Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Watercolor on paper without frame

A charcoal portrait drawing of a young woman. "The emotional intensity found in Bauman’s figurative work is astounding. A hallmark of Bauman’s character portraits is that, somehow,...

A charming late 19th-century watercolour depicting a tender moment between husband and wife. Presented in a gilt frame with a beaded inner. Unsigned. On card.

This large scale charcoal on paper is from the artist's series "These fragile truths". This body of work explores the limitations and aesthetics of human memory through portraitu...

The Couple is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1970. Hand-signed in the lower margin. Good condition on a white paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 198...

Portrait of a Lady is a Pencil Drawing realized by Hermann Paul. Hand signed on the lower left corner. Passpartout included cm 51x35 Good condition. René Georges Hermann-Paul (27...

Sketches is an original Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition except for some spots on a white paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil....

A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design. The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...

Working with a palette of graphite, charcoal, ink, and gold leaf, Alessandra Maria masterfully weaves together elements of the earthly and ethereal. She is part sorceress, part alche...

This interesting seated woman pencil study is by French artist Wouyart (20th Century). This unique representation captures the model's expression through trace lines and shadows that...

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...

Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...

A miniature English School portrait of two children holding a loving embrace. Well presented in a charming bird's-eye maple frame with internal gilt slip and glazing. Unsigned. On pa...

Fernando Botero Torero, 1989 Colored markers on paper 12 x 8 1/2 in Provenance: Allegrini Piero, Brescia. Galleria Panantu Casa de'Aste. Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. August 5 - Sep...

A wonderful 1824 preparatory drawing for a published work satirizing the famously ill-mannered 10th Hussars. 1842. Pen and ink with watercolor on watermarked J Whatman 1824 paper, 9...

Two exquisite mid 19th Century miniature portraits in watercolour. The children are in their finest clothes to have their portraits painted. The little boy wears a high ruffled collar and black jacket, holding a blue book in his hands. The little girl wears a fine light blue dress...

Young Lady in Profile (Dorothy Gibson) Graphite on paper, c. 1915 Signed lower right (see photo). The sitter for this drawing, along with a huge number of Harrison Fisher’s works, i...

The Lady is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in pencil. Hand-Signed on the lower. Vey Good conditions. Pierre-Georges...

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889–1962) was a renowned French painter and engraver, celebrated especially for his portraits of elegant women or, more precisely, a feminine figure in a styl...

A very finely detailed silhouette in very good condition by one of the truly great silhouette artists of the Georgian period. John Field (1758-1821) Portrait of a young gentleman Watercolour with bronze touches on plaster 3 x 2½ inches, oval, without the frame 6 x 5 inches with the frame John Field was one of the most famous of silhouette artists. He began his career as an assistant to John Miers...

Ink and gouache with gold heightening on brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in black ink, 12 5/8 x 8 9/16 inches (320 x 217 mm). Toning, handling creases and minor sc...

Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Maccari in the mid-20th Century. Hand signed lower left. Very good condition except for a minor burn in the top left edge.

'Man Smoking Shisha in Istanbul', watercolour on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1933). So many historic elements grace this stunning depiction by celebrated French artist and world trave...

Oil pastel on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Includes a coeval wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 59x68.5. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Ab...

Natacha Rambova imaginatively conceives and sketches a costume for Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 movie Fool's Paradise: Paramount. Rendered in Gouache, watercolor, pencil, and metallic s...

A fine English School miniature portrait of a Victorian lady wearing a delicate lace bonnet with roses in her hair. Well presented in a 19th-century miniature frame with an acorn han...

The Accordion Player is a drawing artwork realized by a French Artist in mid-20th century. Pencil on paper Good conditions.

Black marker drawing realized my Mino Maccari in 1950s. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.

Distorted figure in a fiery landscape. Presented in a modern white frame. Inscribed 'Louise McClary' to the reverse. On paper laid to card.

