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Style: Modern
Medium: Charcoal
Sketches - l Charcoal by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an original Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition except for some spots on a white paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Polyamorous - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Polyamorous is a charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was...
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1960s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

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

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Paper, Charcoal

Lacy Grey, semi nude mixed media muted tones lace charcoal
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charcoal, pastel lace Audrey Anastasi states: "The paper doll series was created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal an...
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2010s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pastel, Fabric, Archival Paper

Landscape - Charcoal Drawing on Paper by R. Santerne-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful original drawing on paper realized by Robert Santerne between the 1930s and 1940s. Stamped on the rear "Atelier R.Santerne" Aged conditions with repaired r...
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Early 20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Portrait of Arab - Original Charcoal Drawing by Jean Plumet - Early 20th Century
By Jean Louis Plumet
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Arab is an interesting drawing realized by the French artist Jean Louis Plumet. It is in very good conditions, except for some tiny stains and a fold on the lower part of...
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Early 20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Young Woman Sitting - Charcoal Drawing by Gio Colucci - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Young Woman Sitting is a charcoal drawing on brown paper. Unsigned. Good conditions except for some folds on the corners. Prolific and eclectic, the Italian Gio Colucci (Florence, 1892 – Paris, 1974), also known in France as Geo Colucci, was a painter, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, and sculptor. From 1921, he exhibited his engravings in various salons. He worked with French publishers specialized in the illustrated books of high bibliophilia, and delivered series of remarkable prints for texts by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Loti, Guy Maupassant...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Birds - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Birds is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in mid 20th century. Charcoal and watercolor on paper. Signed by the artist. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-R...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Watercolor

A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Cubist Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A vivid European harbor scene, depicting the whitewashed buildings ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor

A Compelling 1951 Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling, 1951 Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young 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-19th Century American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Study for Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway, Morris Canal)
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner was a German and an American, a trained architect who read voraciously in art theory, color theory, and philosophy, a writer of art criticism both in German and English, and, above all, a practicing artist. Bluemner was an intense man, who sought to express and share, through drawing and painting, universal emotional experience. Undergirded by theory, Bluemner chose color and line for his vehicles; but color especially became the focus of his passion. He was neither abstract artist nor realist, but employed the “expressional use of real phenomena” to pursue his ends. (Oscar Bluemner, from unpublished typescript on “Modern Art” for Camera Work, in Bluemner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, as cited and quoted in Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner [1991], p. 60. The Bluemner papers in the Archives [hereafter abbreviated as AAA] are the primary source for Bluemner scholars. Jeffrey Hayes read them thoroughly and translated key passages for his doctoral dissertation, Oscar Bluemner: Life, Art, and Theory [University of Maryland, 1982; UMI reprint, 1982], which remains the most comprehensive source on Bluemner. In 1991, Hayes published a monographic study of Bluemner digested from his dissertation and, in 2005, contributed a brief essay to the gallery show at Barbara Mathes, op. cit.. The most recent, accessible, and comprehensive view of Bluemner is the richly illustrated, Barbara Haskell, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, exhib. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005.]) Bluemner was born in the industrial city of Prenzlau, Prussia, the son and grandson of builders and artisans. He followed the family predilection and studied architecture, receiving a traditional and thorough German training. He was a prize-winning student and appeared to be on his way to a successful career when he decided, in 1892, to emigrate to America, drawn perhaps by the prospect of immediate architectural opportunities at the Chicago World’s Fair, but, more importantly, seeking a freedom of expression and an expansiveness that he believed he would find in the New World. The course of Bluemner’s American career proved uneven. He did indeed work as an architect in Chicago, but left there distressed at the formulaic quality of what he was paid to do. Plagued by periods of unemployment, he lived variously in Chicago, New York, and Boston. At one especially low point, he pawned his coat and drafting tools and lived in a Bowery flophouse, selling calendars on the streets of New York and begging for stale bread. In Boston, he almost decided to return home to Germany, but was deterred partly because he could not afford the fare for passage. He changed plans and direction again, heading for Chicago, where he married Lina Schumm, a second-generation German-American from Wisconsin. Their first child, Paul Robert, was born in 1897. In 1899, Bluemner became an American citizen. They moved to New York City where, until 1912, Bluemner worked as an architect and draftsman to support his family, which also included a daughter, Ella Vera, born in 1903. All the while, Oscar Bluemner was attracted to the freer possibilities of art. He spent weekends roaming Manhattan’s rural margins, visiting the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey, sketching landscapes in hundreds of small conté crayon drawings. Unlike so many city-based artists, Bluemner did not venture out in search of pristine countryside or unspoiled nature. As he wrote in 1932, in an unsuccessful application for a Guggenheim Fellowship, “I prefer the intimate landscape of our common surroundings, where town and country mingle. For we are in the habit to carry into them our feelings of pain and pleasure, our moods” (as quoted by Joyce E. Brodsky in “Oscar Bluemner in Black and White,” p. 4, in Bulletin 1977, I, no. 5, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut). By 1911, Bluemner had found a powerful muse in a series of old industrial towns, mostly in New Jersey, strung along the route of the Morris Canal. While he educated himself at museums and art galleries, Bluemner entered numerous architectural competitions. In 1903, in partnership with Michael Garven, he designed a new courthouse for Bronx County. Garven, who had ties to Tammany Hall, attempted to exclude Bluemner from financial or artistic credit, but Bluemner promptly sued, and, finally, in 1911, after numerous appeals, won a $7,000 judgment. Barbara Haskell’s recent catalogue reveals more details of Bluemner’s architectural career than have previously been known. Bluemner the architect was also married with a wife and two children. He took what work he could get and had little pride in what he produced, a galling situation for a passionate idealist, and the undoubted explanation for why he later destroyed the bulk of his records for these years. Beginning in 1907, Bluemner maintained a diary, his “Own Principles of Painting,” where he refined his ideas and incorporated insights from his extensive reading in philosophy and criticism both in English and German to create a theoretical basis for his art. Sometime between 1908 and 1910, Bluemner’s life as an artist was transformed by his encounter with the German-educated Alfred Stieglitz, proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue. The two men were kindred Teutonic souls. Bluemner met Stieglitz at about the time that Stieglitz was shifting his serious attention away from photography and toward contemporary art in a modernist idiom. Stieglitz encouraged and presided over Bluemner’s transition from architect to painter. During the same period elements of Bluemner’s study of art began to coalesce into a personal vision. A Van Gogh show in 1908 convinced Bluemner that color could be liberated from the constraints of naturalism. In 1911, Bluemner visited a Cézanne watercolor show at Stieglitz’s gallery and saw, in Cézanne’s formal experiments, a path for uniting Van Gogh’s expressionist use of color with a reality-based but non-objective language of form. A definitive change of course in Bluemner’s professional life came in 1912. Ironically, it was the proceeds from his successful suit to gain credit for his architectural work that enabled Bluemner to commit to painting as a profession. Dividing the judgment money to provide for the adequate support of his wife and two children, he took what remained and financed a trip to Europe. Bluemner traveled across the Continent and England, seeing as much art as possible along the way, and always working at a feverish pace. He took some of his already-completed work with him on his European trip, and arranged his first-ever solo exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, and Elberfeld, Germany. After Bluemner returned from his study trip, he was a painter, and would henceforth return to drafting only as a last-ditch expedient to support his family when his art failed to generate sufficient income. Bluemner became part of the circle of Stieglitz artists at “291,” a group which included Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. He returned to New York in time to show five paintings at the 1913 Armory Show and began, as well, to publish critical and theoretical essays in Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. In its pages he cogently defended the Armory Show against the onslaught of conservative attacks. In 1915, under Stieglitz’s auspices, Bluemner had his first American one-man show at “291.” Bluemner’s work offers an interesting contrast with that of another Stieglitz architect-turned-artist, John Marin, who