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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Expressionist
Woman with Black Mantel - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by F. David - 1949
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Woman With Mantle is an original drawing on ivory glossy paper realized by Flor David in 1949.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower-left corner.
This is an original ink and watercolored drawing representing a very beautiful portrait of a woman wrapped in a black mantel...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Untitled - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper
Created in 2018 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The owner III - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper
Created in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Hampton Bays, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Hampton Bays (P6.24)
Year: 1958
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1950s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Women's World Magazine Cover Illustration , Children Sledding
Located in Miami, FL
Children Sledding, Women's World Magazine Cover, December 1939
Signed lower center image
watercolor, gouache, pencil, and wash on paper
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Letter (Large Black & White Ballpoint Pen Drawing of Civil War Soldiers)
Located in Hudson, NY
60 x 48 inches
black ballpoint pen drawing on cotton Arches paper.
Hung with two dark red powder coated aluminum bars.
This large, vertical black and white ballpoint pen drawing was made by Linda Newman Boughton in 2011. The dramatic yet modern drawing on strong cotton Arches paper is a depiction of a notorious photograph taken by Mathew Brady of three Civil War soldiers...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Fred Astaire and Diana Vreeland, Vanity Fair Magazine
By Robert Risko
Located in Miami, FL
Airbrush Illustration on paper
Signed Risko lower right
Blindstamp Upper Right
Published: Vanity Fair Magazine
Unframed
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Camille Hilaire - Nature - Signed Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Camille Hilaire - Nature
Signed Original Lithograph
Edition: 38 x 26 cm
Framed
Edition: 17/175
Camille Hilaire
(1916-2004)
Camille Hilaire began painting from a young age. At fif...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Antoniucci Volti - Torso - Signed Original Sanguine Drawing
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoniucci Volti
Torso
Dimensions: 64,5 x 50 cm
Sanguine
Signed on the lower Right
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
"Contemplation"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Face of Bearded Men, Pen and Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 9 x 7 inches (unframed size)
Pen and Ink on Paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
The exceptions are the faces such as the profiles of bearded men...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Paper
Contemplating Portrait in Yellow
By Beatriz Balen Susin
Located in Houston, TX
Portrait of a figure resting its head on its hand in a thinking position. Portrait is done on black paper using yellow chalk and acrylic paint. Artist signed the image in the bottom ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Acrylic
Pensive Dancer, Ink Drawing by Raphael Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raphael Soyer, Russian/American (1899 - 1987)
Title: Pensive Dancer
Year: circa 1956
Medium: Pencil on Paper, signed lower right
Paper Size: 8 x 5 inches
Frame: 11.5 x 9.5 i...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink
Woman with Red Jacket, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - )
Title: Woman with Red Jacket (P6.52)
Year: 1948
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1940s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mixed Media Portrait Painting of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
A mixed media painting of an older man deep in thought in black and white on a yellow background circa 1990s by Theadius McCall. Signed in lower right ...
Category
1990s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Crown, Double-sided Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - )
Title: Portrait of a Girl wearing a Crown (P6.35)
Year: 1957
Medium: Double-Sided Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1950s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Flowers (P5.40)
Year: 1960
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 21.5 x 15 in. (54.61 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pensive: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative painting by John Emanuel
By John Emanuel
Located in Brecon, Powys
Less is more from the studio of John Emanuel
Image 21" x 15"
Originally from Bury, in the North of England, John Emanuel works in Porthmeor, Cornwall. He has received no formal art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Vampire
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art...
Category
1950s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Portrait of Arab - Original Charcoal Drawing by Jean Plumet - Early 20th Century
By Jean Louis Plumet
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Arab is an interesting drawing realized by the French artist Jean Louis Plumet. It is in very good conditions, except for some tiny stains and a fold on the lower part of...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Woman Laughing - Original Pastel by Michel Simonidy - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman laughing is an original artwork by Michel Simonidy.
Mixed media, pastel drawing, and tempera on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Includes passepartout. St...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Friend in Pink
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Water color and mixed media work from master painter Courtney Reid
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
"Self Portrait"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Girl with Bonnet, Pastel Portrait by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999)
Title: Girl with Bonnet
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed u.r.
Size: 25.5 in. x 19.7...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
ART
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition Man of Extremes at Benjaman Gallery in Buffalo, NY.
