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Medium: Graphite
Yvonne Posant by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 - Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne Posant by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paulémile-Pissarro-, and titled lower rig...
Category
1930s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Tattoed character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Le jour se lève
Located in Malmo, SE
Signed, titled and dated on the verso.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
Working on a variety of perceptual levels, Philippe Huart lets one visit his intim...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen, Graphite
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
An elegant, cabinet-sized Post-Impressionist graphite drawing of a young woman, sh...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Untitled (Standing Male Nude 1)
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988), estate stamp verso and created circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Ch...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Preliminary Study for the painting Rose and Gold, 1913
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Study for the painting Rose and Gold, 1913
Graphite on paper, 1913
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Titlted "Lizzy Young" in pencil upper left (see photo)
Lizzy was a modle that Paxton depicts numerous times.
The painting that this drawing is related to, is illustrated in Lee & Krause, William McGregor Paxton, 1869-1941, Plate 32, text on page 132. The painting was formerly in the collection of Victor Spark and the Honorable Paul Buchanan. It is currently in a Texas Collection.
Provenance: Private Collection, Florida
William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists. He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School, where he met his wife Elizabeth Okie Paxton, and at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. Paxton is known for his portraits, including those of two presidents—Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge—and interior scenes with women, including his wife. His works are in many museums in the United States.
Early life
He was born on June 22, 1869, in Baltimore to James and Rose Doherty Paxton. William's father moved the Paxton family and established a catering business in Newton Corner, Massachusetts, in the mid-1870s.
Education
Paxton attended Cowles Art School on a scholarship he attained at the age of 18. He studied with Dennis Miller Bunker...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Academie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Rue de Thorigny, signed F. Feuilloy
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and crayon in color with white heightening on cream wove paper, 13 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (343 x 310 mm) (sheet). In good condition with uniform toning, handling creases, and lightly dog-eared corners.
The building on the left is a hotel particulier in Paris' Marais neighborhood, the Hôtel Salé, which now houses the Musée Picasso.
Category
Late 19th Century French School Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Sketch of A Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
A piercing study of a woman with an intense stare. The artist captures the woman from lower angle with her gaze staring down at the viewer giving her a strong, defiant aura. Signed t...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Women with Beaded Necklace
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming graphite study depicting a woman with short cropped hair in a 1920's fashion wearing a beaded necklace. There are to sketched to the right side of the page practising the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Fragrantissima
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beauty in all its strangeness. Manch...
Category
2010s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Graphite
Hand VI Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing tree tattoo write
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Portrait of a Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A captivating graphite study of a middle aged woman with short cropped hair. The artist depicts the women from lower angle to best captures her strong features and distant gaze. Sign...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
The Docks, Watercolour and Graphite Artworks, 1918, British Artist, Marine
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and graphite on paper, signed and dated '1918' bottom right
Image size: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (25 x 35 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Provenance
London Private ...
Category
1910s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Still Life
By Stanley Bielecky
Located in Chicago, IL
A Cubist black & white graphite drawing of fruit by artist Illinois and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky.
Category
1940s American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Study of a Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming graphite sketch if a woman with neatly pinned hair. The artist's proprietary sketch can be scene to the right, which the artist has used to create the much finer portrait ...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Morandi 12 (Abstract Cubist Still Life Painting Inspired by Morandi Bottles)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite and acrylic painting inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle still life paintings
"Morandi 12” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Ernest Procter (1886-1935) - 1925 Graphite Drawing, A Distant Look
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful study of a woman looking into the distance. There is a small sketch to the upper left where the artist has [practised the woman's eyes before doing a finer sketch to the...
Category
Early 20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Study for "Lucifer"
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Self Portrait with Armor, 1973
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Reg Butler Abstract Figurative Signed "Manipulator"
By Reg Butler
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
"Manipulator" is an abstracted figurative drawing in charcoal and graphite. The figure seems to be "manipulating" some object it holds without visual clarity as w...
