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Medium: Pastel
Fog Lifting at Avalanche Lake, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
Inspired by a hike on the Trail of Cedars at Glacier National Park. :: Drawing :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Rea...
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2010s Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled (ID 1276) (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled (ID 1276) (Abstract Painting)
Oil and pastel on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonie...
Category
2010s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
P.M.C. Carrott - 20th Century Pastel, Sails at Bassenthwaite
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful pastel drawing by P.M.C. Carrott, depicting a landscape view of Bassenthwaite Lake, one of the largest water bodies in the English Lake District. Monogrammed to the lowe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Framed 20th Century Pastel - Holbeck Clock Tower, Scarborough
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a cream card mount and simple wood frame with gilt detail. Inscribed with the initials 'N.W' to the lower right. On wove.
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21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Joyce Moore - Contemporary Pastel, Landscape at Dusk
Located in Corsham, GB
Deep hues are used in a heavy manner to draw the eye into the distance of this playful evening landscape. Unsigned. On wove.
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21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Joyce Moore - Signed Contemporary Pastel, Portrait of a Man in Thought
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant palette is used in a gestural manner to depict a captivating portrait of a man deep in thought. The artwork holds a charismatic charm and is signed in the bottom right-hand...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled (ID 1289) (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled (ID 1289) (Abstract Painting)
Pastel on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that e...
Category
2010s Minimalist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Astral Planing: Contemporary Figurative Pastel
By Paula Humphris
Located in Brecon, Powys
Stunning pastel work by Paula Humphris a Cornish artist more well known now for her pottery. Signed and dated 1985.
Very evocative of the Art Deco Period. very pretty !
Image size ...
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1980s Art Deco Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Machias Seal Island Light
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Wolf Kahn was commissioned by the Smithsonian to design a postcard for them. He made four designs and they selected a singular one. This drawing here is one of the few rejected designs. This piece was given to the founder, David Barnett, of the David Barnett Gallery...
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19th Century American Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled 1513 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 1513 (Abstract painting)
Pastel on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerg...
Category
2010s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Yellow Nude with Blackbirds standing female nude black tree and bird background
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early work on a series of nude figures that have been part of the artist's extensive body of work. The pastel colors are strong and vibrant with extensive reworking . It i
s signe...
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1980s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Untitled (Pastel #2), Pastel with Ducks
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The artist;
Estate of the artist, until 2018
Exhibitions
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, The Art of John Pierce Barnes (1893–1954), June 28–August 30, 2009.
A native ...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"March to Bosque Redondo" Abstract Modern Figure Drawing of the Navajo People
By R.C. Gorman
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract modern figurative drawing by Native American artist R.C. Gorman. The work features a large group of faceless figures representing the Navajo people who were forcefully remov...
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1960s Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
French Pastel - Desert Terrian
Located in Houston, TX
Large French pastel landscape of vividly colored terrain depicted in bright and bold hues, circa 1970.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archiv...
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1970s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Portrait of La Goulue, " Auguste Grass-Mick, pastel, portrait, impressionist
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Paris, France in 1873, artist Auguste Grass-Mick apprenticed under lithography engraver Auguste Lemoine, the Dangler brothers and painter Georges Lavergne. A patron of Paris's cabarets, Le Chat...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Late 19th Century Pastel - Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
An oval portrait of a late-Victorian or Edwardian man with a slight scowl. Presented glazed in a cream mount and an ornate gold-painted wooden frame with substantial floral and folia...
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19th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
The Cathedral - Drawing by Marcel Guillard - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Cathedral is a drawing in pastel realized by Marcel Guillard (1896-?) in the early 20th Century.
Good condition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Preparation of poster “Flower Festival, Geneva”
By Henri Fehr
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Workshop stamp on the back of the work
Category
20th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pastel
Woman Kneeling with Flowers, Acrylic Paint and Pastel by Jose Canes
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jose Canes aka Dore, Spanish (1931 - )
Title: Woman Kneeling with Flowers
Year: circa 1975
Medium: Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, signed 'Dore' l.r.
Size: 25.5 x 19.5 in. (64....
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
Velvet Ensemble group of female performers hot red and soft yellow color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on red toned paper signed and dated on bottom left. Part of a series of music themes by the artist
Reminiscent of Botero and Diego Rivera
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephe...
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2010s Post-Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Three Old Oaks by Cornelia Fitzroy, Landscape, Nature drawing, Botanical
Located in Deddington, GB
Three Old Oak by Cornelia Fitzroy [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Pastel on Paper
Image size: H:23 cm x W:28 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:23 cm x W:28 cm x D:0.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Three Old Oaks is an original pastel drawing on paper by Cornelia Fitzroy. Cornelia FitzRoy is a Norfolk landscape plein air...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Signed Nude Pastel Drawing by Gerald Fairclough
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gerald Fairclough, American (1946 - )
Title: Nude
Year: 1977
Medium: Pastel Drawing, signed and dated
Size: 25 x 35 in. (63.5 x 88.9 cm)
Frame Size: 33 x 43 inches
Category
1970s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Practical Advice on Waiting, bright colors, domestic, Latin objects
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Works
Her pastel-on-sandpaper series, "Domestic Threats" and "Black Paintings", both use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly charged narratives.[9][10]
Rachko also has created a series of photographs entitled "Gods and Monsters".[11] In these chromogenic prints, she is "painting with a camera," creating variations that free the camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it. She prints all of these images by hand.
The earlier "Domestic Threats" pastel-on-sandpaper paintings used her West Village apartment or her 1932 Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. The "Black Paintings" series grew directly from "Domestic Threats". In the "Black Paintings," the figures (actors) take center stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. have been eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as she slowly builds up as many as 30 layers of soft pastel.
Her long-standing fascination with traditional masks progressed in the spring of 2017 when she visited the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia where one exhibition included more than fifty festival masks. The resulting series is entitled “Bolivianos”.[12]
She has also written an e-book, From Pilot to Painter[13] and writes a regular blog, Barbara Rachko...
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Early 2000s Fauvist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Shtetl Interior, Cheyder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel or Tempera on paper. Judaica Shtetl scene of village.
Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins.
h...
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20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Tempera
Seated Girl, Impressionist Nude Pastel Drawing by Jan De Ruth
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Seated Girl
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 15.5 in. x 11 in. (39.37 cm x 27.94 cm)
Frame Size: 24 x 19.5 ...
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1960s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
At Paulette's by M. Opériol - Drawing 32x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canton paper
Category
1970s Academic Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
End of lunch or Portrait of a young woman seated at a table
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN LOUIS FORAIN
(Reims 1852 - 1931 Paris)
End of lunch or Portrait of a young woman seated at a table, in front of a cup of coffee, probably Portrait of Marguerite Ch...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Little Island, Landscape Drawing, Nature Artwork, Tree Drawing, Botanical Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Little Island is an original pastel drawing on paper by artist Cornelia Fitzroy. Cornelia FitzRoy is a Norfolk landscape plein air artist who uses co...
Category
2010s Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Vintage Mixed Media American Cityscape Illustration c.1960s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Mixed Media Cityscape Illustration c.1960s
Late Fall or early Winter scene of an urban environment with figures, buildings, barren trees i...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor
Deddington Towards pipes Barn by Cornelia Fitzroy, Landscape Drawing, Original
Located in Deddington, GB
Dennington towards pypes barn by Cornelia Fitzroy [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Pastel on Paper
Image size: H:23 cm x W:30 cm
Comp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Village - Drawing by Edmond Dua - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Village is a drawing on paper realized by Edmond Dua (1865- ? ) in the early 20th Century.
Pastel on paper.
Monogrammed in pencil on lower.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditio...
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Early 20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Twenty-One Winter" Large Sublime Pastel River Landscape
By William McWhorter
Located in Houston, TX
Sublime landscape of mountains and a river dominated by dramatic clouds. Signed, titled, and dated along bottom edge of the work. Hung in a dark wood frame with a white matte.
Dimensions Without Frame:H 32 in x W 32 in.
