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Medium: Graphite
Ritratto di Noemi
Located in Mokena, IL
Ritratto di Noemi, 2019
Graphite and White Chalk on Toned Paper, 7 x 10 inches
“Ritratto di Noemi”, a captivating portrait, by artist Justas Varp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper, Graphite
"Duomo" - Venice - Architectural Watercolor Painting - Turner
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Duomo" is a watercolor painting featuring subtle hues of blue and orange.
McLean Jenkins is inspired by the work of JMW Turner, Richard Diebenkorn and Louis Khan.
McLean Jenkins is a practicing architect with McAlpine and his work derives from and celebrates the classical forms of his trade. Working in graphite, ink and watercolor, McLean employs a gestural approach that frees his hand to explore a subject’s essence. His compositions rely on the quick, decisive sketch and are then given over to the whims and splashes of watercolor. Spontaneity, movement and spirit are all emphasized and his drawings collectively form their own narrative of his passion for architecture.
The city of Venice has captured McLean’s imagination since his first trip there as a 12 year old boy. Over the years a kind of courtship with the city has evolved, and its impact has motivated and sustained his development as both architect and artist. His work depicting the city has been recognized within the architectural profession by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in its award to McLean of the J. Neel Reid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Graphite on paper, 1945-1951
Signed lower right in pencil "Bisttram" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9.63 x 7 .5 inches
EMIL BISTTRAM (189...
Category
1940s American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Infrapaisaje (infra-Landscape)
Located in Bozeman, MT
Humberto Ramirez was born in Guadalajara, México, 1982. Lives and works in Guadalajara. His recent work explores human behavior from primitive perspective...
Category
2010s Minimalist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
"The Study Hour, " Illustration for The Ladies' Home Journal, April 1908
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor, Graphite, and Wash on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
"The Study Hour (The College Girl at Her Studies)." Illustration for the Colleg...
Category
Early 1900s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
"The Nine Eyes Widely Opened" mixed media
Located in New York, NY
Meg Hitchcock
The Nine Eyes Widely Opened, 2022
Text from The Tibetan Book of the Dead, acrylic graphite, ink,
embroidery thread
14 x 11 in.
frame size: 17.75 x 14.75 in.
(Hit005)
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Thread, Ink, Graphite
Over the Top
By Nancy Lasar
Located in Westport, CT
Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”.
The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...
Category
2010s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Graphite, Mixed Media
Woman with Bicycle: Two Views
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Bicycle: Two Views
Graphite on paper, c. 1890
Unsigned
Graphite study of standing female nude verso
Provenance:
Rookwood Pottery Factory Collection, Cincinnati
Spanierman ...
Category
1890s American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Study of the Apollo Belvedere, Graphite Sketch, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 3/4 x 26 inches (35 x 66 cm)
This is most likely to be a drawing from an Academy student, executed as part of their academic training. The academic ...
Category
19th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Checks and Balance
By Nancy Lasar
Located in Westport, CT
Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”.
The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...
Category
2010s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Mixed Media, Graphite
Wildflowers #1
By Nancy Lasar
Located in Westport, CT
Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”.
The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...
Category
2010s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Graphite, Mixed Media
Woman Graphite Pencil Drawing 1979 Signed Unique
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist : Raphael Soyer
Title : Woman
Year: 1979
Drawing in Pencil Signed in pencil
Drawing Size 11½" x 16 Inches
Matted Size : inches 16" x 20" inches
Born in 1899, Raphael So...
Category
1970s American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Study for "Lucifer"
Located in New York, NY
This work on paper by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Teatro
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With a career spanning more than three decades, Robbie Cornelissen has established himself among the leading contemporary draughtsmen in Europe. His vast and irresolute creative univ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus.
Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist.
Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time.
In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
Category
20th Century American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
'Standing Girl', École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Michonze' for Gregoire Michonze, also known as Gregoire Michonznic (Russian-French, 1902-1982) and dated 1945.