Category
1960s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Charcoal
Parlor No. 2, 1973
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Male Lying Nude
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a drawing from the artist's sketchbooks. This pencil drawing shows a nude male in repose, The drawing is dated November 30 '36 (1936). Clearly the works are authentic and this sketch is signed "Jackson Lee Nesbitt...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Temptation
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
4th of July, No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
4th of July No. 2, 1983
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
4th of July No. 1, 1975
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Nashville is an Enigma
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Country Music (Nashville is an Enigma), 1986
Mixed media; colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper, uniquely signed and inscribed with Nashville dateline
Hand ...
Category
1980s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
6/21/96.9 (hand signed and dated original graphite drawing; unique)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
PETER HALLEY
6/21/96.9, 1998
Graphite and ink drawing
Hand-signed by artist, signed and dated in graphite lower right front; lower left front bears title: 6/21/96.9
Frame included: e...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Study of a Woman, Graphite Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Signed
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed on reverse
Image size: 11 x 9 1/2 inches (28 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
Ernest Proctor
Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, the son of a scientist, Ernest was educated at Bootham Friends' School in York and then came to Newlyn in 1907 to study with Stanhope Forbes. He quickly become recognized as the best student of the School. He acted as Assistant to Stanhope Forbes and Elizabeth Forbes...
Category
20th Century Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Learning to Fly
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Foam Board, Pencil, Graphite
Castello (Castle) signed unique painting abstract expressionist mid century art
Located in New York, NY
Remo Farruggio
Castello (Castle), ca. 1958
Oil on paper painting (hand signed twice by the artist)
Hand signed twice by the artist on the lower front (center and right), and titled "...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Sound Art Drawing 02 based on the electronic work Alien Bog by Pauline Oliveros
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work is from The Sound Art Drawings, a series by New York City-based artist Christopher Stout, whose pronouns are he/him or the inclusive they/t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Graphite, Ink
Pencil Study #23
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #23
2016
Graphite on paper
10 x 7 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Graphite on wove paper, heightened with color, c. 1930
Unsigned
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Condition: Very good
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dawson's Auction, Morris Plains, NY, 2001
Boris Lovet-Lorski
Lithuanian/Russian/American
1894-1973
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Boris Lovet-Lorski was born in Lithuania in 1894. His mother died when he was age three. His father was affluent and owned real estate. Boris grew up in a privileged environment. He studied architecture and then fine arts at the Imperial Academy of Art in Petrograd, Russia (now Saint Petersburg). Following the revolution in 1917 and its aftermath, Boris immigrated to Boston to live with his brother. In the 1920’s, his stylized, Art Deco inspired sculptures, lithographs, and paintings proved to be popular among the American elite. He exhibited frequently, holding his first solo exhibition in Boston, 1920. In the following years, Boris exhibited in New York at Marie Sterner Gallery, Jacques Seligmann Galleries and Wildenstein and Company. He lived in Paris from 1926 to 1932 where he befriended Joseph Hecht, and was exposed to the works of Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Contantin Brancusi and Aristide Maillol. In 1932 he returned to America where he became a citizen later in the decade.
Lovet-Lorski exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists (New York), the National Academy of Design (New York), and the Lotos Club (New York), as well as several Parisian salons. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Musée Luxembourg, Bibliotèque Nationale, and the Petit Palais in France, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (A more extensive list of his works in museums follows) He is considered one of the most successful and recognized sculptors of his generation. His creative influence can be seen in many of his contemporary artists.
He died in Los Angeles in 1973.
Regarding his iconic Art Deco sculptures of Cretan Dancers:
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Lovet-Lorski created sculptures of the following major figures
I.J. Paderewski, Prime Minister of Poland
Arturo Toscanini, Italian Conductor
Lilian Gish, Actress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. M. C. Niarchos, wife of Stavros Niarchos
President Abraham Lincoln
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, First Secretary of Defense
Pope Pius XII
Dr. Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician
General Charles De Gaulle, President of the Fourth and Fifth Republic, France
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953-1959
President John F. Kennedy
Works by Lover Lorski are in the following public collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
British Museum, London
Boston University
Brooklyn Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Sam Francisco...
