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Medium: Pastel
Portrait of Woman - Pastel Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original drawing in colored pastel by an Anonymous Artist of the XX century.
A pastel drawing on paper skilfully depicted a portrait of a woman, expression o...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
The Secret Ladder - Original Pencil and Pastel on Paper - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
The Secret Ladder is an original modern artwork realized in the Second half of the XIX Century by a French Artist.
Original pencil drawing and colore pastels on ivory paper.
Passep...
Category
1880s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
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...
Category
1980s Surrealist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel, Pencil, Graphite
Synchromist Tree, Pastel
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The artist;
Collection of Henry Dubin, Philadelphia until 2018
Exhibitions
Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Living Color Modern Life: Hugh Henry Breckenridge and Arthur B. Carles, October 5-November 2, 2018.
The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant colorist and an extraordinarily innovative painter. Though Carles trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, soaking up the more conservative teaching of William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz, he was deeply influenced by the avant-garde art scene in Paris during his first trip there in 1905. In 1907, Carles won the prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to return to Paris for several more years. This experience had a profound impact on Carles as an artist; he was extremely affected by modern French painting, especially the work of Cezanne and Matisse, and by the time Carles returned home to Philadelphia in 1912, he was a confirmed modernist.
This small landscape sketch was probably painted early during Carles's career, and yet, it already reveals his strong interest in abstraction. Indeed, Landscape Abstraction demonstrates both his daring exploration of lyrical color harmonies as well as his interest in two-dimensional surface design. Painted loosely in the spontaneous medium of watercolor, Carles used thin washes and delicate pools of paint to suggest the foreground area and surrounding trees. His color palette is rich and expressive, ranging from pale greens and blues to deep red, yellow, and even purple.
In addition to his remarkable career as an artist, Carles was also an incredibly gifted teacher. He taught at PAFA from 1917 to 1925 and had a very deep impact on a number of his students such as Morris Blackburn, Quita Brodhead, and Jane Piper...
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20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Crash Course, Original Signed Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Crash Course, Original Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Painting
8" x 8" (HxW) Pastel on Paper
Hand-signed by the artist.
This modern impressionist seascape features a square co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
small woman on a big chair, figurative, colorful, botero-like, pastel, paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...
Category
1980s Outsider Art Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Scene Fourteen: Kitchen, bright colors, domestic, Latin objects
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Price and size includes frames (maple wood with white mats).
Artwork 58" x 38"
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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2010s Folk Art Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
L'Étang Rivon (Forêt de Rambouillet) by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel
Located in London, GB
L' Étang Rivon (Forêt de Rambouillet) by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Three's a Crowd, whimsical colorful pastel on toned paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Three's a Crowd, whimsical colorful pastel on toned paper
A Brooklyn native, much of Basso's wildly imaginative artwork was inspired by travel to Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and especiall...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
La femme préhistorique (Prehistoric Woman)
Located in New Orleans, LA
James Tissot was among the most successful and critically acclaimed artists of the Victorian era. Although the artist is celebrated for his elegant scenes of fashionable life in Paris and London, this work is a fascinating rarity within his oeuvre. In this monumental pastel, Tissot depicts a prehistoric woman draped in a tiger skin, presented with a striking pose and heroic air. His delicate portraiture, combined with his fascination with conveying texture, demonstrates why he was one of the most revered artists of his generation, and La femme préhistorique illustrates the remarkable technique for which he was renowned.
This work was completed in preparation for a series of works exploring the Old Testament undertaken by Tissot from 1899-1902 that remained unfinished at the time of his death. A portion of this series focused on illustrations of Adam and Eve, and among these sketches were images of a nude Eve partially draped in animal furs. Towards the end of his life, following his conversion to Catholicism, biblical subjects became important to the artist. A few years before this work was completed, Tissot embarked upon a highly ambitious group of nearly 300 watercolors illustrating the New Testament, presenting the illustrated epic in its entirety at the Paris Salon of 1894. Both of these series were a critical artistic departure for the artist, stemming from a desire to create works separated from his typical images of modern society.
This pastel imagines Eve as the prototype of womanhood in the guise of a prehistoric woman. Tissot rarely painted the nude, and his skill as a draftsman highlights the figure's natural beauty, contrasting it with the stark landscape surrounding her. Although a study, this monumental work is incredibly well-finished and highly engaging, with the statuesque model commanding the majority of the canvas. Her pose is strong and theatrical, and she addresses the viewer with a direct, confident gaze.
The imagined historical subject of this drawing is grounded by Tissot’s exceptional attention to detail. A master of conjuring an array of textures, Tissot showcased this ability in this work by juxtaposing many types of fabrics and natural elements within one composition. The tiger skin with which the woman partially covers herself was a favorite studio prop of Tissot’s, appearing in many of his most influential works from the period, including several paintings of his partner and favorite model Kathleen Newton. It, in particular, showcases the artist’s understanding of texture, yet it also serves as an exotic element that elevates the sensuality of the scene when placed against the woman’s bare skin.
Born in 1836 in the port town of Nantes, Tissot traveled to Paris at the age of 20 in order to join the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. During this period, he became close with James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet, and the impact of these friendships is reflected in his portraits of modern life. Having enjoyed considerable success in Paris during the 1860s, Tissot fought in the Siege of Paris, and after the fall of the Commune in 1871, he went to London, where he stayed for the next ten years. He was met with incredible success there, and he also met the love of his life, Kathleen Newton, a divorcée, with whom he lived from about 1876 until her death in 1882. Today he is regarded among the great masters of Belle Époque painting, and his works can be found in important collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Musée d’Orsay, the Tate Gallery and many others.
This pastel remained in Tissot's private collection until his death in 1902 and is referenced in the posthumous 1902-3 valuation of Tissot's home at 64 avenue du Bois...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Canvas, Oil Pastel, Pastel
20th century landscape pastel drawing colorful grass path hills sky signed
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' is an original pastel drawing by American artist Wolf Kahn. The landscape is an exploration of color and light: it is rendered in cool blues and purples with fields of subtle yellow, the pastels treated with the same gesture as Kahn's paintbrush on a canvas. Indeed, this pastel was a study executed en plein air for a painting – the painting now sometimes called 'Bend in the River' – that he later created in the studio. This process of creating studies, selecting the best of the studies, and then recreating them as paintings was typical of Kahn's studio process and makes this pastel a significant example of the artist's creative output.
9 x 11 inches, artwork
15.5 x 18.13 inches, frame
Signed 'W. Kahn' lower right
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting. Housed in a gold finish wood moulding.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Wolf Kahn, the youngest of four siblings, was born into a well-to-do artistic family. His father was the conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Symphony, and his mother came from a family of art collectors.(1) During 1938, Kahn took his first art lessons, but most of his initial drawings were of military or historical events. The next year Kahn was sent to England for safety following the ascendancy of Hitler to power, and in 1940, he immigrated to the United States.
In 1942, he entered New York's High School of Music and Art, and while there, he was employed by a commercial art firm doing illustrations. After a stint in the Navy, Kahn entered Hans Hofmann's school, and among his fellow students were Neil Blaine, Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow and Larry Rivers. His initial results were done with a dark palette and abstracted forms, and although Hofmann's style of teaching was difficult, Kahn has consistently praised him for teaching him the value of control and understanding.(2)
Kahn's first exhibition was a 1951 group show in a loft with several other artists in lower Manhattan. From this impromptu show, a group effort evolved called the Hansa Gallery Cooperative.(3) In 1953, Wolf Kahn had a one-man show at this gallery, which was reviewed by Fairfield Porter, and at this same time bolder, more vivid colors began to appear in his work. By the mid-1950's, on a summer trip to Provincetown, Kahn's paintings indicated a new direction of softening warm colors in the manner of Bonnard. He was included in Meyer Shapiro's seminal exhibition, The New York School: The Second Generation at the Jewish Museum, and by the end of the 1950s, he had developed his abstracted landscape style for which he is best known.
In 1966, he made his first "barn" painting on Martha's Vineyard that reduced the complexities of detail of the architecture to a more basic shape, a stylistic convention that is evident in the Museum's painting. Kahn has since commented frequently on his use of color as a unique and specific component of each work as the situation demands, where the gradual buildup of the colors resembles the beauty and translucent nature of pastels.(4) Since then Kahn has had one-person exhibitions at the Kansas City Art Institute, Chrysler Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums throughout the United States.
Footnotes:
1. Much of the biographical information is drawn from Justin Spring, Wolf Kahn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
2. Spring, 21. Wolf Kahn draws this from a 1973 address to the College Art Association.
3. This group included Jane Wilson...
Category
1970s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
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 Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite
Portrait of Young African American Man in Yellow Rain Jacket
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This vivid pastel portrait features a young African American man wearing a bright yellow rain jacket. The artist’s use of pastel captures the jacket's luminous color with striking in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Sunday Drive, Original Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Pastel Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Sunday Drive, Original Impressionist Landscape Painting
8" x 10" (HxW) Pastel on Paper
Hand-signed by the artist.
Journey down a desolate road amongst a beautiful green landscape of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Georgian Contemporary Art by Shota Imerlishvili - Demon
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel, markers, charcoal on paper
Shota Imerlishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1991 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is graduated fr...
Category
2010s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker, Charcoal, Pastel
Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A pastel portrait of the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz against a vibrant red background
Sally Evans is an American artist that paints a wide range of subjects, focusing on landsca...
Category
1980s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portraits of the Hon. Mary Shuttleworth and Anna Maria, 9th Baroness Forrester
Located in London, GB
THE HON. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH, NÉE COCKBURN (D. 1777)
and her sister
ANNA MARIA, 9TH BARONESS FORRESTER (D. 1808)
Pastel and gouache on paper laid on canvas, on their original backb...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
This Morning (blue, red, floral, textured still life pastel on paper)
Located in New York, NY
34.5 X 35 Inches framed
This piece is featured in A’Court’’s 2024 solo exhibition at Susan Eley Fine Art titled, “Keeping Memories”.
Artist Biography:
A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Les ruban verts, 1897
Located in BLARICUM, NL
THEO VAN RYSSELBERGHE
Gent 1862-1926 Saint-Clair, Var
LES RUBANS VERTS
Portrait of Marquerite Mommen-Ithiers
1897
Pastel on paper
90 x 65 cm.
Signed and dated: lower right with mo...
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1890s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Framed 20th Century Pastel - Tower Bridge
Located in Corsham, GB
An atmospheric depiction of Tower Bridge, captured in a soft pastel haze of rain and fog. The impressionistic scene has been well presented in a wash-line mount and fine gilt frame. ...
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20th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled, Figurative, Pastel on Paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury : Untitled
Pastel on Envelop ; 7 x 5 inches ; 2016
Signed by the Artist.
Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury ha...
Category
2010s Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Contemporary Drawing "Blue Prayer" Draw, Pastel, Ink And Colored Pencils
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Drawing, pastel, Pencil, Petal Flowers, Color and Ink on Paper.
The base of this drawing is ordinary yellow paper of 80 gr. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
'Portrait of a Young Navajo', Native American, Arizona, California Woman artist
By Victoria Creech Stewart
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Creech PSWC' and created circa 1975
A compelling pastel study showing the subject dressed in brightly-colored ceremonial robes and gazing past the viewer. An eleg...
Category
1970s American Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio, Figurative painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio 2016, by Celso Castro
Crayon Pastel on archival paper
Image size: 60 H in. x 38 in. W
Unframed
On The back of the painting:
Abstract, 1986
Pencil a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pastel, Archival Paper
Untitled Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) .
Untitled. 1980.
Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 9 x 12 inches in original ...
Category
1980s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Parchment Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil
Untitled
By David Storey
Located in New York, NY
David Storey
Untitled, 1993
Charcoal and pastel
29 x 19 inches (sheet)
30 x 20 inches (frame)
Unsigned
Natural wood frame with light white wash. Floated in window opening. 1.5'' dep...
Category
1990s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
"Chimera" - pastel drawing, figure, skeleton, nude, bright colors, texture
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 17 by 14 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism....
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Draw, pastel, Ink and Colored Pencils. "First day in eternity."
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Drawing, pastel, Pencil, Petal Flowers, Color and Ink on Paper. The base of this drawing is 120g/m2 Fabriano paper. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree bark as t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily" - pastel drawing, figurative, surrealism
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 36.5 by 44.5 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surreal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
'Still Life of Tea Roses', Woman Artist, Gold Medal, PAFA, New York, ASL, NAD
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Laura Hills' for Laura Coombs Hills (American, 1859-1952) and created circa 1915.
Laura Coombs Hills first studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston, the New Y...
Category
1910s Naturalistic Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Postcard
Arm
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on paper
13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.2 cm.)
Signed (at lower right): Kupka
EX COLL.: private collection, St. Louis; to Howard Baer, 1972; [Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Galleries,
New York...
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20th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Under the Magnolia" - pastel drawing, nature, figurative, surreal, dream, dark
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 53.5 by 39 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Veil of Dusk, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Joanie Ford channels her love for sunrises and sunsets into this piece. Observing the shifting colors reflected on clouds and in the atmosphere, she docu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of Older Man with Trucker Hat
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This compelling pastel portrait depicts an older man wearing a well-worn trucker hat, capturing the character and stories etched into his face. The artist skillfully uses pastels to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Framed Contemporary Oil Pastel - Lemons in a Bowl
Located in Corsham, GB
Presented in a contemporary frame. Signed illegibly. On wove.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
SHIZEN SERIES IV
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES IV, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, purple, Abstract, contemporary, fine art
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her paintings and furniture reflect her infatua...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Pastel, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
1976 Pastel - Seductive Stare
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait in pastel showing a beautiful woman with a seductive gaze. The artist has initialed and dated in the lower right corner. The drawing has been presented in a contempor...
Category
20th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
1907 Pastel - Settling Dusk
Located in Corsham, GB
An atmospheric pastel landscape showing the glowing window of a cottage on the banks of a river, shining through the gathering dusk. The artist has signed indistinctly and dated to t...
Category
20th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Skeletype Grape, " Acrylic & Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Skeletype Grape" is an original acrylic painting and pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This artwork features an abstract portrait o...
Category
1990s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Found Objects, Acrylic
Sweet Seasons, Original Signed Impressionist Landscape Pastel Painting
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Sweet Seasons, Original Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Pastel Painting, 2020
10" x 10" (HxW) Pastel on Paper
Hand-signed by the artist.
An estuary depicted in a lovely light b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Looking North 2, " Orange Landscape Pastel signed by Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Looking North 2" by Janet Richardson-Baughman is a pastel drawing on paper, signed in the lower right corner. The work is framed and matted with acid-free mat board. This landscape ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Attrib. Johann Tischbein (1751-1829)- 18th Century Pastel, Maria Luisa of Parma
Located in Corsham, GB
A romantic late 18th-century pastel portrait, attributed to the German portraitist Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829). Exquisitely presented in its original giltwood frame...
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18th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Les Tilleuls de L'Avenue de la Mer by H. Claude Pissarro - Post-Impressionism
Located in London, GB
Les Tilleuls de L'Avenue de la Mer by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Warm Water, Framed Original Impressionist Seascape Pastel Painting on Paper
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Warm Water, Framed Original Contemporary Impressionist Seascape Painting
12" x 24" (HxW) Pastel on Paper
15.5" x 27.5" x 1" (HxWxD) Framed
Hand-signed by the artist.
A soft color palette of blues, greens, and purples is used to depict the clear ocean water as it begins to curl over, cresting into a subtle wave, just enough to make a satisfying crashing sound of water-on-water. The entire artwork is overtaken by the water of the sea, with no land or sky to divert your focus from the vastness of the ocean's depths.
Artist Commentary:
As an artist, I just love being able to take creative license and paint what my mood dictates. The photo reference for this painting was of New England waters and the day I painted this it is was cold and rainy. I was looking for warmth, not 20 degree temps! I took out my set of pastels that remind me of warmer climates and painted this in that palette. The luminosity of pastels really comes through in this painting and just like that, I'm transported under a palm tree watching...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled (ID 1276)
Located in London, GB
Oil and pastel on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intui...
Category
2010s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
Contemporary expressionist colorful gouache painting pastel flowers plants water
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Pond Dream #2" is an original pastel and gouache on paper by Victoria Ryan. This piece depicts a number of pond plants and flowers in bright colors and realistic detail.
31 1/2" x...
Category
1990s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
La Promenade by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing, Pastel, Charcoal, Landscape
Located in London, GB
La Promenade by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal and pastel on paper
49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 ⅜ x 25 inches)
Signed lower left, Manzana
Executed circa 1920
This work is accom...
Category
1920s Art Deco Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
"Jade", Figurative, Portrait, Acrylic, Chalk Pastel, Wax Pastel
By Chambers Austelle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative portrait drawing titled "Jade" is an original artwork by Chambers Austelle made of acrylic, chalk pastel, wax pastel. This piece measures 12"h x 12"w.
Chambers Austelle is a contemporary figurative painter and educator living and working in Charleston, SC. Austelle is best known for her compositions of vivid color and female subjects. The isolated environments challenge the viewer to question the way beauty and women are perceived in our culture.
Austelle’s work has been exhibited nationally and exists in many private collections. She was awarded Best in Show at The City Gallery for “Piccolo Spoleto’s 2016 Juried Exhibition”, as well as Charlie Magazine’s “50 Most Progressive”. Most recently, she was the 2018 recipient of St. Thomas’ Artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Acrylic
19th century color portrait pencil pastel female subject realism
By Constance de Rothschild
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lady Mary Stanhope" is an original pencil and pastel drawing by Constance de Rothschild. This piece depicts a woman facing to the right. The artist also cre...