Westley G. Olmsted (1934-2011) was a painter and sculptor. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and was a distant relative Frederick Law Olmsted...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Man With Beret And Lying Man - 1940s - Paul-Franz Namur - Drawing - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Man With Beret And Lying Man is an original artwork realized by Paul-Franz Namur in the first half of the XX century. Pencil on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the low...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Two Men Around a Table - 1940s - Paul-Franz Namur - Drawing - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Two Men Around a Table is an original artwork realized by Paul-Franz Namur in the 1940s. Pencil on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right margin. Passepartout and wood ...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch After Vincent Self Portrait No. 3
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition Man of Extremes at Benjaman Gallery in Buffalo, NY.
Westley G. Olmsted (1934-2011) was a painter and sculptor. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and was a distant relative Frederick Law Olmsted...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Lew Wallace (Large Black & White Ballpoint Pen Civil War Union General Portrait)
Located in Hudson, NY
60 x 48 inches
black ballpoint pen drawing on cotton Arches paper.
Hung with two dark red powder coated aluminum bars.
This large, vertical black and white ballpoint pen drawing was made by Linda Newman Boughton in 2011. The dramatic yet modern drawing on strong cotton Arches paper is a depiction of a notorious photograph taken by Mathew Brady...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen, Paper
Portrait of Woman in Hat, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - )
Title: Portrait of Woman in Hat (P1.1)
Year: circa 1962
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Philosopher - Original China Ink drawing by E. Berman - 1940 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed with the artist's monogram. Ink and watercolour on cardboard. Passepartout included.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Frieda, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Frieda (P6. 45)
Year: 1948
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1940s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - )
Title: Portrait (63)
Year: 1961
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 22 in. x 15 in. (55.88 cm x 38.1 cm)
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Isadora Duncan (Blue), " Pen, Ink, & Watercolor signed by Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Isadora Duncan (Blue)" is an original mixed media drawing created by Abraham Walkowitz. It is made with pen & ink, graphite, and watercolor piece on cream paper. The artist signed t...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
"Isadora Duncan (Orange), " Pen, Ink, & Watercolor signed by Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Isadora Duncan (Orange)" is an original pen & ink, graphite, and watercolor piece on cream paper by Abraham Walkowitz. The artist signed the piece in the lower center. The drawing d...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Portrait Sketch of Man with a Cane
Located in Houston, TX
Gorgeous and detailed portrait sketch of a man in a suit with a cane by artist C. Hallam in 1975.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
UNTITLED PORTRAIT
By John Heliker
Located in Portland, ME
Heliker, John. (American, 1909-2000). UNTITLED PORTRAIT. Ink on paper, not dated, likely 1930s. The image is of a man, likely a factory worker, seated, wearing a cap, leaning his face on one hand, with factory structures in the background. Signed, lower right. c. 8 x 8 inches 0n a larger sheet. In excellent condition.
Heliker was born in Yonkers and spent his adult life dividing his time between Manhattan, where he taught art for decades, and Great Cranberry Island...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of a Couple by M. Tarragona R. Drawing Signed and Dated in Mexico, 1948
Located in Pasadena, CA
A Beautiful portrait of a couple, probably a study for a painting.
Original drawing and watercolor signed by M. Tarragona R. ? and dated 1948 in Mexico.
With its origininal frame,
S...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
" Femme au serpent " Dar el-Hanch
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent ( 1936-2008 )
" Femme aux serpents " . année 1977.
dessin au feutre de couleur . original projet de la carte de voeux LOVE 1977 .
31 x24 cm .
Felt tip . unique ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Felt Pen, Ballpoint Pen
Madonna and Child - Orignal Indian Ink Drawing, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Tsuguharu (Leonard) Foujita (1886-1968)
Madonna and Child, c. 1950
Original India ink drawing
Signed lower right
On paper 33 x 24.5 cm at sight
Presented in a golden baguette frame ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Untitled
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
Tobey's work resembles Abstract Expressionism and Asian calligraphy.
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Dark Portrait by Otto Vautier - Charcoal 48x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1910s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait of Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Japanese Girl
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a man, an expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy
By László Moholy-Nagy
Located in PARIS, FR
This recently rediscovered expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy is part of a small group of drawings made by the artist early in his career, in Vienna and Berlin. The use of interlaced curves, typical of the artist's technique, gives this hieratic portrait a magnetic radiance, while the absence of any connection with the rest of the body evokes a profane Holy Face.