Category
1930s Art Deco Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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 Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Multiply and Divide, Dandelions, Bunny Rabbit, Animal, Gray, Black
By Francine Fox
Located in Kent, CT
This graphite drawing on Bristol paper depicts a rabbit surrounded by floating bits of dandelions that have gone to seed against a dark black background. Fox's excellent use of material allow her to blend multiple images together, creating a seamless image with layers of narrative complexity.
Framed in a solid white float frame. 8 x 8 inches (unframed), 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (framed). Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Francine Fox works in many mediums including oil paint, watercolor, gouache, graphite and ink to produce striking and unsettling works of great beauty and psychological complexity. Fox incorporates art historical references, organically composed diagrams and personal and cultural vocabularies into her work.
From the artist's statement:
"I strive to produce work that is at once both striking and unsettling and intend the compilation of my formal and conceptual elements to parallel and reveal the intricacies of gray areas between seemingly dissonant traits.
The gray areas I depict most frequently can be classified as the shared liminal compartments in Venn Diagrams, the middle sections along continuums or circumstances when the correct answer is both yes and no. While it is easier to think and understand in terms of binaries, these types of thought processes tend to oversimplify. The murky places in between are often harder to comprehend, and yet they are also more relatable and interesting because of their complex, confusing, and sometimes unresolved nature. My goal is not to clarify gray areas; rather, I hope to lure viewers into contemplation of the causes of the wonder and discomfort surrounding liminals.
My work frequently returns to the gray areas between the themes of physical and metaphysical, evidence and faith, chaos and order, and identity philosophies rooted in either individualism or collectivism. My paintings and drawings create records of the perceived significance and beauty of these transitional spaces through the mediums of graphite, charcoal, watercolor, gouache, oil paint and digital painting. Within my body of work, the imagery includes figures, gently anthropomorphized animals, traditional and contemporary semiotics, and depictions of invisible forces through modified and invented charting symbols. My influences range from Walton Ford, Martin Wittfooth...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Mountain landscape with an aqueduct and dam - FRENCH SCHOOL
Located in Middletown, NY
Pencil on smooth cream wove paper with a window pane drawn in gold ink, 8 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (213 x 298 mm). Signed illegibly and dated in ink and again in pencil within the lower m...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Bable
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Lotus
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
Category
2010s Surrealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Sketch of a woman's head in profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sketch of a woman's head in profile
Graphite on paper, c. 1900-1910
Unsigned
Condition: Excellent
Tiny tear upper right near hinge (repaired and bearly visible)
Sheet size: 4 5/8 x 3...
Category
1910s Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Edward Walker (1879-1955) - Framed Coloured Pencil Drawing, Waiting at The Door
By Edward Walker
Located in Corsham, GB
A detailed depiction of a large country house by listed British artist Edward Walker (1879-1955). The scene shows a mother and daughter on the front step of their grand country home ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Untitled (de Kooning)
Located in New York, NY
Richard Prince
Untitled (de Kooning), 2008
Collage with color offset lithograph, hand-cutting, hand-painting and assemblage with extensive additions in graphite mounted on on inset board.
Hand signed and numbered with the letter L (from A-Z) by artist on the front
Frame Included
Richard Prince’s “de Kooning” series is a process of interaction and appropriation with the works of ground-breaking imagery of the Abstract Expressionist master, Willem de Kooning. The idea for these edgy, Oedipal works came to him when he was leafing through a catalogue of de Kooning’s "Women" series. Prince started sketching over the paintings, and, as time went on, he began applying fragments cut and pasted from catalogues and vintage porn...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Graphite
Victoire sur les cosmos
Located in PARIS, FR
Shane Wolf is an American artist born in 1976 in Cincinnati.
A first university career in graphic design led him to work for major French industrial brands. He then settled in Annecy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 - Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
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Yvonne Assise by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on pape...
Category
1930s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Threshold VII
Located in PARIS, FR
Shane Wolf is an American artist born in 1976 in Cincinnati.