Grégoire Michonze (Michonznic) was born into a Je...
Category
1940s Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
New Nostalgias, Cityscape, Buildings, Watercolor, Work on Paper, Interior Scene
Located in Riverdale, NY
New Nostalgias is a new work on paper by Turkish artist Yasemin Kackar Demirel. This architectural inspired artwork is watercolor, block print and grap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Cottages in Devon
By Samuel Prout
Located in Middletown, NY
An early Devonshire landscape, ex-collection West Collection of British Watercolors & the Fine Art Society, London.
Circa 1800
Ink and brown wash on paper, 7 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (...
Category
Early 1800s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Farnese 103
By Gale Antokal
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A graphite drawing on Yupo.
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
The Buvette by Benjamin II Vautier - Graphite on paper - 19x21 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Benjamin II Vautier (1895–1974) was a Swiss-born artist, known for his contributions to both painting and graphic art. He was born into a family with artistic roots, as the son of Ot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, 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
'Standing Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Standing Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA, Carmel
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Pressure
By Robert Longo
Located in New York, NY
Robert Longo
Pressure, 1983
Acrylic and Graphite on Paper
Signed and dated 'Robert Longo 83’ (lower right) in graphite
Frame included:
Floated and framed in a museum quality frame with UV plexiglass
This is a unique painting
"Pressure " [on God], Robert Longo's unique acrylic and graphite work on paper, was created during the same period as his iconic work, simply labeled "Pressure", now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y. Whereas the latter depicts a young man, the present work, titled "Pressure on Heaven", then deliberately changed to "Pressure on God", is more ethereal in subject matter, though the lone youth's image is still present in the composition.
From Lexander magazine:
"In the excerpt from Neal Benezra’s article about 1980s art in the previous post, he writes, “Robert Longo’s Pressure might well be the most representative work of art of the 1980s.” I would go further and state that it is the definitive work of the 1980s—the penultimate visual anthem of the era—and most especially the period between 1979—1987, during which the musical genres of gothic rock and deathrock flourished and achieved their greatest artistic successes through the work of a variety of diverse bands including Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees...
Category
1980s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite, Mixed Media
A ca. 1940s Graphite on Paper Mural Study of a City Scene by Rudolph Weisenborn
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1940s graphite on paper mural study of a Chicago city scene by notable Modern artist Rudolph Weisenborn. Artwork size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/4". Archivally matted to 18" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Rudolph Weisenborn was born in Strassburg, Germany in 1881, but was orphaned at the age of nine. He was taken-in by Mid-Western farmer Thomas Westaby and spent his early years in Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota. Weisenborn first attended the University of North Dakota in 1898, then the Students School of Art in Denver. Various accounts have him working out west as a gold miner and cowboy.
Around 1912, he settled in Chicago and worked as a window designer for Marshall Field’s. Weisenborn is best known as the founder of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. The group was founded because many artists could not get their work accepted into the mainstream Art Institute shows. Weisenborn is quoted as saying that he harbored feelings of disdain for any jury and that his own paintings were frequently rejected by conservative jurors. He was also involved and helped found other radical artist’s groups such as the Salon des Refuses, Cor Ardens and Neo-Arlimusic. In 1936, he helped found the New York-based American Abstract Artist’s Group. He created the only abstract mural for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and also worked for the Federal Arts Project in the Easel Division. His WPA murals can be found in Crane Technical High School and Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago, IL. In 1945, Chicago businessman Herman Spertus...
Category
1940s American Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Car in a Village by Benjamin II Vautier - Graphite on Paper - 26x17 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Benjamin II Vautier (1895–1974) was a Swiss-born artist, known for his contributions to both painting and graphic art. He was born into a family with artistic roots, as the son of Ot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Cluster - Contemporary Pattern Drawing Navy Blue Pink Peach Orange, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
A contemporary drawing with delicate dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink and dark cobalt details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. Thi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Bodybuilder
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Graphite on colored paper.
This work is unique.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the V...