Lovers is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century. Charcoal drawings. Good conditions.

A fine mid 19th century watercolour copy of Rembrandts original Tronie self portrait, depicting the young artist wearing a gorget and beret. Unsigned. The painting is well presented ...

Dionis Baixeras i Verdaguer (1862-1943) - Docker - Charcoal drawing Drawing measurements 58x43 cm. Frame measurements 74x59 cm. Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer (Barcelona, ​​1862-1943),...

Portrait of woman on a light blue pattern dotted with white daisies "Angela" by Ransome 2023 graphite, acrylic and collage on panel 8 x 8 x 2 inches, unframed Piece can be hung attra...

Isidore Pils (Paris, 1813 – Douarnenez, 1875) Study of a Woman Holding a Bowl Red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff paper 36.3 × 26.5 cm (14 ¼ × 10 ⅜ in.) Unsigned Prove...

Alfredo Opisso Cardona (1907-1980) - Jota - Pastel Measures work 46x36cm. Frame measures 65x55 cm.

This is a hand painted oil and mixed media artwork on canvas by internet sensation mad charcoal He is represented by Krause Gallery NYC Ships rolled in ...

Wonderland Tale - Fairy Tale - Female Illustrator - The work is meticulously rendered in an exacting technique of line to the point of wonderment. Yet, Baxter can obtain an ethereali...

This elegant oval portrait captures a handsome Prince Albert, seated in profile. The artist has captured the sitter with meticulous detail, delicately rendering the subject's facial ...

'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 ...

A charming early 19th Century miniature portrait of a kindly looking gentleman in a smart black jacket and wing collar shirt. The portrait is unsigned and presented in a traditional ...

An early example from pioneering Female Cartoonist/ Illustrator Edwina Dumm, who draws a comic strip from her long-running cartoon series Tippie which lasted for almost five decades. Signed and dated Edwina, 9-25, matted but unframed. Frances Edwina Dumm (1893 – April 28, 1990) was a writer-artist who drew the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie for nearly five decades; she is also notable as America's first full-time female editorial cartoonist. She used her middle name for the signature on her comic strip, signed simply Edwina. Biography One of the earliest female syndicated cartoonists, Dumm was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and lived in Marion and Washington Courthouse, Ohio throughout her youth before the family settled down in Columbus.[1] Her mother was Anna Gilmore Dennis, and her father, Frank Edwin Dumm, was an actor-playwright turned newspaperman. Dumm's paternal grandfather, Robert D. Dumm, owned a newspaper in Upper Sandusky which Frank Dumm later inherited. Her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, was a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, and art editor for Cole Publishing Company's Farm & Fireside magazine. In 1911, she graduated from Central High School in Columbus, Ohio, and then took the Cleveland-based Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Her name was later featured in Landon's advertisements. While enrolled in the correspondence course, she also took a business course and worked as a stenographer at the Columbus Board of Education. In 1915, Dumm was hired by the short-lived Republican newspaper, the Columbus Monitor, to be a full-time cartoonist.[2] Her first cartoon was published on August 7, 1915, in the debut issue of the paper. During her years at the Monitor she provided a variety of features including a comic strip called The Meanderings of Minnie about a young tomboy girl and her dog, Lillie Jane, and a full-page editorial cartoon feature, Spot-Light Sketches[3]. She drew editorial cartoons for the Monitor from its first edition (August 7, 1915) until the paper folded (July 1917). In the Monitor, her Spot-Light Sketches was a full-page feature of editorial cartoons, and some of these promoted women's issues. Elisabeth Israels Perry, in the introduction to Alice Sheppard's Cartooning for Suffrage (1994), wrote that artists such as Blanche Ames Ames, Lou Rogers and Edwina Dumm produced: ...a visual rhetoric that helped create a climate more favorable to change in America's gender relations... By the close of the suffrage campaign, women's art reflected the new values of feminism, broadened its targets, and attempted to restate the significance of the movement.[4] After the Monitor folded, Dumm moved to New York City, where she continued her art studies at the Art Students League. She was hired by the George Matthew Adams Service[5] to create Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a family strip following the lives of a boy Cap, his dog Tippie, their family, and neighbors. Cap's grandmother, Sara Bailey, is prominently featured, and may have been based on Dumm's own grandmother, Sarah Jane Henderson, who lived with their family. The strip was strongly influenced by Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dumm’s favorite comic, Buster Brown by Richard F. Outcault. Dumm worked very fast; according to comics historian Martin Sheridan, she could pencil a daily strip in an hour.[6] Her love of dogs is evident in her strips as well as her illustrations for books and magazines, such as Sinbad, her weekly dog page which ran in both Life and the London Tatler. She illustrated Alexander Woollcott's Two Gentlemen and a Lady. For Sonnets from the Pekinese and Other Doggerel (Macmillan, 1936) by Burges Johnson (1877–1963), she illustrated "Losted" and other poems. From the 1931 through the 1960s, she drew another dog for the newspaper feature Alec the Great, in which she illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm. Their collaboration was published as a book in 1946. In the late 1940s, she drew the covers for sheet music by her friend and neighbor, Helen Thomas, who did both music and lyrics. During the 1940s, she also contributed Tippie features to various comic books including All-American Comics and Dell Comics. In 1950, Dumm, Hilda Terry, and Barbara Shermund...

