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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 19th Century
Shining by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x21cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Shining (2023) cm 21x21, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x26,5 cm.
This work is a one-of-a-kind pi...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Pleasure by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x21cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Pleasure (2019) cm 21x21, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x27 cm.
This work is a one-of-a-kind piece. It is unframed. Hand-signed by the artist in the bottom center and on the back.
The work Pleasure is part of a series of small colorful unique drawings.
Certificate of authenticity included.
This colored drawing conveys pleasure, enjoyment, joy, and the three figures convey a feeling of happy contentment. The colors used for this colorful design are green, ochre, blue, white, orange, yellow, red.
About the artist
Annemarie Ambrosoli is an award-winning artist, the following are her most recent awards:
- Collectors Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
The Sermon on the Mount – French School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and ink with wash on watermarked J Whatman 1814 paper, 11 x 8 1/4 (280 x 210 mm). Scattered minor edge losses at the left sheet edge, well outside of image area. Minor handling w...
Category
19th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Woman in thought and Child: the page boy intriguing 19th Century Master drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
A virtuoso charcoal sketch by the Frech 19th Century master Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1904). It depicts a thoughtful woman (or woman in thought?) with her face resting on her hand...
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Late 19th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Love is in the Air by Annemarie Ambrosoli Color Pencil Abstract Expressionist
Located in Kiens, BZ
Love is in the Air (2019) cm 21x21,5, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x27 cm.
This work is a one-o...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Rainbow by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x22cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Rainbow (2019) 21x22 cm, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli,is a colored pencil drawing framed with a black passepartout, that measures 29x27 cm
©Annemarie Ambrosoli
This work ...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Singing by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x22cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Singing (2023) cm 21x22,5, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x26,5 cm.
This work is a one-of-a-kind ...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Thinking by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x21cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Thinking (2023) cm 21x21, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x27 cm.
This work is a one-of-a-kind pie...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Reminiscence by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x21cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Reminiscence (2023) cm 21x21, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x26,5 cm.
This work is a one-of-a-ki...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
c.1834 Watercolour - Little Boy Holding a Flower
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely painted portrait of a young boy dressed in a fine blue suit with a lace collar. He holds a large flower, possibly foxgloves. Well presented in a dark wood frame with gilt sl...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
H.J Snell - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Ready with the Axe
Located in Corsham, GB
A characterful watercolour portrait of an elderly man in work clothes, posed with a splitting maul in hand. The watercolour has been signed and dated to the lower right. Well present...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century Watercolour - Man In A Green Cravat
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 19th Century miniature portrait, showing a handsome young man in a fetching green cravat with pink bow tie. The painting is unsigned and presented ...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early 19th Century Charcoal Drawing - Daydreaming
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming charcoal study depicting a woman in classical dress looking up with a distance, dreamy look. The artist captures the woman using delicate cross hating to highlight the con...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
David Hardy (act.1835-1870) - 1868 Watercolour, Sisters
By David Hardy
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 19th century watercolour, showing an older sister, holding her younger sister in her arms as the two embrace with soft smiles. The artist has signed and dated to the lower...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Late 19th-Century British School, Portrait Study Of A Woman, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century British portrait study depicts a lady wearing a black hat with a veil. It’s an intriguing little mystery.
With an enigmatic expression, she peers back across ...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1844 Watercolour - Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate portrait of a gentleman in a red velvet waistcoat smoking a cigar. The artist has captured his striking face and bright blue eyes with fine detail. Well presented in an or...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Late 19th Century Watercolour - The Watercress Seller
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate portrait of a young watercress seller holding a wicker basket of cress. These street sellers were common during the 18th and 19th centuries and would sell to workers early...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
V. Clarke - 1853 Watercolour, Collecting Water
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming mid 19th century study of a mother holding her child while she collects water from a well. The woman stands barefoot on the rocks b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Peasant Women
Located in Corsham, GB
A subtle watercolour portrait of a peasant woman in profile. Presented in a reeded gilt frame with wash-line mount. Signed and dated, 1989. On paper.
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed 19th Century Watercolour - Fisherman in Red
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour portrait of a broad shouldered fisherman, striding along a sandy shoreline in black boots, buckled shorts and a bold red blouse. Finely mounted in a contempora...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Young Lady Seated', Royal Academy London, PAFA, Queen Victoria, King Edward VII
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'C. J. Turrell' for Charles James Turrell (British-American, 1845-1932) and dated 1876.
Framed dimensions: 12 x 1 x 10 inches
Charles James Turrell was one of the most talented miniaturists of his age. Born in London, he studied under a Mr. Sargeant, perhaps Frederick Sargeant who exhibited at the Royal Academy, before visiting the United States in 1867 where he painted miniatures at the studio of photographer Napoleon Sarony. During this time, Turrell had distinguished sitters including members of the Vanderbilt, Whitney, and Morgan families. While in America, Turrell married and would go on to maintain successful careers in both New York and London where, in 1869, he opened a studio on Bond Street.
Turrell exhibited widely and with success including annually at the Royal Academy (1873-1904), the Society of Miniaturists (1873 – 1932), the Brooklyn Art Association (1868), the Pennsylvania Academy of Art (1901) and at the Paris Salons. His sitters included Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, and Queen Alexandra, when she was Princess of Wales (1884). In 1890, he was appointed official miniature painter to Queen Victoria. Turrell's work is held in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace as well as in the permanent collections of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, London's Victoria & Albert Museum and the Mount Vernon Collection in Washington D.C., among others.
Reference:
E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 13, page 863; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 3, page 3354; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1935, page 444; The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, J. Johnson and A. Greutzner, 1980 Edition, Antique Collectors’ Club 1976, page 511; Dictionary of British Miniature...
Category
1870s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
A Study of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Graphite Sketch
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 5 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches (14 x 52 cm)
Framed
This sketch is a portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
c.1865 Watercolour - Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Price
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate watercolour study of a young girl named to the reverse as Mary Elizabeth Price (1858-1917). She carries a selection of flowers in her apron and wears a pretty pale pink dr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed 19th Century Watercolour - Portrait of a Scholarly Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
A detailed graphite and watercolour portrait of a 19th century gentleman, seated at a writing desk with an open book and inkwell. The gentleman can be seen wearing a black tailored s...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Emily Scott - 19th Century Watercolour, Lady in a Lace Bonnet
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour portrait depicting a Victorian woman seated in an armchair. She wears a lace bonnet that is clasped under the chin and a long black dress with puffed sleeves. ...
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19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
English School Mid 19th Century Watercolour - The Field Worker
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine 19th-century watercolour study of a pretty young woman harvesting hay. In her hands, she holds a large scythe and a bundle of hay. Well presented in an ornate gilt effect...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Man with Shovel
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This painting depicts a man standing confidently with a shovel. This is an American School, likely Hudson River School drawing from the 1860s or 1870s. This 19th century unsigned painting...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Face Explosion 1 (1 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Face Explosion 4 (4 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Portrait of a Young Duke, 19th Century French Chalk Drawing
Located in London, GB
Black chalk, white smudge and highlights, on paper
Image size: 10 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (27.25 x 14.5 cm)
A half-length portrait of a young Duke wearing a long wig with his head turned...
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19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
"Portrait 1" Drawing 23" x 17" inch by Oleksandr Miroshnychenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait 1" Drawing 23" x 17" inch by Oleksandr Miroshnychenko
Unique work
ball pen, spray paint, paper 300g
ARTIST BIO:
Oleksandr Miroshnychenko lives and works at his studio in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Ballpoint Pen
Face Explosion 2 (2 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Portrait of a Girl in Profile, Watercolour Painting, 1884
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1884 top left
Image size: 11 x 8 3/4 inches (28 x 22.25 cm)
Original gilt frame
This is a late 19th century portrait of a girl in profile, wea...
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1880s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Female faces
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
Pastel chalk on textured paper, Series of 20 unique pieces. 100cm x 70cm x .05cm - framing option available.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
ES I - Birds Eye View of New York City, Original Acrylic & Ink on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale
ES I
acrylic and ink on paper
30h x 22w in
76.20h x 55.88w cm
PKV018
Abstractions, such as color, to me or or mood, don't really enter the f...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
ES II - Birds Eye View of New York City, Original Acrylic & Ink on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale
ES II
acrylic and ink on paper
30h x 22w in
76.20h x 55.88w cm
PKV019
Abstractions, such as color, to me or or mood, don't really enter the ...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Man sitting in the studio - Thinking about art -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur (1828 Ludwigsburg - 1901 Munich). Man sitting in the studio. Watercolour painting, 43 x 27 cm (visible size), 73 x 53 cm (frame), monogrammed at lower right, estate stamp.
Upper right corner neatly repaired, small tear in the wall to the left of the sitter.
- Thinking about art -
About the artwork
The sitter, an elderly man, is seated in a studio on a pedestal reminiscent of an academy hall. The earthy, dark tones give the scene a weighty quality. The lightest tones are found in the incarnate parts of the figure, which do not stand out from the other colours of the picture, but are linked to them. As a result, the sitter's face is both part of and the highlight of the colour references in the picture. The colour of the sitter's skin is reflected in his pink coat, while his white-grey hair matches the colour of the wall next to him. This almost monochrome wall surface, in turn, is connected across the portrait to the framed picture standing on the floor, which seems to have been erased by this correspondence with the empty wall surface. Through the palette, which is positioned directly behind the sitter's head, the reference to painting, which is already given by the studio space, is explicitly linked to the sitter, who thus seems to be contemplating the question of the meaning of art.
This raises the question of whether Faber Du Faur, who had become lonely in his old age, might have painted a self-portrait here in his later years. In addition to the studio setting, the sitter's explicit reference to the palette and the fact that the picture was part of his estate, the only summary elaboration of the body suggests a self-portrait, while the representation of the face is concretised with the wide-open eyes typical of a self-portrait. This concentration on the face gives the impression of the artist's melancholy introspection, captured by the palette and related to the meaning of painting, whose dark character is reinforced by the concealment of the palette hanging on the right of the picture in the light tones so characteristic of Faber Du Faur. In the course of this resignation, Faber du Faur advises his son Hans, who has also become a painter: "Promise me one thing: never move to Munich, they'll kill you here!"
Whoever the sitter may be, the references to painting make the portrait a resigned self-contemplation by Faber Du Faur, focused on art.
About the artist
After leaving school, Otto Faber du Faur entered the service of the Württemberg army, at the same time cultivating his artistic talent. In 1851, on the recommendation of his father Christian Wilhelm, who was himself a battle painter, he spent six months in Munich as an apprentice to Alexander von Kotzebue. In 1852 he was granted a year's leave of absence from military service to study battle painting in the studio of Adolphe Yvon...
Category
1890s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Man Seated (Oyster Catchers, Thames Estuary 1932)
Located in New York, NY
Billy Childish (b. 1959, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom; lives and works in Whitstable, Kent) is known for his introspective, autobiographical, and deeply emotional paintings, writing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"Pretty Girl" Figurative Painting, Vibrant, Nude, Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 10 in x 13.5 in, Framed 17 in x 21 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Gene - Stylized Baseball Card of Chicago Cub Gene Cline, Original, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale
Gene
acrylic and ink on paper
24h x 19w in
60.96h x 48.26w cm
PKV017
See What I See
Why are Chicago and baseball so perfect for each other? ...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Ink
Face Explosion 3 (3 of 4 suite) 9x12 inches on paper
By Nina Bovasso
Located in New York, NY
When I begin my explosion paintings these initial marks and forms tend to get buried under the accretion of marks compiled to form the work. In this suite of 4 works I began with a f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Greg G - Stylized Baseball Card of Chicago Cub Greg Gross, Original, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale
Greg G
acrylic, ink, colored pencil on paper
24h x 19w in
60.96h x 48.26w cm
PKV015
See What I See
Why are Chicago and baseball so perfect f...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Enchanted" Watercolor on Paper, Figurative Nude Portrait, Forest, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 30 in x 22 in, Framed 35 in x 28 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was bor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"Ocean Beach" Figurative Painting, Beach, Landscape, Watercolor, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 22 in x 31.5 in, 28 in x 37 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was born in Novosibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Man Standing (Oyster Catchers, Thames Estuary 1932)
Located in New York, NY
Billy Childish (b. 1959, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom; lives and works in Whitstable, Kent) is known for his introspective, autobiographical, and deeply emotional paintings, writing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
"Dreaming by the River" Figurative Drawing, Nude, Vibrant, Watercolor, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 24 in x 18 in, Framed 29 in x 23 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was born in Nov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jairo- Portrait. Watercolor and ink on archival paper drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jairo, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza
Watercolor and ink on archival paper
Image size: 53 H in. x 36 in. W
Unframed
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Carbon Pencil
Canray and BoisSec (figurative drawing, Creole musicians, rural, fiddle player)
By Susan Kiefer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer
Canray and BoisSec
Pastel on paper
Year: 2004
Size: 19x25in
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1664
Framed pastel portrait of beloved Creole musicians Canray Fontenot and BoisSe...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"In Love With Summer" Portrait, Beach, Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 11 in x 14 in, Framed 17 in x 21 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was born in Nov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Happiness is a Butterfly" Portrait, Beach, Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 18 in x 24 in, Framed 22 in x 31 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was bor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled (Double-Amputee with Gun)
By Marcel Dzama
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Double-Amputee with Gun)
Signed, l.r.
Ink, watercolor, and root beer on paper
12.5 x 9.75 inches, image
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Sketch of a head - Carved in stone -
Located in Berlin, DE
Emil Faesch (1865 Basel - 1915 Basel). Sketch of a head. Charcoal on painting cardboard, 60 x 47.5 cm (folio size), signed and dated at lower right "E. Faesch. 1888.".
Minor browning.
- Carved in stone -
About the artwork
The life-size head has an immensely present presence. This effect is due to the fact that Faesch took his cue from academic classical...
Category
1880s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper - Germany
Located in Soquel, CA
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper
Drawings of a man at a desk and other figurative sections by an unknown artist (19th Century). On the left sid...
Category
1880s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
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Hand-signed on the lower and ...
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Paper
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Smell of Spring (2023), 17 x 43 cm, acquarello su carta Fabriano 600 g, dipinto dall’artista contemporanea italiana ©Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA, International Certified Artist)
Il dip...
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Il dipinto ...
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