also had New Jersey connections. The years after 1914 were increasingly uncomfortable. Bluemner remained, all of his life, proud of his German cultural legacy, contributing regularly to German language journals and newspapers in this country. The anti-German sentiment, indeed mania, before and during World War I, made life difficult for the artist and his family. It is impossible to escape the political agenda in Charles Caffin’s critique of Bluemner’s 1915 show. Caffin found in Bluemner’s precise and earnest explorations of form, “drilled, regimented, coerced . . . formations . . . utterly alien to the American idea of democracy” (New York American, reprinted in Camera Work, no. 48 [Oct. 1916], as quoted in Hayes, 1991, p. 71). In 1916, seeking a change of scene, more freedom to paint, and lower expenses, Bluemner moved his family to New Jersey, familiar terrain from his earlier sketching and painting. During the ten years they lived in New Jersey, the Bluemner family moved around the state, usually, but not always, one step ahead of the rent collector. In 1917, Stieglitz closed “291” and did not reestablish a Manhattan gallery until 1925. In the interim, Bluemner developed relationships with other dealers and with patrons. Throughout his career he drew support and encouragement from art cognoscenti who recognized his talent and the high quality of his work. Unfortunately, that did not pay the bills. Chronic shortfalls were aggravated by Bluemner’s inability to sustain supportive relationships. He was a difficult man, eternally bitter at the gap between the ideal and the real. Hard on himself and hard on those around him, he ultimately always found a reason to bite the hand that fed him. Bluemner never achieved financial stability. He left New Jersey in 1926, after the death of his beloved wife, and settled in South Braintree, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, where he continued to paint until his own death in 1938. As late as 1934 and again in 1936, he worked for New Deal art programs designed to support struggling artists. Bluemner held popular taste and mass culture in contempt, and there was certainly no room in his quasi-religious approach to art for accommodation to any perceived commercial advantage. His German background was also problematic, not only for its political disadvantages, but because, in a world where art is understood in terms of national styles, Bluemner was sui generis, and, to this day, lacks a comfortable context. In 1933, Bluemner adopted Florianus (definitively revising his birth names, Friedrich Julius Oskar) as his middle name and incorporated it into his signature, to present “a Latin version of his own surname that he believed reinforced his career-long effort to translate ordinary perceptions into the more timeless and universal languages of art” (Hayes 1982, p. 189 n. 1). In 1939, critic Paul Rosenfeld, a friend and member of the Stieglitz circle, responding to the difficulty in categorizing Bluemner, perceptively located him among “the ranks of the pre-Nazi German moderns” (Hayes 1991, p. 41). Bluemner was powerfully influenced in his career by the intellectual heritage of two towering figures of nineteenth-century German culture, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. A keen student of color theory, Bluemner gave pride of place to the formulations of Goethe, who equated specific colors with emotional properties. In a November 19, 1915, interview in the German-language newspaper, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (Abendblatt), he stated: I comprehend the visible world . . . abstract the primary-artistic . . . and after these elements of realty are extracted and analyzed, I reconstruct a new free creation that still resembles the original, but also . . . becomes an objectification of the abstract idea of beauty. The first—and most conspicuous mark of this creation is . . . colors which accord with the character of things, the locality . . . [and which] like the colors of Cranach, van der Weyden, or Durer, are of absolute purity, breadth, and luminosity. . . . I proceed from the psychological use of color by the Old Masters . . . [in which] we immediately recognize colors as carriers of “sorrow and joy” in Goethe’s sense, or as signs of human relationship. . . . Upon this color symbolism rests the beauty as well as the expressiveness, of earlier sacred paintings. Above all, I recognize myself as a contributor to the new German theory of light and color, which expands Goethe’s law of color through modern scientific means (as quoted in Hayes 1991, p. 71). Hayes has traced the global extent of Bluemner’s intellectual indebtedness to Hegel (1991, pp. 36–37). More specifically, Bluemner made visual, in his art, the Hegelian world view, in the thesis and antithesis of the straight line and the curve, the red and the green, the vertical and the horizontal, the agitation and the calm. Bluemner respected all of these elements equally, painting and drawing the tension and dynamic of the dialectic and seeking ultimate reconciliation in a final visual synthesis. Bluemner was a keen student of art, past and present, looking, dissecting, and digesting all that he saw. He found precedents for his non-naturalist use of brilliant-hued color not only in the work Van Gogh and Cezanne, but also in Gauguin, the Nabis, and the Symbolists, as well as among his contemporaries, the young Germans of Der Blaue Reiter. Bluemner was accustomed to working to the absolute standard of precision required of the architectural draftsman, who adjusts a design many times until its reality incorporates both practical imperatives and aesthetic intentions. Hayes describes Bluemner’s working method, explaining how the artist produced multiple images playing on the same theme—in sketch form, in charcoal, and in watercolor, leading to the oil works that express the ultimate completion of his process (Hayes, 1982, pp. 156–61, including relevant footnotes). Because of Bluemner’s working method, driven not only by visual considerations but also by theoretical constructs, his watercolor and charcoal studies have a unique integrity. They are not, as is sometimes the case with other artists, rough preparatory sketches. They stand on their own, unfinished only in the sense of not finally achieving Bluemner’s carefully considered purpose. The present charcoal drawing is one of a series of images that take as their starting point the Morris Canal as it passed through Rockaway, New Jersey. The Morris Canal industrial towns that Bluemner chose as the points of departure for his early artistic explorations in oil included Paterson with its silk mills (which recalled the mills in the artist’s childhood home in Elberfeld), the port city of Hoboken, Newark, and, more curiously, a series of iron ore mining and refining towns, in the north central part of the state that pre-dated the Canal, harkening back to the era of the Revolutionary War. The Rockaway theme was among the original group of oil paintings that Bluemner painted in six productive months from July through December 1911 and took with him to Europe in 1912. In his painting journal, Bluemner called this work Morris Canal at Rockaway N.J. (AAA, reel 339, frames 150 and 667, Hayes, 1982, pp. 116–17), and exhibited it at the Galerie Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in 1912 as Rockaway N. J. Alter Kanal. After his return, Bluemner scraped down and reworked these canvases. The Rockaway picture survives today, revised between 1914 and 1922, as Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway River) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. (color illus. in Haskell, fig. 48, p. 65). For Bluemner, the charcoal expression of his artistic vision was a critical step in composition. It represented his own adaptation of Arthur Wesley’s Dow’s (1857–1922) description of a Japanese...
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20th Century American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