This beautifully executed drawing fits squarely within Twitchell’s broader body of mural-related works. He is celebrated for meticulously crafted preliminary drawings that serve as b...

A charming watercolour study depicting a young Edwardian lady seated in garden. She holds a dainty teacup close to long cream coloured dress with a lace ruffled collar. Signed to the...

Profile of Woman is a Charcoal drawing on paper realized by an unkown artist in the early 20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower, illegible. Good conditions with some foxing.

La Traviata - Dancer of the Bohemian Ballet - 3rd Act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). Mixed colored gouache on ...

Portrait of Man is a drawing in pencil realized by an Anonymous french artist active in the late 19th century and in the early 20th. Signed on lower right but unreadable. Sheet dim...

Posing Male Nude is a drawing artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in the mid-20th century. Black ink on paper. Signed by the artist, illegible. Good conditions and aged.  

Artist/Designer: Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019) Marking(s); notes: marking(s) Materials: paper Dimensions: approx. 12.75"h, 10"w (159 images) Additional Information: Fashion design sketc...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage and me...

Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...

Homme assis et personnage is a pencil drawing realized by Alberto Giacometti on a page of Louis Guilloux's "La merveille", published in "Les Lettres Nouvelles", n°7, septembre 1953, p. 779. Giacometti sketched a male portrait in his typical style. The man is in profile and on the right side of the page there is a small study of a standing figure. Following Fondation Giacometti, it was realized by the author on September 1953. As James Lord...

A finely painted watercolour portrait of a 19th century gentleman wearing a tailored black suit with white cravat. Presented in a gilt frame with bead course. Unsigned. On paper.

"Judy Garland" Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) Judy Garland 20 x 15 inches (sight) Etching 26 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches Framed...

Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...

Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink, 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (340 x 222 mm). Toning, handling creases and...

Study of a Seated Figure pencil drawing on artist paper painting: 11 x 8.25 inches double sided provenance: private collection, England condition: very good and sound condition

Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...

Fernand de Launay (1838-1904) Portrait of a child, probably the daughter of the artist Lead pencil on paper Signed and dated "4 septembre 1890" on the lower left 27 x 21 cm In quite ...

"The Famished Vampire" (2024) by Timothy Von Rueden is an original handmade graphite drawing that depicts an imprisoned vampire, who's hands are bound and has a cage on his head.

Portrait of Woman is an original drawing in china and water color on paper by an Anonymous Artist of the XX century. Sheet dimension: 65 x 49 cm The state of preservation is good. ...