Category
1980s Pop Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The children of fire Haude Bernabé 21st Century Contemporary Figurative Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and graphite on paper
Signed, entitled and dated lower left by the artist
Category
2010s Outsider Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Untitled t-nail drawing, unique geometric abstraction hand signed framed
By James Siena
Located in New York, NY
James Siena
Untitled t-nail drawing (reference: two against two), 1999
Graphite on paper
Pencil signed, titled, annotated and dated on the reverse of the sheet (see photos)
also penc...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Pencil
Miss Twisty: Back to the City - Mid-Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Miss Twisty is a story of a young girl who leaves the big city to spend time in the country. The book is filled with insight and humor. This work is a deftly rendered black-and-wh...
Category
1940s Academic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection of Seymour Stein, Vice President of Warner Bros Records
Sotheby's 'Modern British and Irish Art,' London, 19 May 2004, lot 92
The three impressive drawings are studies for Stroudley’s ‘Olympic Games in a Demi-Lune’. From left to right the studies depict groups of athletes practicing diving, a conversing crowd of oarsmen, hurdlers mid jump and a collection of javelin throwers. This study was created in 1930 when Stroudley practiced in the British School in Rome. There are few surviving works from Stroudley’s short stay in Rome, with the compositions from his Rome period being among the last wholly successful decorative cycles produced by a Rome Scholar prior to World War II. Indeed, as can be seen here, his drawings from this period are technically brilliant and even bear comparison with those of Eric Kennington.
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
Category
1930s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
(Male Nude) Untitled, 1977, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: (Male Nude) Untitled
Year: 1977
Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board
Size: 48.5 x 38.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed & date...
Category
1970s Photorealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Alice by Alice" Alice Neel, Introspective Self-Portrait, Female Artist
By Alice Neel
Located in New York, NY
Alice Neel
Alice by Alice (Self-portrait), circa 1932
Signed, dated and titled lower left
Graphite on paper
11 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches
Provenance
The artist
Estate of the artist
Robert M...
Category
1930s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Snow Flora, Falling - Contemporary Drawing Cobalt Blue Peach Snowflake Branches
Located in Kent, CT
In this cotemporary drawing, carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink, green, yellow and dark red details in an intricate composition are inspired by pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist
Located in New York, NY
Walter Darby Bannard
Ammersee #2, 1975
Watercolor and acrylic painting on paper
Signed, titled and dated lower recto
This is a unique work
Frame included: elegantly floated and frame...
Category
1970s Color-Field Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
Chaîne de Aravais (Mountains in the Alps) - French School, drawing, circa 1850
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful drawing of the Aravis mountain chain in the Alps, including Mont Blanc, with all of the peaks identified by hand.
Circa 1850
Graphite with white heightening on light card...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Color Pencil, Graphite
Lois Dodd, Landscape painting by renowned female artist (signed and inscribed)
Located in New York, NY
Lois Dodd
Untitled Landscape, 1990
Colored chalk on grey wove paper
Signed, dated and inscribed "For Beverly & Howard", lower right.
Original artist's frame included
This unique work...
Category
1990s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite
Geometric Abstraction (unique, signed graphite drawing gifted to fellow artist)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley
Untitled Geometric Abstraction, ca. 1990
Graphite and Ink
Signed in graphite pencil by Peter Halley; lower right front
Frame included: floated and framed in wood frame
U...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Peter Halley, Hand signed & dated original ink & graphite drawing; unique Framed
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: elegantly matted and framed in a hand made museum frame with UV plexiglass
signed and dated in graphite lower right front; lower left front bears title: 6/21/96.9
This is a unique work
Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality hand made white wood frame under UV plexiglass
Measurements:
Framed
16.5 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by 1.5 inches
Artwork (visible)
10 inches vertical by 8 inches horizontal
Peter Halley Biography
Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York. He began his formal training at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1971. During that time, Halley read Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color (1981), which would influence him throughout his career. From 1973 to 1974 Halley lived in New Orleans, where he absorbed the vibrant cultural influences of the city, began using commercial materials in his art, and first became acquainted with the writings of earthwork artist Robert Smithson. In 1975 the artist graduated from Yale University, New Haven, with a degree in art history. After Yale, Halley returned to New Orleans, where he received an MFA in painting from the University of New Orleans in 1978. He had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, that same year.
