Pencil Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Original pencil drawing signed by the Artist on the lower left corner.

The artwork is in simple black frames behind glass. The full signature is on the back of the drawing. Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at the Un...

Italian painter Silvia Pavarini is known for her distinctly feminine artworks that resonate with the quiet whispers of nature. Each piece she creates embodies an ongoing dialogue wit...

Donna Schuster (1893-1953) “Nude Bathers” watercolor, pencil and gouache within a giltwood carved frame and protective glass. Signed ‘Donna Schuster’ (Lower Right), circa 1920-1930. ...

Title: French Watercolor of "Bordeaux: Le Grand Théâtre" by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed Size: 10.25 x 14.25...

Claudio Bravo (1936-2011) is a renowned Chilean artist, best known for his meticulous hyperrealist artworks. Bravo is celebrated for his intricate precision which captures his distin...

Nude of little girl is an original pencil and pastels drawing on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of the Early 20th Century. In very good condition...

A graphite drawing on Yupo.

"Summertime", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series. Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube. Artist Statement "I started by ...

Watercolour and Chinese ink on paper, signed and dated (upper right), 10cm x 17cm (30cm x 38cm framed). George Barbier was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Born in Nantes, France on 16 October 1882, Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and ballet costumes...

Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him. The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...

Celestial Leaves: A Dance of Blue and Light Jewelry Design circa mid 20th century by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917) original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper unframed lef...

Graphite and grayish ink wash on bluish wove paper, 7 x 10 1/2 inches (177 x 265 mm) (matrix). Scattered surface soiling, adhesive residue, dog-eared corners, and scattered edge tears along left margin, outside of image area. Paper is braced on the verso with two pages from a mid 19th century book with illustrations by C.Perrin. One image depicts a scene of a group of soldiers representing the Holy Roman Empire...

Pair of Two Gold Rings with Diamond Pendants Jewelry Design circa mid 20th century by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917) original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper unframed l...

This Drawing has a sketch on the reverse as well as handwritten notes, one of which reads "On loan from the Freddy Wittop's private collection." Costume designer Freddy Wittop won a Tony Award for his work on "Hello, Dolly!" and was also the recipient of a TDF Irene Sharaff...

Donkey and figures is a drawing artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in early 20th century. Pencil and china ink on paper Good condition with foxing and stain on margins. The t...

This is the actual drawing that was used for the 1975 "Manhattan Coloring Book" David Edward Byrd created some of the most memorable Classic Theatre and Rock and Roll images from the 1960s and 70s. David created ALL of the Art for Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, including their Program covers and Rock posters, the art for Jimi Hendrix’s first Fillmore East appearance, The Rolling Stones 1969 World Tour art, The Who’s Performance of Tommy at the New York Metropolitan Opera House and The Fillmore, and The Grateful Dead Swell Dance Concert to name only a few where all created by David Edward Byrd. He also created the poster art for the original location of the 1969 Woodstock music festival . His memorable images were also used for classic Broadway shows like Godspell, Follies and Jesus Christ Superstar to mention only a few. These museum quality drawings are rarely made available for sale, they are not only wonderful rare works of art, but are truly historically important works in the field of Theatre and Rock and Roll collecting. It has been framed with archival double matting. David Byrd's poster art is in many museum collections, including : The Louvre, in Paris, Victoria & Albert in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Smithsonian in Washington, DC. In 1975, The New York Times commissioned Superstar artist David Byrd to create the "Manhattan Coloring Book" It was to be a coloring book for adults featuring NYC landmark...

Untitled IV, 1992 by Enrique Grau Graphite on ight cardboard Image size: 17 in H x 14 in W Frame size: 32 in H × 28.5 in W × 2 D in Signed and dated in th...