A first university career in graphic design led him to work for major French industrial brands. He then settled in Annecy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Infanta IV: Figurative Cubist Abstract Graphite Drawing with Antique Frame
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative abstract cubist style drawing inspired by the Infanta Margarita in an antique gold frame
“Infanta IV” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2015
23 x 18 inch...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Geometric Abstraction (abstract expressionist) painting on paper
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Geometric Abstraction, 1971
Watercolor and graphite on graph paper
Signed and dated "Katherine Porter 1971" in pencil on the front
Held in original vintage 1970s met...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Preliminary study for Cretan Dancer bronze sculpture
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary study for Cretan Dancer bronze sculpture
Unsigned
Graphite on tracing paper, 1930-1934
Sheet size: 6 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches
Created while the artist was woring in Paris, c. 1930
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Regarding the artist:
Boris Lovet-Lorski
Lithuanian/Russian/American
1894-1973
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Boris Lovet-Lorski was born in Lithuania in 1894. His mother died when he was age three. His father was affluent and owned real estate. Boris grew up in a privileged environment. He studied architecture and then fine arts at the Imperial Academy of Art in Petrograd, Russia (now Saint Petersburg). Following the revolution in 1917 and its aftermath, Boris immigrated to Boston to live with his brother. In the 1920’s, his stylized, Art Deco inspired sculptures, lithographs, and paintings proved to be popular among the American elite. He exhibited frequently, holding his first solo exhibition in Boston, 1920. In the following years, Boris exhibited in New York at Marie Sterner Gallery, Jacques Seligmann Galleries and Wildenstein and Company. He lived in Paris from 1926 to 1932 where he befriended Joseph Hecht, and was exposed to the works of Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Contantin Brancusi and Aristide Maillol. In 1932 he returned to America where he became a citizen later in the decade.
Lovet-Lorski exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists (New York), the National Academy of Design (New York), and the Lotos Club (New York), as well as several Parisian salons. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Musée Luxembourg, Bibliotèque Nationale, and the Petit Palais in France, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (A more extensive list of his works in museums follows) He is considered one of the most successful and recognized sculptors of his generation. His creative influence can be seen in many of his contemporary artists.
He died in Los Angeles in 1973.
Regarding his iconic Art Deco sculptures of Cretan Dancers:
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Lovet-Lorski created sculptures of the following major figures
I.J. Paderewski, Prime Minister of Poland
Arturo Toscanini, Italian Conductor
Lilian Gish, Actress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. M. C. Niarchos, wife of Stavros Niarchos
President Abraham Lincoln
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, First Secretary of Defense
Pope Pius XII
Dr. Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician
General Charles De Gaulle, President of the Fourth and Fifth Republic, France
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953-1959
President John F. Kennedy
Works by Lover Lorski are in the following public collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
British Museum, London
Boston University
Brooklyn Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Sam Francisco...
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1930s Art Deco Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Resting Man (Man relaxes draped only in a small towel)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A rare pencil drawing by John Lear created in 1937, signed and dated in pencil.
John Brock Lear, Jr.
Born: 1910 - Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
Died: ...
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1930s Academic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
The Body is Sacred - Muscular Male Nude, Graphite Drawing on Paper, Framed
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
Rick Sindt's knowledge of the male physique is evident in this exquisite drawing of a nude male. The subject stands with his face tilted away from the viewer. His tall, straight po...
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2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
PORTRAIT OF NATHANIEL KAZ
Located in Portland, ME
Zorach, William (American 1887-1966). PORTRAIT OF NATHANIEL KAZ. Pencil on paper, 1956. Inscribed and signed by Zorach as follows: "Nat Kaz / William Zorach / Sept 19 1920 / Feb 19, ...
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1950s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of Brigette Kelly, Signed Graphite Sketch, Modern British 1942
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom right
Entitled and dated 'Nov 1942' verso
Image size: 7 x 10 inches (17.75 x 25.5 cm)
Period gilt frame
This is a delicate portrait of Brigitte Kell...
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1940s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Standing Nude', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière et Etrangères, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
A bold figural study of a nude in contrapposto, shown posing with drapery and cont...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Landing, Cobalt Blue, Burgundy, Yellow, Green, Pink, Gray Detailed Drawing, Tree
Located in Kent, CT
In carefully drawn dots and lines in deep shades of cobalt and indigo blue with teal, yellow and dusty rose pink details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature...
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2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Pencil Study #6
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #16
2016
Graphite on paper
12.75 x 4.25 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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