Artist Biography:
A seventh generation West Virginian, McWhorter went to California in 1968. Upon returning from service in Vietnam, he enrolled in California State University. Here he began his quest to create the illusion of light on canvas by studying the works of the impressionists and hiking the Sierra Nevada region where the dazzling light plays on the atmosphere and the mountains. “I was clearly moved by the dynamic landscape of the Western States and became fascinated by the Hudson River artists...
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1980s Naturalistic Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Reclining Nude, Framed Original Modern Pastel Drawing on Paper by Moses Soyer
By Moses Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Reclining Nude
Moses Soyer, American (1899–1974)
Date: circa 1960
Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 9 in. x 10.5 in. (22.86 cm x 26.67 cm)
Frame Size: 16 x 17 inches
Category
1960s American Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Silhouettes. May, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Elena Done
Located in Yardley, PA
Silhouettes You can access artist’s inspiration from the celebrations, dance events, ferias, festivals taking place in AndalucÃ
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
1950s Judaica Rabbi with Shofar Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
UNTITLED (GREEN RABBI HOLDING A SHOFAR)
Signed S. I. Rusoff
Genre: Judaica
Subject: Religious
Medium: Pastel, Chalk
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions: 16 1/2" x 12 3/...
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1950s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Contemporary pastel colorful landscape trees grass forest scene signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Humming of Cicadas at Chenequa" is an original pastel drawing on Canson paper by Peggy Leonard. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece depicts a view into dense vegetation, likely the edge of a forest, in green, orange, yellow, and blue.
19 1/2" x 25 1/2" art
26" x 32" frame
Peggy Leonard received her BFA in painting and drawing and an associate’s degree in nursing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is both a registered nurse, and accomplished artist, residing in Milwaukee, WI.
From the artist:
“These paintings are my prayers,” muses Leonard, reflecting on her driving need to express herself through her art. “We are made of the stuff that requires us to respond with our hearts and hands. Often, it requires terrible sacrifice and suffering, something not everyone can understand. But it is done with reverence of life, not irreverence.”
Leonard’s pastels and oil paintings capture her reverence of life and reflect her own life’s journey, including earlier forays into the wilderness. Her venture into art began in early childhood, as childless neighbors nurtured her natural ability to draw; concurrently, Leonard’s parents instilled a respect for academic excellence and the higher order of nurturing others.
As a young nurse, Leonard “heard and saw poignant messages to travel while one was young and free…while one had one’s health.” Consequently, she took to the open road and public lands, camping across America for months at a time. During these years, her “celebration of the natural splendor of this country” helped shape her sense of artistic expression. She was moved by such sights as the sunset on St. Mary’s Lake...
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1990s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Couple at a Table, Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland
Title: Couple at Table (Self-Portrait)
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed u.l.
Size: 19.75 in. x 25.5 in. (50.17 cm x 64.77 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Heidi McFall (American, 20th century) "Tony #1" Original Pastel Portrait c.2000
By Heidi McFall
Located in San Francisco, CA
Heidi McFall (American, 20th century) "Tony #1" original pastel portrait, circa 2000
Outstanding pastel portrait by Texas / Idaho artist Heidi McFall.
Titled "Tony #1"
Dimensions ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a young woman, 19th Century Pastel
Located in London, GB
John Raphael Smith
1751 - 1812
Portrait of a Young Lady
Pastel on paper on canvas stretcher
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm)
Gilt frame
Category
Early 1800s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Shore Leave Mermaid mythical siren in beach setting bright colors
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is part of an ongoing series of mermaids a subject that has interested the artist for years. He is consistently searching for contemporary observations on a mythical subject tha...
Category
2010s Feminist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Prelude to Transition
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Prelude to Transition
Pastel on paper, 1953
Signed and dated lower left (See photo)
Image size: 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Frame size: 24-5/8 x 1-1/2 inches
Exhibited and Illustrated: Zimmerli Museum, 1988, "Benjamin Benno: A Retrospective Exhibition, Sept. 11-Nov. 20, 1988 (A copy of the catalog accompanies the work)
Catalog 82, reproduced page 25
Housed in a silk matting with a 22K gold leaf frame
Benjamin BENNO (1901-1980)
Birth place: London, England
Addresses: NYC, 1912
Profession: Painter, sculptor
Studied: Ferrer School, NYC, 1912-15, with Robert Henri and George Bellows; Beaux-Arts Inst., NYC, 1914-17, with Solon Borglum...
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1950s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
André MARGAT (1903-1999), "Orangutan"
By André Margat
Located in Paris, FR
André Margat is a French artist widely known for his representations of animals. He is a member of the « Groupe des Douze », an association of artists created in 1932 with the aim of...
Category
1920s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Abstract Policeman in Village - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
1950s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media
Anna I, Modern Nude Pastel Drawing by Gianfranco Fusari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian
Title: Anna I
Year: 2009
Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 8.3 in. x 19.7 in. (21.08 cm x 50.04 cm)
Frame Size: 18.5 x 29 inches
Category
Early 2000s Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Nose" Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract pastel drawing of a nose. The work is mainly blue, pink and orange tones. The work is framed in a light wooden frame with a white matte. The work is signed by H...
Category
1990s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Seated Nude, Pastel Drawing on Paper by Ben Benn
By Ben Benn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Benn, Polish/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: Seated Nude
Year: 1923
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 ...
Category
1920s Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Retrato femenino - Dibujo a pastel
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior
En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado y fechado del año 2005
Se presenta enmarcada la obra (el marco presenta algún leve...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Boulevard parisino - Dibujo a pastel
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior
Se presenta bien enmarcada la obra (no hay cristal para evitar posibles roturas del cristal en el transporte) y comentar que el marco pre...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
ACROBATS
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. ACROBATS. Ink, gouache, and pastel on paper, 1922. Signed, lower right. c. 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches; framed to 28 x 23 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches. In excellent condition.
Category
1920s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Gouache
Muchacha en una Cueva, Modern Pastel on Paper by Raul Anguiano
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raul Anguiano, Mexican (1915 - 2005)
Title: Muchacha en una Cueva
Year: 1973
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Paper Size: 20 in. x 26 in. (50.8 cm x 66.04 cm)
Category
1970s Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Light, Behind - Pastel Drawing by Mary Joan Waid
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mary Joan Waid
Title: Light, Behind
Year: 1996
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed
Paper Size: 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Frame: 40 x 31 inches (101.6 x 78.74 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
late 20th century still life oil painting with flowers and fruit signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Grey Pitcher" is a pastel still life by American artist Warren Brandt created in 1986. Warren Brandt is known for his still-life paintings being especial...
Category
1980s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Model Session – 23-01-24, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
A Kick-Off This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 23-01-24’ is the first I drew live since a long time. Probably last year I think and that was spring if I remember correctly....
Category
2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Berg en Dal – 30-12-23, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
What Color Can Do This pastel drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 30-12-23’ is the second of new pastel editions to an ever growing series. The one I completed last December 19th exceede...
Category
2010s Cubist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Golden – 13-12-23, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Pastel Again This pastel drawing ‘Golden – 13-12-23’ follows directly after my last oil painting ‘Cosmic Dance – 10-12-23’. Last time I made a pastel ‘Melina Noëlle...
Category
2010s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960)
New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight (Searching), circa 1930-40
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Spanierman Gallery, New York
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young man who was someday to be spoken of as showing promise of becoming "one of the greatest etchers of all time". Leon Dolice, born in Vienna on August 14, 1892, even as a young boy, preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, which exposed the boy to welding and metal crafts.
However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early twenties traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the Masters.
As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions metalworker, chef, designer somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring Twenties. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects.
With the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.
A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930's and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940's punctuated his career.
In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit.
Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
Category
1930s American Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Modern Abstract Blue and Orange Toned Mountainous Village Landscape Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract blue and orange toned landscape drawing by American artist Jane Tate. The work features a majestic mountain landscape with houses dotting the...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Color Pencil
One Peony, interior still life scene, green work on paper
Located in New York, NY
A’Court begins each painting with a broad, color plane—red, blue, pink or yellow—which acts as a table for the artist’s still life vocabulary. This practice allows her to contain the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Pastel drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Pastel 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 blue, orange, purple, 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 Stephen Basso, Howard Tangye, Corne Akkers, and Leo Guida. 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 Pastel 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 $893.
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