In 1978 Halley spent a semester teaching art at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He has continued to teach throughout his career. In 1980, Halley moved back to New York and had his first solo exhibition in the city at PS122 Gallery. At this time, Halley was drawn to the pop themes and social issues addressed in New Wave music. Inspired by New York’s intense urban environment, Halley set out to use the language of geometric abstraction to describe the actual geometricized space around him. He also began his iconic use of fluorescent Day-Glo paint.
In 1984, Halley started to exhibit with the International With Monument gallery, becoming closely associated with the organization and its artists, who exhibited conceptually rigorous work in a market-savvy, coolly presented space that stood in stark contrast to the bohemian, Neo-Expressionist flair of the East Village art scene at the time. In 1986, an exhibition of four artists from International With Monument at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York heralded the group’s growing success. By the late 1980s, Halley was exhibiting with prominent galleries in the United States and Europe. In 1989, an exhibition of his paintings traveled to the Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Maison de la culture et de la communication de Saint-Étienne, France; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. From 1991 to 1992, a retrospective toured Europe, with presentations at the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Musée d’art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museo nacional centro de arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 1992, the Des Moines Art Center hosted his first solo exhibition at a U.S. museum.
While developing his visual language, Halley became interested in French post-structuralist writers, including Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, and Paul Virillio, all of whom shared his concern with the character of social spaces in a post-industrial society. In 1981, he published his first essay “Beat, Minimalism, New Wave, and Robert Smithson” in Arts, a New York–based magazine that would publish eight of his essays before the decade’s end. Halley’s writings became the basis for Neo-Geometric Conceptualism (also known as Neo-Geo), the offshoot of Neo-Conceptualism associated with the work of Ashley Bickerton, Halley, and Jeff Koons. In 1988, the artist’s writings were anthologized in Collected Essays, 1981–1987, and again in 1997 in a second anthology, Recent Essays, 1990–1996.
In the mid-1990s, Halley began to produce site-specific installations for museums, galleries, and public spaces. These characteristically brought together a range of imagery and mediums, including paintings, wall-size flowcharts, and digitally generated wallpaper prints. Halley has executed permanent installations at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. In 2011, his installation of digital prints Judgment Day...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
In Isolation Series II
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This architectural wall-hanging artwork titled "In Isolation Series II" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of collage, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. This pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
English School 18th Century Graphite Drawing - Portrait of Two Children
Located in Corsham, GB
A miniature English School portrait of two children holding a loving embrace. Well presented in a charming bird's-eye maple frame with internal gilt slip and glazing. Unsigned. On pa...
Category
Early 18th Century Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Cherry Blossoms 2, black-and-white tree drawing, graphite pencil on paper
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite graphite drawing by Mary Reilly captures the delicate beauty of cherry blossoms with striking realism and atmospheric depth. Known for her masterful pencil work, Reill...
Category
2010s American Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Viviendo con Van Gogh (Living with Van Gogh)
Located in Atlanta, GA
This graphite drawing on paper is in excellent condition and and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The size dimensions do not include the frame.
Alvar pays homage to one o...
Category
2010s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Natural East Indian painting, turmeric yellow and graphite on canvas
Located in Carballo, ES
This new series by Danish artist Peter Kramer (1959, Roskilde, DK) based in Spain shows us a new way of working with natural and exotic elements. In this case, he uses the turmeric r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Organic Material, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Carriage to the Church by Benjamin II Vautier - Graphite on paper - 20x15 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Benjamin II Vautier (1895–1974) was a Swiss-born artist, known for his contributions to both painting and graphic art. He was born into a family with artistic roots, as the son of Ot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
“Bugs Bunny, Rocky and Mugsy”
Located in Southampton, NY
This is an original drawing by Virgil Ross featuring Bugs Bunny, Rocky, and Mugsy, likely from the classic looney tunes cartoons. Graphite, colored pencil on animation paper. Untrimm...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Shoes
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visua...
