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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Period: 1960s
Period: 18th Century
Portrait - Pencil Drawing by Tibor Gertler - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil drawing realized by Tibor Gertler in 1960.
Good conditions, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (60x40 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist on the low...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mercurio / Mercury
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, early drawing of the Roman god Mercury.
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, with a partial crown and shield watermark, 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (184x 123 mm) (matrix). In go...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Jacques Thevenet (1891-1989) Portrait of a man in the studio, signed Gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Jacques Thevenet (1891-1989)
Portrait of a man in the studio
Gouache on paper
Signed lower right
64 x 49 cm
Framed 77 x 62 cm, some damages to the frame as visible on the photographs
Jacques Thévenet was born in Montquinon 17 October 1891, in the family’s ancestral home, built by his great grand-father, Auguste Hugues Claude Thévenet, lawyer from Château-Chinon.
He had 3 sisters and lost his mother in 1895 when he was only four. His father Louis moved the family to Paris where he run a law practice.
Young Jacques studied at the Lycée Carnot and later attended the École de droit of the Sorbonne University. Simultaneously, he attended the Académie Julian, with several painters such as Amédée de la Patellière, Jean Crotti...
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1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Figure of Man - Original Pencil Drawing by Augustin de Saint-Aubin- 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Man is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807).
Good condition included a green and white cardboard passpartout (65x48 cm).
No signatur...
Category
Late 18th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
1769-1830
Portrait of a Gentleman
Pastel on paper
Mounted and gilt frame
Provenance
Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14!
This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards.
When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits.
Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
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1780s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Judy Garland Hollywood Film 1963 Costume Design Mid 20th Century Gay Icon Oscars
Located in New York, NY
Judy Garland Hollywood Film 1963 Costume Design Mid 20th Century Gay Icon Oscars
EDITH HEAD (1897-1981) Original costume design for the red dress worn by J...
Category
1960s Performance Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
French Boy in Bloomers
Located in London, GB
'French Boy in Bloomers', gouache on art paper (circa 1960s-70s), by Raymond Debiève. A young boy emerges from a beach cabana wearing a bloomer bathing costume that was still in use ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait Old Master, Joseph Vivien, Mme Silvestre, French Rococo, Pastel
By Joseph Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
The portrait shows Mme Silvestre.
Born in Paris, Silvestre was the daughter of Charles-Antoine Hérault and his wife Marie-Geneviève, who were her first teachers. In 1706 she married the painter Louis de Silvestre, moving with him in 1716 to Dresden. The couple's daughter Marie-Maximilienne became a pastellist. Silvestre died in Dresden, the year before her husband retired and returned to Paris. Her surviving pastels show the influence of Rosalba Carriera...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Portrait of Boy in a Chair
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'3D Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait, ' by Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Mixed Media
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 15.5" x 13.25" mixed media female portrait by artist Jeffrey Kronsnoble features the black and white profile of a women with a circular ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
Portrait of Raffaello / Italian School
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and ink on handmade, watermarked C & I Honig laid paper, 8 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches (226 x 170 mm). Signed illegibly in ink, lower margin. Scattered light creasing and surface...
Category
18th Century Italian School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Graphite
Male Portrait Sketched - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Male portrait Sketched is an original drawing on paper, realized around the 1960s by the great Italian artist and journalist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Black Permanent Marke...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Seaman in petticoat breeches and slops, smoking a pipe, carrying a carpetbag.
Located in Middletown, NY
English School, 18th century
Pen and black ink with gray wash on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 5 inches (238 x132 mm). 1/4 inch repaired loss, top center, to the left of the figure’s h...
Category
18th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Laid Paper, Pen
French Modern Drawing by Jean Hélion - Veil Homme
By Jean Hélion
Located in Paris, IDF
Veil Homme
1947
drawing
26,9 x 21 cm
Registered on the catalogue raisonné with inventory number : N°0252 cat. B
sold without frame
about Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 19...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
The Rabbis, Judaica portraits
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
the piece without the original frame measures 18X7.5 inchesThis is a wonderful watercolor by one of America's most treasured
artists, Chaim Gross. Throughout his lifetime Gross has gone through tragedy and a real test of faith however, he has the unique ability to focus and direct his expression to the most joyful and beautiful works of art, such as the present lot. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes. His acrobats, cyclists, and mothers and children convey joyfulness, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work
remained consistent with his Hasidic heritage, which teaches that "only in his
childlike happiness is man nearest to God."
Chaim Gross, born in Wolowa, Austria in 1904, was educated at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and at the Art Student's League in New York. Chaim Gross's work was greatly influenced by his experiences during a period of international conflict, World War II. He had moved to Kolomyya from Wolowa to get a better education, but the Germans came to occupy, killing, raping, and looting. Gross and his family were chased from one village to
the next. He wrote, "We were sleeping on roofs and in the fields, with the sound of cannon fire...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
'The Red Headdress' by W. Worms
Located in London, GB
'The Red Headdress', pastel on art paper, by W. Worms (circa 1960s). A beautiful woman with contemplative expression and tender eyes is exquisitely portrayed by the artist. The treat...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Parnassus after Raphael Vatican 18th Century Pen Ink Wash Drawing c. 1780
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Meinisberg, CH
The Parnassus after Raphael
• 18th century Pen and Ink Wash Drawing
• Later glazed wood frame, ca. 62 x 78.5 cm
• Mounted behind a modern arched matt...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
Modern Dancers
By Mick Micheyl
Located in London, GB
'Modern Dancers', pastel, ink and gouache on fine art paper by French artist, singer and sculptor, Mick Micheyl (1964). Two elegant young men are depicted in a graceful dancing pose, arms outstretched, their lithe bodies so agile and limber. Perhaps one of the dancers was her friend, Philippe, to whom the painting is dedicated on the bottom. The dedication says: 'For you Philippe, all my friendship'. Signed: 'Mick Micheyl'. The work has been newly framed and glazed after having been acquired in the S. of France. It is in fair vintage condition commensurate with age showing minor blemishing on the paper. Upon request a video of the piece can be provided.
Dimensions with Frame:
H 75 cm / 29.5"
W 61 cm / 24"
Dimensions without Frame:
H 56 cm / 22"
W 42 cm / 16.5"
About the Artist: Mick Micheyl (1922 - 2019) was born in Lyon and had a busy and rewarding artistic career as a singer, producer, reviewer, metal sculptor, artist. After having received training at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon she became a painter and decorator in the theatre but then commenced a career in the musical activities of a theatrical troupe. She won the ABC competition in Paris in 1949 with a song, Le Marchand de Poésie, which she composed herself. She then performed in many cabarets: L'Échelle de Jacob, Harlequin and Liberty's. In the 1950s she was one of the most important French cabaret singers of that period. One of her titles, 'Un Gamin de Paris', became one of the French standards and also performed by Yves Montand and Robert Clary...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Pastel, Ink
Reading the Newspaper - Ink and Watercolor Deawing by M. Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Reading the Newspaper (Original title: Leggendo il giornale) is an original drawing, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
'Medea', Jason's Enchantress, Greek Mythological Figural, Expressionist Woman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Peter Brandes' (Danish, born 1944) and dated 1964-1965. Titled, upper left, 'Medea' and bearing 2017 dedication in graphite, lower r...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Rococo Portait, French Rococo, Marie Baudouin, Daughter of Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in Greven, DE
Portrait of the daughter of Francois Boucher, Marie-Emilie Baudouin, holding a basket of flowers. Pastel on Parchment. The work is related to an oval portrait painting...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
18th Century Pastel - Rebecca
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming portrait captures Rebecca, daughter of John and Mary Davis of London at a desk writing with a quill. Her fine dress with lace embellishment...
Category
18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
School of Athens after Raphael Vatican 18th Century Pen Ink Wash Drawing c. 1780
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Meinisberg, CH
The School of Athens after Raphael
• 18th century Pen and Ink Wash Drawing
• Later glazed wood frame, ca. 62 x 78.5 cm
• Mounted behind a modern arch...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Young Woman with a Parasol and a Bouquet of Flowers- attr to R. Tissot-1950/60s
Located in Roma, IT
Young woman with a parasol and a bouquet of flowers is an original contemporary artwork realized by Roland Tissot in the 1950s/60s.
Oil on Canvas.
Signed Tissot on the lower right ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
18th Century Sanguine Drawing, La Naissance de Louis XIII, After Rubens.
Located in Cotignac, FR
18th Century French Sanguine drawing, possibly a preparatory sketch for the painting by Nattier after the painting by Rubens. Presented in shaped 'marie-louise' mount in plain gold wood frame with collection label.
The subject is the Queen Marie de' Medici seated on a grand throne, the baby is in the arms of Health while Justice looks over him. Fecundity brings a cornucopia of fruit with the heads of the other children the Queen will bear. The Sun rides his chariot across the sky to indicate that Louis XIII was born in the morning and the calm figure of France surveys the whole scene.
An engraving exists (see the Wellcome Collection) of this same image: 'The birth of King Louis XIII', after the engraving by B. Audran the younger after the painting by Jean-Marc Nattier after the oil painting of Peter Paul Rubens in the Louvre 'La Naissance du Dauphin (future Louis XIII) à Fontainebleau, le 27 septembre 1601'.
Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766) was a French painter. He was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire.
He received his first instruction from his father, and from his uncle, the history painter Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717). He enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1703 and applied himself to copying pictures in the Luxembourg Palace, making a series of drawings of the Marie de Médici painting...
Category
18th Century Baroque Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Chalk, Paper, Clay
Nude - Watercolor Painting by Leo Guida - 1961
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor realized by Leo Guida in 1961.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and historical te...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Man and Woman - Pastel Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Man and Woman is an original pastel drawing on cardboard paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Signed "...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Female Figure - Drawing by Sergio Barletta - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figure is an original drawing artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1960s.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin.
Good conditions (some stains and light yellowing of paper).
Included passport, 49 x 34 cm.
Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, who has also published some humorous and political satire books.From the age of 22 is active in Rome, where he worked as an illustrator and art director in some monthly magazines like “Costume”, Diners Club house organ, BP Review, IBM, and others.In 1965 started the joint-working with Marino Gallery in Rome, and in 1966 in Milan with Humour Graphic’s group, at Levi Gallery and others in the following years.In these years graphic work and illustration are mixed with painting and photography, also with satirical drawings...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
'Study of a Woman', Danish Modernist Grisaille, Greek Mythology, Roskilde
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Peter Brandes' (Danish, born 1944), dated 1969 and stamped, lower right, with the artist's chop mark. Bearing artist dedication to 'K...
Category
1960s Cubist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Kids
Located in London, GB
'The Kids', pastel on paper (1967), by Raymond Dèbieve. Picasso's influence is undeniable in this artwork yet Dèbieve's own naive artistic style is on display ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Seated Girl
Located in New York, NY
ROBERT GOODNOUGH
Seated Girl, 1961
Charcoal Drawing on Paper
23 3/4 × 18 inches
Hand signed in charcoal on the front
Unframed
Unique
This is an exquisite, rare poignant early Robert ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Woman - Watercolor by Nicola Simbari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing mixed media on paper realized by Nicola Simbari in 1960 ca.
With a design of a figure on the rear in pencil.
In good conditions
Nicola Simbari (San Lu...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study of a girl sitting and reading a book
By William Hoare
Located in Bath, Somerset
A study in red chalk of a girl sitting and reading a book. Red chalk on paper under glass in a giltwood and gesso frame. This small drawing has a sense of intimacy in the capturing of a moment where the sitter is seemingly unaware of being observed, unlike the feeling of formailty and self-awareness in a staged portrait sitting
Provenance:
Private collection, Somerset
With J. Davey & Sons Ltd, Liverpool
William Hoare...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Glass
Sketched Portrait - Charcoal by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Sketched portrait is an original drawing on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait of Lady, 18th Century English Pen and Ink
By Ozias Humphry
Located in London, GB
Ozias Humphry
1742-1810
Portrait of Frances Abington
Pen and brown ink
Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches
Giltwood frame
The actress Frances (Fanny) Barton, better known as Mrs. Abing...
Category
18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Ink
French Art, Rococo, Portrait Queen Marie Antoinette France, Oval, Circle Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
French School, Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Pastel /oil Pastel on Paper, Rococo, 18th Century. The Pastel is made in the style...
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
Ink Drawing of a Man Courting A Woman Signed by B. Koller dated 1796
Located in Hallowell, ME
Ink Drawing of a Man Courting A Woman Signed by B. Koller dated 1796.
This 18th Century Ink Drawing of a Man Courting A Woman is Signed by the Swiss artist B. Koller and dated 1796.
This is an oval shaped drawing of a couple in a landscape.
This antique ink drawing...
Category
1790s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract Composition - Original Charcoal on Paper - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized the second half of the XX Century.
Original black Charcoal on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lo...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Portrait - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Leo Guida - 1963
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1963 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored pa...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Study for the Murder of Marat - China Ink Drawing - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Study for the Murder of Marat (Studio per l'uccisione di Marat) is the original black ink and black marker drawing on paper, realized in 1968 by Gian Paolo Berto (Andria, Italy, 1940...
Category
1960s Synthetic Cubist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1965
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original artwork realized in 1965 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original charcoal drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on cardboard.
...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Landscape - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1968
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original artwork realized in 1968 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original pastels drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on cardboard ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original artwork realized in 1970 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed on t...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress - 18th Century Watercolour
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
John Downman
1750-1824
Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress
Pencil, stump and watercolour, heightened with white chalk, signed and dated 1784
Imag...
Category
18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Leo Guida - 1963
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1963 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored pa...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Woman - Drawing on Paper - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing, realized by Anonymous artists of the XVIII century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good, but with extensive foxing.
The artwork represent...
Category
18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
La Mezzana - China Ink by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
La Mezzana (The Mizzen) is an original drawing on paper, realized around the 1960s by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Original black Chin...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Sailors in Marseille
Located in London, GB
'Sailors in Marseille', gouache on art paper, French School (circa 1960s). Ever since the 6th century, there have been fishermen selling their catch in the Old Port of Marseille while sailors from visiting vessels have always enjoyed a night on the town. Today the Old Port is the city’s beating heart, a vital part of Marseille. In this work, the artist depicts a solo French sailor crossing paths with his American counterpart. The Frenchman sports his cap with iconic pom pom rouge while the American sailor is dressed in his white 'Cracker Jack...
Category
1960s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait - Pen and Watercolor by Sergio Barletta - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in watercolor and pen realized by Sergio Barletta in 1960.
Hand-signed on the lower right and dated.
Included a Passepartout:45 x 38.5 cm
In very g...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
18th century portrait drawing of the Rev. William Atkinson
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950);
Private collection, UK to 2019
Framed dimensions: 14.50 x 15.38 inches
This drawing is one of only two known portrait drawings by Romney (as opposed to preliminary studies for portraits) and is dated by Alex Kidson as being executed no later than 1769. It is likely that the present drawing was originally part of a sketchbook, now largely dismembered (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal), which Kidson notes, contained some of Romney’s most beautiful early drawings. This drawing, and a second sheet formerly with Andrew Wyld, have been identifying as depicting the Rev. William Atkinson...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mission Impossible Original TV Guide Drawing Illustration Caricature Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
"Mission Impossible" Original TV Guide Drawing Illustration Caricature Mid Century NYC with Greg Morris, Barbara Bain, and Steve Hill. This original drawing...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
Smoking Man - Charcoal and Watercolor Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Smoking Man is an original drawing on paper, realized around the 1960s by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Charcoal and watercolor drawing...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Matador 3 - Mixed Media Drawing by Leo Guida - 1964
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Matador 3 is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1964 by the italianartist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017)
Original china ink, tempera and watercolor drawing.
Label on the back
...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Watercolor, Ink
Male Portrait Sketched - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Male portrait Sketched is an original drawing on paper, realized around the 1960s by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Black fountain pen ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
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 Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Mid-Century Portrait of an Elegant Woman (unfinished)
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of an elegant woman by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Yeager work directly from the estate. This piece...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Clown Portrait #8
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "Blake" in the lower left corner. Unframed.
Marjorie May Gulley Blake wa...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Portrait of a Young Man Original Charcoal and Pastel French 18th Century
Located in London, GB
French School
18th Century
Portrait of a Young Man
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Image size: 11 x 7 inches
Contemporary gilt frame
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