20th century charcoal animal drawing cat seated sketch black and white signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Cat" is an original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right and wrote the title in charcoal lower left. This piece is a study of a b...
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1950s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

A Charming, Modern 1930s Portrait Study of a Young Male Bather
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, 1930s Modernist Portrait Study of a Seated Young Male Bather by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Most likely completed at a summer lake house in Al...
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1930s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Paper

Head, Ink & Watercolour on Paper by Indian Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Head, Ink & Watercolour on paper - 11 x 17.25 inches (unframed size) Free Shipping Without Frame Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Ex...
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Early 2000s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Charcoal, Watercolor

Boogie Woogie II
Located in Missouri, MO
Boogie Woogie II, 1993 Peter Ambrose (American, b. 1953) Charcoal on Paper Signed and Dated Lower Right Titled Lower Left 41 x 29 inches 46.25 x 34.25 inches with frame BORN 1953 New York, NY EDUCATION 1977 MFA, The School of Art Institute of Chicago 1975 BFA, Carnegie Mellon University 1974 Yale University, Summer School of Art and Music TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1983 Visiting Artist, 2-D, 3-D Design and Graduate Advisor, Carnegie Mellon University 1995-96 Independent Study in Exhibition installation, art handling, restoration, Saint Louis University 1998 Adjunct faculty, Sculpture, Saint Louis University SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1999 Elliott Smith...
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1990s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

An Intimate, 1940s Modern Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
An Intimate, 1940s Modern Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A finely drawn, introspective portrait in pastel and charcoal o...
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1940s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Stevedore Barcelona Spain charcoal drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Dionis Baixeras i Verdaguer (1862-1943) - Docker - Charcoal drawing Drawing measurements 58x43 cm. Frame measurements 74x59 cm. Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer (Barcelona, ​​1862-1943),...
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Late 19th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

A 1940s Noire Inspired Street Scene, Lower Wacker Drive, Chicago, Urban Realism
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1940s Noire Inspired City Street Scene, Lower Wacker Drive, Chicago, Urban Realism by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994).. A boldly executed charcoal study...
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1940s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study
Located in Miami, FL
Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...
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1940s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