1. From Hungary to Chicago, the ardent life of László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy was born in Borsod, now known as Bácsborsód in Southern Hungary, in July 1895. He studied law in Budapest in 1913, when he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army to serve as an artillery officer on the Italian and Russian fronts. While serving at artillery observation posts, Moholy-Nagy was able to execute numerous drawings, recording his traumatic war experience, on the reverse of military-issued postcards which he could easily carry with him. In 1917, he was seriously wounded and hospitalized. The following year (around 1918 at the age of 23), he abandoned his plans to become a lawyer in favour of a career as an artist, with the encouragement of his friend, the art critic Iván Hevesy.
The drawings executed in those early years reveal Moholy-Nagy's powerful Expressionist lines. In his autobiography of 1944, Abstract of an Artist, Moholy-Nagy explained his early figurative style, writing that contemporary art in those days was too chaotic and that and all the '-isms' were incomprehensible and puzzling to him.
He was, however, experimenting with Dadaist compositions already in 1919 and then moved to Vienna and later to Berlin, where he would soon make his first works in his Constructivist style of the early 1920s.
In Berlin he met photograph and writer Lucia Schultz who became his wife the next year. In 1922 he met Walter Gropius. During a vacation on the Rhome with Lucia, she introduced him to making photograms on light-sensitized paper. Walter Gropius invited him to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923 where he replaced Paul Klee as Head of the Metal Workshop. The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists and Moholy-Nagy was no exception: throughout his career, he became proficient in the fiels of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, film-making and industrial design.
In 1928 Moholy-Nagy left the Bauhaus and established his own design studio in Berlin. He separated from his first wide Lucia in 1929. In 1931 he met actress and scriptwriter Sibylle Pietzsch. They married in 1932 and has two daughters, Hattula (born 1933) and Claudia. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, he was no longer allowed to work there. He moved his family to London in 1935. In 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus, but the school closed in 1938. Moholy-Nagy resumed doing commercial design work, which he continued for the rest of his life.
In 1939 Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design in Chicago, which became in 1944 the Institute of Design, becoming part of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1945, Moholy-Nagy died of the disease in Chicago in 1946.
2. Description of the artwork
This drawing presents us with a frontal representation of a man in his thirties, whose penetrating gaze seems to stare at us. The face is highly symmetrical and is modelled by curved black lines. The very high forehead and the slightly dilated left pupil reinforce the very expressive character of the face.
Like the Holy Face which appeared on the cloth stretched out to wipe Christ's face by Saint Veronica, only the model's face is represented on the cardboard piece. The curved lines that define the face, hollowing out the temples, the eyelids, the cheeks and the area around the mouth, create a kind of magnetic radiation around a median point located between the eyebrows.
In some respects, this face may evoke one of the most famous representations of the Holy Face: the extraordinary engraving by Claude Mellan...
Category
1910s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Cardboard
The Portrait - Drawing - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is an original drawing in China ink on paper realized by an anonymous artist in 1929, applied on a greyish Passepartout.
hand-signed, illegible, and dated on the lower....
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The imprisonment - Drawing - 17th century.
Located in Roma, IT
The imprisonment is an original China Ink Drawing realized by an unkown artist in 17th century.
Very good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (60x50 cm).
No si...
Category
17th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portugal, Young Girl with Fishes - Original color drawing, Signed
By Mily Possoz
Located in Paris, FR
Mily POSSOZ
Young Girl with Fishes, 1928
Original pencil and charcoals derawing
Signed bottom right
Dated 1928
On paper 42 x 34 cm at view (c. 17 x 13 in)
Presented in a wood frame ...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Color Pencil
Young Girl with Violets - Original Watercolor and Gouache Painting, Signed
By Mily Possoz
Located in Paris, FR
Mily POSSOZ
Young Girl with Violets, 1934
Original Watercolor and Gouache Painting
Signed bottom right
On vellum 62 x 34 cm (c. 25 x 12 in)
Very good condition, light defects at th...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
"Spiritual Self-Portrait" Watercolor, Ink, Portrait, Nude, Linear Grid, Colors
By Artis Lane
Located in Detroit, MI
"Spiritual Self-Portrait" is a portrait of the artist by the artist. She has presented herself nude gazing boldly and directly at the viewer not so much challenging, but inviting dia...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
Head of JYM III - 20th Century, Chalk and charcoal on paper by Frank Auerbach
Located in London, GB
Chalk and charcoal on paper.
Auerbach met Juliet Yardley Mills in 1956, when she was working as a model at Sidcup College of Art. He began to paint her the following year, and contin...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Woman in Theatrical Dress - Original Watercolor by Eugène Lacoste
By Eugène Lacoste
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on bottom right by Eugène Lacoste, the design of the Opera of Giuseppe Verdi.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created ove...
Category
1870s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor