink and watercolor on paper An artistic luminary well ahead of his time, Tsuguharu Foujita burst onto the international art scene in the early 20th century as one of the most important artists in early Japanese modernism...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

The Broken Heart - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Broken Heart is an Original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century on a telegram paper. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (1898-198...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ballpoint Pen

Remains and fragments - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Nude Oil Painting
By Jan Szczepkowski
Located in Warsaw, PL
PROVENANCE Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery. The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist. The Gallery of Katarzyna Napiorkowska is one of the first private a...
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2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Oil

"Roaring Fork Shelter, North Carolina, [ 35.805, -82.94978 ]" Appalachian Trail
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This drawing titled "Roaring Fork Shelter, North Carolina, [ 35.805, -82.94978 ]" is an original artwork by Sarah Kaizar made of pen and ink, and acrylic wash. Drawing from her experience hiking the Appalachian trailing...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper, Acrylic, Pen

Figures - Drawing by Francisco Bores - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a modern artwork realized by Francisco Bores in 1950. Charcoal drawings. Good conditions.
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing 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 American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Paper

Giambattista Valli Haute couture. From The Fashion Series
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Ink

All Out (50% OFF LIST PRICE - LIMITED TIME ONLY)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lonnie Powell All Out 2009 Pastel on Paper Size: 27x40.5in Frame: 36x50x1.5in Signed and dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1752 ----------- Tags: Women in Sports, Female Ath...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paste, Paper, Oil Pastel

"Jazz Duet"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Joseph Meierhans (1890 - 1980) Joseph Meierhans is one of the most important modernist painters associated with Bucks Count...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Fortune Teller
Located in Fort Washington, PA
William Andrew (Willy) Pogany was a native of Hungary and his first studies in Budapest and Paris were in engineering. Success in caricaturing led him to pursue and art career, first in London and then in America. His influences were the Oriental artists and illuminated books, and much of his career was devoted to book illustration. Among his many successes were The Rubaiyat, The Kasidah, The Children’s Book of Northern Myths, The Witch’s Kitchen, The Frenzied Prince, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Fairy Flowers, Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales, Tales of the Persian Genii, A Treasury of Verse for Little Children, Stories to Tell the Littlest Ones, Hungarian Fairy Book...
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20th Century Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Watercolor

Swimmer - Drawing By Isidore Pils - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Swimmer is an artwork realized  by Isidore Pils in the Mid 20th Century. China ink drawing. In good conditions. Hand-Signed.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

'The Dancers', French Late Mid Century Gouache on Textured Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Mid Century French watercolour and Gouache on handmade paper of a pair of dancers by Damien Hermellin. Signed and dated bottom right. Pres...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Fantasy
Located in London, GB
BELA KADAR 1877-1956 Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian) Title: Fantasy, circa 1940 Technique: Original Hand Signed Gouache on paper size: 46.2 x 29.4 cm / 18.2 x 11.6 in Additional Information: This work is a guache painting by the famous Hungarian artist Bela Kadar. It is hand signed in pencil "Kadar Bela" in the lower right corner of the paper. Exhibitions: New York, Shepherd & Derom Galleries, Hungarian Modernism, 29 April-2 July 2010, no.12. Tel Aviv, Galerie le Minotaure...
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1940s Cubist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Sketch duo
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Workshop stamp Sketch n°1 : 13 x 22.5 cm Sketch n°2 : 13.5 x 32 cm
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Crayon, Pastel

Domingo Alvarez Gómez (1942) - Joven frente al espejo - Dibujo a pastel
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior Se presenta bien enmarcada la obra (no hay cristal para evitar posibles roturas del cristal en el transporte) Medidas obra: 65 cm. de al...
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1990s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Interior designer Sandra Nunnerley at home. Ink and watercolor interiors
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design. The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Gouache, Watercolor

French Watercolor Academic 19th GHESQUIER Portrait young Italian woman Roma 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Désiré Auguste GHESQUIER Lille, 1861 – Lille, 1934 Portrait of an Italian Woman from the Back Watercolor on paper Signed lower right "D. Ghesquier" 39.5 x 27 cm (43.5 x 30.5 cm with ...
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1880s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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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...
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1960s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board

Figurative Pencil Drawing - Male Portrait Studies
Located in Houston, TX
A fascinating 19th Century pencil drawing of varying male portraits, mostly in profile view, with differing facial expressions and facial ...
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1890s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

'International Bar', French School
Located in London, GB
'International Bar, pencil, ink and gouache on card stock by an unnamed artist of the French School (20th Century). This appears to be a fantastical port visit of the artist's imagination. It is very lively in colour and in subject. The artwork was discovered in Paris along with several others of the same character, most likely by the same person. It depicts the entryway of a brightly lit Asian bar...
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Gouache, Pencil

Waiting Room - Drawing att. Fausto Pirandello - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Waiting room is a modern artwork attributed to Fausto Pirandello. Pencil drawing on paper Hand signed and titled on the lower margin. Includes frame
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

A dazzling Venetian Regatta Boat Study attributed to Alessandra Mauro
Located in PARIS, FR
This stunning Baroque study depicts a regatta boat, a type of vessel developed in eighteenth-century Venice for the regattas organized by the Serenissima during visits by royalty and princes. We propose to link this drawing to the work of Alessandro Mauro, an artist who specialized in this type of composition, as illustrated by a drawing from him at the Metropolitan Museum. 1. Description of the boat The greatest decorative fantasy reigns in this preparatory study, which blends mythological and exotic elements with references to ancient Egypt. Our drawing is probably an initial thought, destined to be refined and clarified later in pen and ink (as evidenced by the ink stain in the lower right). A quadriga of seahorses guided by Neptune stands at the stern of the boat, shown well above the waterline (perhaps to outline its empty volume). One of the seahorses is ridden by a newt, while Amphitrite lies at the feet of the sea god. The center of the boat is occupied by a vast baldachin resting on four atlantes and surmounted by a figure riding an animal (a dragon?). Three figures sit beneath the canopy, one of them on a griffin-shaped seat. This allusion to Egyptian antiquity echoes the winged sun (sometimes a symbol of the god Horus, as in the temple of Edfu in Egypt) that adorns the sides of the promontory on which this baldachin rests. Another flag-bearer figure crouches at the stern of the boat on a raised seat, on the reverse of which is a crowned mermaid whose arm, extended backwards, rests on a mascaron decorated with a radiant face (Helios?) and whose torso surmounts an elephant's head. The heads of the rowers and their oars are sketched all along the boat, whose sides are embellished with elongated naiads. 2. The Venetian regatta boats An exhibition held in 2013 at the Ca' Rezzonico (the Venetian eighteenth-century museum) paid tribute to these regatta boats through studies and prints depicting them. The regattas organized by the Serenissima in honor of visiting princes and sovereigns were among the most spectacular ceremonies in Venice. Some important artists of the 18th century contributed to the creation of these extravagant boats which were given exotic names such as bissona, malgarota or peota. The specialists in this field were Andrea Urbani and the brothers Alessandro and Romualdo Mauro. They were born into a family of theater decorators in Piedmont, but little is known about their detailed biography. Alessandro was the architect of the Dresden opera house and of the St. Samuel Theater in Venice (in collaboration with his brother Romualdo), but also worked as stagehand and set designer in Vienna, Rome and Turin. A drawing produced around 1737 from the Metropolitan Museum (7th photo in the gallery) bears witness to his activity as a regatta boat designer. This drawing is a much more elaborate version than the one presented here, having been entirely reworked in brown ink. However, a figure at the bow of the boat, executed solely in black chalk, still bears witness to a technique similar to that of our drawing. It is difficult to know whether the boat depicted in our drawing was a project for an actual boat or whether it remained in the planning stage, but the front of our boat (Neptune and the quadriga of seahorses ridden by a newt) bears several similarities to that of a parade boat depicted in the print published by Michele Marieschi entitled Regatta on the Grand Canal, between the Foscari and Balbi Palaces (last photo in the gallery). This print is dated 1741, which could confirm that our work dates from around 1740. The area between Neptune and the quadriga that precedes him on this strange paddle-boat appears to be partially submerged, confirming that the waterline of our boat was probably intended to be much lower than the one shown in our drawing. The Correr Museum’s collection holds one of the most important collection of engravings and drawings devoted to these specifically Venetian Baroque productions. These boats were intended to last the duration of a festival. Today, they are only documented by preparatory drawings or prints that testify to the sumptuousness of their decoration. This taste for regatta boats lasted throughout the Venetian eighteenth century, and the conception of regatta boats also attracted great masters such as Giambattista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi or Giambattista Piranesi...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Chalk

(Untitled)
By Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board Dimensions: 14.00" x 8.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Magazine story, an image of man in uniform.
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Boris Sporykhin, Interior With Girls Reading, Drawing
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-20th-century drawing by Russian artist Boris Sporykhin (1928-2020) depicts two girls reading within an interior. They also appear in an earlier oil painting, so it’s plausib...
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Paper

Erotic Drawing n. 17 - 1930s - Marcel Vertès - Ink - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Drawing n. 17 is an original black China ink drawing on "British" ivory-colored paper. Hand-signed "Vertés" in black China ink on the lower righ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

LE PAON Watercolor lavis ink Military scene castle bridge French 18th
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Baptiste LE PAON Paris, 1738 – Paris, 1785 Military scene near a castle Wash and ink on paper 25 x 31 cm (38 x 44 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower right: “Le Paon / 1785” C...
Category

1780s Baroque Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

“Holiday Carriage Ride”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache artwork on heavy card by the American artist, Justin Kilbourne. Signed lower left by the artist. Condition is excellent. Dated and artist address stamped verso. This artwork was used as a Christmas card by the Manville Greeting Card Company in 1980. Presently unframed but recently professionally matted. Overall matted measurements are 10 by 8 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York collector. Justin Kilbourne was a student of H.A. Wessel, and senior illustrator and designer at Gibson Greeting Cards. He had four watercolors commissioned by President Johnson...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard

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