Category
1950s Pop Art Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
"White Square"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Burgoyne Diller (1906 – 1965).
Born in New York City in 1906, Burgoyne Diller began drawing when he was stri...
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1960s Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
“Bugs Bunny, Humphrey Bogart and Elmer Fudd”
Located in Southampton, NY
This is an original drawing by Virgil Ross featuring Bugs Bunny, Humphrey Bogart, and Elmer Fudd, inspired by the 1947 cartoon "Slick Hare". Signed lower right in pencil by Virgil Ro...
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1990s Other Art Style Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
“Bugs Bunny & Yosemite Sam”
Located in Southampton, NY
The image is an original animation drawing of Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam by Virgil Ross, a legendary animator from the "Golden Years of Animation" at Warner Bros. Graphite, colored ...
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1990s Other Art Style Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Graphite paint, tissue paper, turmeric and cotton, natural yellow
Located in Carballo, ES
This new series by Danish artist Peter Kramer (1959, Roskilde, DK) based in Spain shows us a new way of working with natural and exotic elements. In this case, he uses the turmeric r...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Organic Material, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Disappearances / Extinctions #1 Hélène Duclos 21st Century drawing landscape art
Located in Paris, FR
This drawing is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living be...
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2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
"Requiem of Regret" (2024) By Brian Serway, Original Graphite Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
"Requiem of Regret" (2024) by Brian Serway is an original handmade drawing made with water soluble graphite on board. This piece depicts a wolf standing on a rock peak looking out ov...
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2010s Realist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Graphite
“The Crow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original gouache and watercolor on brown archival paper of a standing crow in profile. Signed and dated lower right. Condition is good to very good. Colors of the bird are strong a...
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1920s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper, Graphite
Woman in Flight /// Contemporary Fantasy Female Figurative Pastel Painting Lady
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Frank Rakoncay (American, 1936-1998)
Title: "Woman in Flight"
*Signed by Rakoncay in pencil lower left. It is also signed again lower right
Circa: 1980
Medium: Original Oil P...
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1980s Surrealist Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel, Pencil, Graphite
Soft Dissolve
By Ashlie Benton
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Ashlie Benton
Soft Dissolve, 2013
Oil, graphite, gold leaf on Nepal paper
38 x 26.75 inches (96.5 x 67.9 cm)
Edition EV 2/9
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
De Piero a Picasso
Located in Atlanta, GA
This graphite drawing on paper is in excellent condition and and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The size dimensions do not include the frame.
Alvar pays homage to two of his favorite artists in De Piero a Picasso. Early Renaissance Italian painter Piero della Francesca and twentieth-century Modern artist Pablo Picasso frequently appear as sources of inspiration in Alvar’s homage works.
Piero, nowadays celebrated as an artist, was regarded as a mathematician and geometer to his contemporaries in the fifteenth century. Alvar recognizes Piero’s advanced knowledge of perspective and color, his geometric orderliness, and skill in pictorial construction by including a reference to Piero’s History of the True Cross in the lower left corner. The sequence of frescoes painted by Piero circa 1451-1466 is considered an early Renaissance masterpiece.
Creative muses in the center of the painting form a symbolic connection between Piero and Picasso, another artist from which Alvar receives continuing inspiration. A muse upholds a recreation of Picasso’s 1901...
Category
2010s Modern Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Snowflakes 150 Be, Planets, Spiritual Theme, Nature Mandala Pencil Drawing
Located in Kent, CT
Meticulously intricate patterns and little ringed planets surround the edges and reach outward from the center of this circular mandala. Vignettes with tiny landscapes and endless ho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
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