Mid 20th Century drawing and watercolour of Rue St Rustique in Paris. The drawing is titled and signed bottom left but the signature is as yet undeciphered. Unframed but with a cut card mount. A charming view of one of the oldest streets in Montmartre and Paris leading up to the iconic Sacré-Coeur Basilica. The artist has captured all the charm of this treasured view. They have shown a mastery of their art and wonderful handling of the drawing and watercolour. A lovely evocative painting that would grace any collection or interior. This street in the old village of Montmartre, which existed before the eleventh century as a path, later became an alley that served as a boundary between the seigneuries of Saint-Denis and Montmartre. Called "rue Notre-Dame" around 1516, it is indicated on the map of Jouvin de Rochefort of 1672 as a road. It was classified as part of the Parisian road network by a decree of 23 May...

Horse's Head is an original pencil drawing on paper, attributed to Luigi Galli and realized in the late 19th Century. With another drawing of hands...

Title: Original French Anatomical Equine Study of the Role of Tendons Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014) Medium: Pen, Acrylic and Pencil on paper Size: 18.5 (Height) x 13.25 (W...

Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986) Four Ideas for Sculpture Signed and dated ‘Moore/81’ (lower right) Pencil, watercolour, crayon, charcoal and ball point pen on paper 24.5 ...

'Scarlet Dreams'. Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ Exploring the flux and balance in the nature of all things, 'Scarlet Dreams' captures an essence of the equ...

Title: French Watercolor Painting of Sarlat-la-Canéda, Place Peyrou by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed Size: 10...

Women illustrators were alive, well, and quite active in the early 20th century. Most of their production was associated with topics that dealt with the home, children or fairy tales. In this masterfully rendered work in pen and ink, Jacobs displays great technical skill in presenting three maidens dressing a beautiful female member of the Court wearing a tiara. Signed in a cartouche lower right From: Stella Mead, Great Stories from Many Lands, London: James Herbert and Co, 1936, page 78 " Red and White Roses" Provenance: Chris Beetles Work is elegantly matted and not framed. Helen Mary Jacobs was born in Ilford, Essex, the sister of the writer W.W. Jacobs; she studied art at the West Ham...

Original mid-century illustration for the children's book "Good Work" by John G. McCullough, Young Scott Books, N.Y. It depicts a busy harbor filled with commercial and leisure traffic. Notice all the charming little people, busy at work - dotting the docks and boats. Ipcar masterfully designed the work so that your eye effortlessly travels from more prominent foreground elements to more minor elements in the distance. But her color scheme limited only to two colors sets "Harbor Scene" apart from the humdrum and elevates it to a sophisticated children's book illustration. The suspension bridge in the back of the composition is modeled after the Golden Gate. The illustration bears the hallmarks of modernism with its flat shapes and quick painterly style. "Harbor Scene" represents the artist's early style. By the '60s and '70s, her work began to take on a new direction with intricate patterns and depicting animals. Signed lower right with the artist's label on verso. Dahlov Ipcar...

Pencil and watercolour on paper Paper size: 10 x 14 inches Framed size: 20 x 23.75 inches Initialled lower right

Starlight and Feather Pendants Symbols of Grace and Strength Jewelry Design circa mid 20th century by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917) original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing p...

Raoul DUFY Normandy : Animated Beach and Sailboats in Saint Address Original pencil drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 30 x 42 cm at sight Presented in a golden baguett...

Title: Mid Century French Portrait Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper Size: 24.5 (height) x 19 (width) Stamped: Verso Condition: ...

SERGE FERAT 1881-1958 (Le Comte Sergueï Yastrebzov) Moscow 1881-1958 Paris (Russian/French) Title: Study for Batavia (The Woodcutters), circa 1926 Technique: Original Pencil D...

Pencil Sketch of a Man with Cigarette pencil drawing on artist paper painting: 9 x 6.5 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: very good and sound condition Descri...

Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass.. Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch. Career Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1] Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5] In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7] After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...

Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...

Children Amongst Foxgloves - Female Illustrator of The Golden Age by a female illustrator of The Golden Age Watercolor on paper, signed 'A. Bowerley' lower left. 11 x 20 in. (sight)...

D. Tongen "Orange, Brown, Black" 1980s 11.75"x10" Soft pastel and pencil on paper Signed in pencil lower right

Untitled III, 1984 by Enrique Grau Graphite on paper Signed in the top right corner. Great condition. Provenance: Private collection. Image size: 12 in H ...

Sketch of a woman's head in profile Graphite on paper, c. 1900-1910 Unsigned Condition: Excellent Tiny tear upper right near hinge (repaired and bearly visible) Sheet size: 4 5/8 x 3...

Santi Moix Consilience, 2009 Crayon and pencil on paper Signed and dated 2009 in crayon on the front Unique Frame included Provenance: the Artist and Kasmin Gallery This exquisite, u...

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...

In this contemporary artwork in graphite and acrylic on canvas with layered undulations in shades of gray on a white background, Margaret Neill investigates the properties of abstrac...

Nikolai Suetin (Russian: Николай Суетин; 25 October 1897 – 22 January 1954) was a Russian Suprematist artist. He worked as a graphic artist, a designer, and a ceramics painter. Suet...

Erotic is an original pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in 1930s. The little drawing is in good condition on a yellowed paper. On the back the stamp of the collection by Comtesse Anna Laetitia...

Work on paper without frame

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...

This 7.75" x 7.75" graphite on paper framed drawing is by Haley Prestifilippo. This graphite work presents a striking contrast between detailed and abstract elements. In the upper le...

Luigi Serra (Bologna 1846 - 1888), Portrait of Attilia Marini Mixed media drawing on paper 32 x 26 cm signed, dedicated to Attilia and dated "February 17, 1887" lower right.

'Dinosaur Me & Baby' abstract composition, mixed media on soft board, Japanese ink, oil, pencil and gouache by Erez Yardeni (2018). The scribblings of a c...

Portrait of a man at Flanders in 1918 by Eduard Dollerschell (German b. 1887 d. 1946.) Beautiful and delicately rendered portrait of a man done in gouache, pencil, and conte crayon....

Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) is one of the most accomplished and versatile Canadian artists. She achieved a level of commercial and critical success in her lifetime that was exceptional for a woman during an era in a male-dominated field. Notably, she was the first female artist to have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery (Ottawa) in 1971 and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) in 1987. Although Wieland was an artist who was always drawing, she launched her career as a painter. Always experimenting, her art practice expanded to incorporate a range of media and materials, from textile works to film. In New York City, she was best known as an experimental filmmaker. In the mid 1960s Wieland began to embrace more representational and narrative elements in her work. Inspired by comic books, and her background in film as an animator, Wieland embraced figuration albeit clearly influenced by Pop Art. One of the reoccurring motifs in Wieland's oeuvre is playing with and subverting icons of femininity. In this work Wieland presents icons inspired by the French Queen Marie-Antoinette: a jewelry or hat box, a hairbrush, a medallion. The artist seems to be willing to give a make-over to the Queen. In the "nice medallion painting...

Title: Original French Anatomical Study of a Horse's Leg Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014) Medium: Pen and Pencil on paper Size: 20 (Height) x 13.25 (Width) Signed: No Conditi...

'Portrait of Reposing Nude', pencil on fine art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger ...

Brown and black chalks and pencil on cream wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil, lower left recto.

English School Bernard, Self Portrait 1950s Pencil and sepia chalk on paper Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24 x 34.3 cm) Handmade contemporary frame This imaginative self-portra...

Original drawing by Elizabeth McGhee Elizabeth McGhee (b. 1985, Southern California) completed her BFA in 2009 at the Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA. She continu...

Reclining nude woman covering her face from the viewer. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Ple...

Landscape is a Pastel and Watercolor drawing realized by Pierre Courtois in the 1960s. Hand-signed. The Artwork id represented through strong strokes. Good conditions with slight ...

'Gratitude and Grace (Worn out Blue Jeans and Hydrangeas in September)' Original Artwork, Unframed _____________________ Early Autumnal nostalgia, hazy light on pillows of fading hy...

Mid Century French Portrait Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided Size: 9.75 (height) x 9 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good P...

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...