Self Portrait, Charcoal on Paper, 20th Century British Drawing
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (11.5 x 10.75 cm) Mounted with a contemporary style frame This is a somewhat haunting self-portrait by William Dring, crafted in charcoal. Here, Dring presents himself through dark shadow and bright highlights, looking out directly at the viewer with a serious gaze. Although the Dring has been economical in the use of his marks we are still given plenty of information and can identify the energy in which the strokes of charcoal must have been placed onto the surface. William Dring Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
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20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Odalisque (figurative drawing, female figure, charcoal, black and white)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer Odalisque Charcoal on paper Year: 1989 Size: 25x19in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1665 Framed charcoal drawing of a crouching faceless female figure on Indi...
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1980s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Dreaming Nude - Hand Signed Original Pastel Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Dreaming Nude Original pastel drawing Hand signed (with the monogram) Stamp of the artist on the back On wove paper 40 x 33 cm (c 15.7 x 12.9 inch) Exc...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Winter View 1, Hudson: Black & White Charcoal and Green Pastel Drawing of Forest
Located in Hudson, NY
charcoal and carbon on Arches cotton paper 8 x 10 inches This contemporary charcoal drawing on Arches cotton paper was completed in 2016 by Sue Bryan. Born in Ireland, the artist uses landscapes from her childhood as inspiration for her current work primarily consisting of beautifully detailed charcoal drawings of trees...
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2010s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil

Seated Nude Woman
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Seated Nude Woman, Charcoal on Paper, woman holding ball, with the artist's signature stamped lower left, unframed. 20" H x 14.25" ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

A ca. 1928 Drawing of a Dapper Man with a Pint Glass by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1928 charcoal on paper drawing of a dapper man with a pint glass by artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 12" x 9". 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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1920s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Preliminary Study for a Sculpture Project
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Study for a Sculpture Project Graphite, charcoal and wash on tracing paper, c. 1930-1940 Signed upper left and lower left (see both photos) Created while the artist was l...
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1930s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

A Charming 1930s Charcoal Study of Three Young Men Reading in a Lakehouse Window
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1930s Charcoal Study of Three Young Men Reading by a Lakehouse Window by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Most likely completed during the summer mo...
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1930s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

A Striking 1940s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1940s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exquisite studio portrait study, charcoal on paper, dating...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

A Finely Drawn 1940s Modern Female Figure Study, Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Chicago, IL
A Finely Drawn, 1940s Modern Female Figure Study, Portrait of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exquisite studio portrait study, charcoal on...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Four Studies of Jeanne - Original signed charcoals drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Angel Seated and Resting Original charcoal drawing Signed bottom left On wove lightly cream paper 54 x 43 cm (c 22 x 17 inch) Excellent condition Gast...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Early Horses VIII, Charcoal on Paper, Drawing, Black by Sunil Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Early Horses VIII - 18.5 x 29 inches (unframed size) Charcoal on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmoder...
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1960s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Horse Riding - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse Riding is a Pastel and Charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Charcoal, Watercolor

Model Getting Up - Original signed charcoals drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Model Getting Up Original charcoal drawing Signed in the bottom right On drawing paper 52 x 43 cm (c 21 x 17 inch) Excellent condition Gaston Coppens ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Portrait of Benito Mussolini - Drawing by Alberto Manetti - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Duce Portrait is a modern artwork realized by the artist Alberto Manetti (known also as Brivido). Pencil and charcoal on paper. Hand signed on the higher right margin. Inscription...
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1920s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pencil

Nude Studies - Original Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Nude Studies" is an original drawing in tempera on paper, realized by an Anonymous Artist of the XX Century . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good; in the lower ce...
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20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pencil

L'Ange - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
L'Ange is an original Drawing in Charcoal realized by an anonymous artist in the 20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes with perfect Hatchings.
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Early 20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Studies - Original Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Studies" is an original drawing in tempera on paper, realized by an Anonymous French Artist of the XX Century . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimens...
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20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Oil Pastel

Thinking Man - Original Charcoal Drawing by Georges Gôbo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Character holding his head with reflection in mirror is an original black chalk drawing on drawing sheet, torn at the top, realized at the beginning of the 19th Century by the artist...
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Early 20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Nudes - Tempera and Carboard on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is a beautiful double-sided sheet with two full page original pantings on cardboard, realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century. On the recto a wonderful origin...
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Early 20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Tempera

Villa Giardino, 20th Century Charcoal Drawing by Cleveland School Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964) Villa Giardino Charcoal on paper Signed and titled verso 17.75 x 12.5 inches A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in 1912, Clara Deike was pa...
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20th Century American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Woman at Rest - Original Charcoal Drawing by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman at Rest is an original artwork realized by Emmanuel Gondouin (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934) in 1930s. This charcoal drawing is a study for the graphic collection entitled "...
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1930s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Nude - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in Charcoal realized in the 20th Century by an anonymous artist. and signed "O. Rosai". Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

The Harbor in London - Drawing by R. L. Antral - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Harbor in London is an original drawing on paper realized in the early 20th century by Robert Louis Antral . This is an original black and white drawing representing a view of a London harbor...
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Early 20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pencil

Modern Mid-Century Odalisque, Reclining Female Nude.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid 20th century modern work on paper of a female nude by Andre Petroff. Signed with monogram bottom right, presented under glass in plain red painted ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache

Male Portrait - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Ritratto maschile (Male portrait) is an original drawing on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989). Charc...
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1970s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Ink

Beach Seascape
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Beach Seascape, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 25.5" H x 20" W. Provenance: From a 3...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Landscape - Original Drawing by Edmond Cuisinier - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in charcoal realized in the early 20th Century by Edmond Cuisinier (1857-1917). Monogrammed on the lower. With the stamp on the rear. Good conditio...
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Early 20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Portrait - Original Charcoal Drawing by Alfred Pichon - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in black chalk on unsigned brown sheet by Alfred PICHON (1877-1918). Good conditions except for minor cosmetic wear.
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Early 20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

The House - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The House is a modern artwork realized by in the 19 th century Charcoal drawings. Good conditions 
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19th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Erotic Scene - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1970
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 Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Ink

Erotic Scene - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Figure is a charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1970. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a white cardboard. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...
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1970s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Figure - Drawing - 1899
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an Original Charcoal Drawing realized in 1899 . Good condition. Hand-signed, dated on the lower right corner, not readable.
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1890s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Figure - Drawing - 1899
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Erotic Composition - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Composition is a charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Portrait of a Man
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Portrait of a Man, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 20" H x 25.75" W. Provenance: From...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Portrait of a Woman
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Portrait of a Woman, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 24" H x 19" W. Provenance: From ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Portrait of a Man
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Portrait of a Man, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower left, unframed. 20" H x 25.5" W. Provenance: From a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Nude on a Chair - Original signed charcoals drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Nude on a Chair Original charcoal drawing Signed in the bottom right Stamp of the artist on the back On drawing paper 52 x 43 cm (c 21 x 17 inch) Exce...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Barns in the Helderberg, New York (rural 1930s American scene with vintage car)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Barns in the Helderberg, New York" by Martin Lewis shows neighbors (one in a Model T car) visiting outside a series of barns with a tree in the background...
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1930s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk, Charcoal

A 1930s Drawing of a Woman Seated at a Lunch Counter by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930s charcoal on paper drawing of a woman seated at a lunch counter by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 10 3/4" x 14". Archivally matted to 20" x 16". Provenance: Estate ...
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1930s American Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Spring Blossom : Leaves in Blue - Original pencil drawing, 1953
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Spring Blossom : Leaves in Blue, 1953 Original pencil drawing Signed by artist stamp On paper 24.5 x 19.5 cm (c. 9.6 x 7.6 inch) Very good condition, marks of the ...
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1950s Modern Charcoal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pencil, Color Pencil

Charcoal drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Charcoal drawings and watercolor paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, pink, yellow and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Mino Maccari, Ian Hornak, Howard Tangye, and James Shipton. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Modern, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Charcoal drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $1,595,000, while the average work can sell for $894.

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