Category
1860s Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Female Nude, Pastel and Chalk Study for a Sculpture
Located in Cotignac, FR
A chalk and crayon study for a scuplture by French female artist Marie-Josèphe Bourron. Presented in modern frame with mount under glass. Though not signed the drawing was acquired d...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pastel
Untitled (Jazz Scene) - Charlie Mackesy, Original Pastel, Musician, Instruments
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Untitled (Jazz Scene) is an original Charcoal & pastel drawing on paper by British artist Charlie Mackesy. Mackesy's clever work and style here give us a glimpse into this intimate &...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Snow scene by Hughes Claude Pissarro, Cantepie, Sous la Neige
Located in London, GB
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Cantepie, Sous la Neige by Hughes Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
51 x 37 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches)
S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Les Équipages de l'Allée Acacias by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel
Located in London, GB
Les Équipages de l'Allée Acacias by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
'Saint Jean No.5' Contemporary Fauvist Pastel.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary abstract expressionist drawing in pastel of a Provençal landscape by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed and dated to the bottom right and presented in a black c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
La Plage à Trouville by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
Located in London, GB
La Plage à Trouville by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 5/8 x 20 1/8 inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certifi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Side Profile of Asian Man with Ponytail
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This side profile portrait features an Asian man with a neatly tied ponytail, capturing a moment of quiet contemplation. The artist skillfully emphasizes the graceful lines of his pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
18th century portrait of the Royal Academy model George White
By John Russell
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Russell sale, Christie’s, 14 February, 1807: ‘John Russell, Esq., R.A. deceased, crayon painter to His Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and Duke of York; and brought from his late Dwelling in Newman Street’, lot 92, ‘St Peter’, bt. Thompson (£1.13s);
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25th September 1980, lot 113;
Private collection, UK, 2016.
Literature:
Martin Postle, 'Patriarchs, prophets and paviours: Reynolds's images of old age', The Burlington Magazine, vol. cxxx, no. 1027, October 1988, pp. 739-40, fig. 9;
Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures, Cambridge, 1995, p.136, repr.;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.64.2928.
Signed and dated: J Russell/ fecit 1772 (lower right)
Framed dimensions: 25 x 31 inches
John Russell was admitted to the Royal Academy in March 1770, at the same time as Daniel Gardner. The nascent Academy Schools were still establishing their teaching structures, but central to the syllabus were the twin components of drawing after the antique and from life models. By 1772 Russell had already been awarded a silver medal and progressed to the life academy, where he produced this remarkable pastel study of George White. White was the most famous model employed by the Royal Academy and prominent artists in the second half of the eighteenth century. A paviour – or street mender –by profession White had been discovered by Joshua Reynolds, who in turn introduced him to the Academy. Russell’s striking head study demonstrates his abilities as a portraitist and pastellist, at the same time showing his interest in the Academy’s preoccupation with promoting history painting.
George White was one of the most celebrated models in eighteenth-century London. According to the painter Joseph Moser:
'Old George…owed the ease in which he passed his latter days, in a great measure to Sir Joshua Reynolds, who found him exerting himself in the laborious employment of thumping down stones in the street; and observing not only the grand and majestic traits of his countenance, but the dignity of his muscular figure, took him out of a situation to which his strength was by no means equal, clothed, fed, and had him, first as a model in his own painting room, then introduced him as a subject for the students of the Royal Academy.'
As Martin Postle has pointed out, whilst characterful studies of old men posed as biblical figures, prophets or saints by Continental old masters were readily available on the art market – Reynolds himself had copied a head of Joab by Federico Bencovich in the collection of his friend and patron, Lord Palmerston - finding a model in Britain from whom to execute a painting was more difficult.
White therefore offered a rare opportunity for artists to combine portraiture and history painting, by painting a model in the guise of an historical or literary character. In 1771 Reynolds showed at the Royal Academy a picture of White entitled Resignation. It was engraved in 1772 and accompanied by a stanza from Oliver Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, implying a literary context to what is essentially a portrait. In his annotated Royal Academy catalogue, Horace Walpole noted: ‘This was an old beggar, who had so fine a head that Sir Joshua chose him for the father in his picture from Dante, and painted him several times, as did others in imitation of Reynolds. There were even cameos and busts of him.’ White sat to, amongst others Johan Zoffany, John Sanders, Nathaniel Hone and the sculptor John Bacon...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Model Session – 20-04-24 – 1, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Heater Troubles This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 20-04-24 – 1’ is the first I made during this month’s session. Last time we had a man posing for us. This time there...
Category
2010s Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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